Colleges use e-mail to acknowledge receipt of applications, notify students about missing materials and send acceptance letters.
If participants do not attend a session they will be sent any missed materials and, where possible, the session will be held over the telephone by one of the facilitators.
Small holes have been bored in each one and the missing material sent off to a lab at UC Irvine for detailed chemical analysis.
For any test-taker who was aware that the missing material did not count on the score and who completed the test, it will not be necessary to retake the examination, Mr. Noeth said.
If the answer is no, find out what is missing and immediately get the missing material to the college.
Officials declined to elaborate on the contents of the missing material, except to confirm that it involved sources and methods relating to weapons proliferation, including data gathered from satellite intercepts, and human and electronic sources.
Episodes 4 and 5 of The Dominators originated from a foreign broadcaster and had been slightly edited; the missing material was subsequently restored, either from copies held by private collectors or through the discovery of censor clips.
The methodology is illustrated with simulated data and implemented to measure the thickness of missing material hidden within engineered samples.
Members of Dr. ElBaradei's staff and outside experts cautioned that the amount of missing material remained relatively small.
