In New York, the number of "proficient" scores dropped by about 30 percentage points in 2013, its first year of testing.
Mr. Trent said annual reports on testing of the East End wells listed 24 chemical breakdown products in 1998, the first year of testing under the 1996 law.
Based on this first year of testing with these two devices, NDVI measurements were not useful as an early indicator of cucurbit powdery mildew.
Major League Baseball is scheduled to start punitive drug testing this season, after more than 5percentt of its players' tests were found to be positive for steroids last year, the first year of testing.
* Major League Baseball, which has labored under suspicion that some of its star players were using steroids, said that in the first year of testing for the drug more than 5percentt of players' tests were positive.
Major League Baseball, which has labored for several seasons under suspicion that some of its star players were using steroids, said Thursday that in the first year of testing for steroids more than 5percentt of players' tests were positive.
In the first year of testing, in 1999, under the Elementary School Proficiency Assessment, 76percentt of the district's fourth graders scored proficient or above in math, compared with 60percentt average statewide.
The first year of testing saw an upsurge of Russian trawlers in the vicinity of St Kilda, but Rockall was of little consequence – at least until the prospect of oil and gas fuelled competing nationalist claims.
The officials testified in March 17 , 2005 about the use of banned substances and pointed to a significant decrease in positive tests for steroids in 2004 over 2003, the first year of testing, as evidence that baseball's drug program was working and that Congress did not need to intervene.
Howman also explained that a "suspicious" test would be one that might alert drug-testing authorities to possible drug use, but probably would not be so far out of bounds that it could be considered a "positive". Because 2001 was the first year of testing for EPO, Howman noted that all lab directors likely would have been very cautious about reporting tests as positive.
