Mr. Long said firefighters had regularly conducted "familiarization drills" at the building but had never faced a fire so high up in a high-rise under construction with a dry standpipe.
Correction: January 4 , 2001 Thursday An article yesterday about Colin L. Powell's familiarization meetings at the State Department referred to a precedent incorrectly in citing the interest of policy experts about how a crisis in Central Africa might be handled by the first African-American secretary working with an African-American as White House adviser on national security.
Even though I did that, I was STILL required to shoot a firearms qualification course AND attend weapons familiarization training at least once a year.
Throughout the spring and fall approximately 22,000 air cadets participate in familiarization gliding at regional gliding centres located across the country.
The experiment was performed during 28 calendar days including a 5 working days familiarization period at the beginning.
To avoid learning effects, the twins underwent six familiarization sessions, at least 72 h apart, for all strength and functional tests.
Each subject completed a familiarization session at the start of the season during the initial data collection and functional movement assessment, consisting of five trials of each of the three tests.
Recently, these software tools were used to develop prototype lessons in foreign language and cultural familiarization for use at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.
After five familiarization trials performed at submaximal intensity, all subjects executed three maximum voluntary contractions (MVC) over 5 s, interspersed by ~1 minute of passive recovery.
A one-way repeated-measures ANOVA was used to compare IPT obtained during familiarization sessions and at the first trial of the experimental session in order to identify possible familiarization and learning effects.
