Dr. Rankin, a neuropsychologist and assistant professor in the Memory and Aging Center at the University of California, San Francisco, used an innovative test developed in 2002, the Awareness of Social Inference Test, or Tasit.
For the Sydney Games, scientists intend to use an Australian-developed blood test in combination with a urine test developed by French researchers.
An exception is the test developed by Hughes et al. [ 47], the Simple Shoulder Endurance Test.
Aventis yesterday endorsed a test developed by Strategic Diagnostics.
The layperson usually cites the Turing test, developed by Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing in 1950.
Mensa, the UK's high IQ society, prefers to use the Cattel test developed by psychologists in the early 20th century.
Roche, another leader in diagnostics, said it hoped to have a test developed in a few weeks.
He is expected to defend the test, developed in the 1930's by Henry Murray, an influential Harvard psychologist.
The leading test manufacturers are Bio-Rad based in France, Prionics AG in Switzerland and U.S. Abbott Laboratories, which recently acquired rights to a test developed in Ireland.
In those early years of the epidemic, before H.I.V. was discovered and a blood test developed, infected donors could not be identified, so blood often contained the virus.
The test, developed by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, can identify dangerous fatty plaques in the heart's arteries, which can lead to clots if they rupture.
