"He raised test scores significantly, while strengthening the tests and improving their validity by including special education kids in the numbers," said Bob Lanier, a Democrat who was mayor of Houston from 1992 to 1998.
A9 SPORTSTUESDAY D1-8 Players Agree to Tougher Tests For the second time in less than a year, the Players Association has agreed to reopen the collective bargaining agreement with baseball team owners and strengthen the testing for steroid usage.
Downing Street also promised to strengthen the test people have to pass to see if they are eligible to claim income-related benefits – the so called habitual residence test which ensures that the UK is a person's main residence.
He pledged that "by the end of this year and before the controls on Bulgarians and Romanians are lifted, we are going to strengthen the test that determines which migrants can access benefits".
So by the end of this year… …and before the controls on Bulgarians and Romanians are lifted… …we are going to strengthen the test that determines which migrants can access benefits.
To respond to the ongoing HIV epidemic among MSM, the Zhejiang Provincial CDC has required strengthening the HIV testing programme among MSM, and promoting the use of RHT to increase the testing coverage in this group.
Oort's subsequent work, as well as that of the school of astronomy he developed in the Netherlands, was directed toward strengthening and testing the Lindblad-Oort theory.
There is talk now of strengthening the already-controversial test, advising doctors and hospitals to treat free of charge only those entitled to it, and urging councils to hand out housing to local people.For Frank Field, a long-serving Labour MP and former minister, such ideas are mere tinkering.
Therefore, the higher sensitivity of in vitro IGRA tests for the diagnosis of LTBI in immunocompromised patients could strengthen the targeted testing strategy and treatment of LTBI.
Still, the two have worked together to strengthen the existing testing program for several years now and the results are becoming increasingly apparent.
