Before the official sea trials, dockside trials are held for the preliminary testing of main and auxiliary machinery.
Mr. Brown of Applied Environmental said the preliminary testing of the mail at the Fed did not give any indication of whether anthrax was present in trace amounts or larger quantities.
These assessments are based on witness accounts, medical results from Syrian civilians who may have been exposed to chemical agents who were treated in Turkey, and preliminary testing of soil samples taken from Syria.
She was selected to represent the department at the conference because her unit had been involved in preliminary testing of the Smart Policing app this year and she was the only officer from that group who speaks English.
Apache, which maintains that its methods are "safe and proven," promises not to drill within the town's boundaries or beneath the state park that contains the swimming hole, and preliminary testing of the local water supply — funded by the company — has found no "significant" deleterious effects.
"We buy up all the German shepherd breeders in America, do some preliminary testing of kennels -- incidentally, saving tons of money by snapping up used Russian space stations at bargain prices -- and subcontract with conventioneering Shriners to practice dropping water bombs out hotel windows.
Between 1983, when Ronald Reagan first proposed what he called the "Strategic Defense Initiative," and 1999, when Congress most recently financed it, the United States spent over $60 billion on research and preliminary testing of a system to defend the nation against strategic missiles.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, awarded contracts for the production and clinical testing of an investigational vaccine based on the H5N1 virus, and in August it announced that preliminary testing of the vaccine had been successful.
Model calibration is necessary for preliminary testing of a model results.
Preliminary testing of AgNP synthesis by purified enzyme was done by visual observation.
In vitro tests are needed for preliminary testing of bioaccumulation potential.
