Though Pope Francis may not directly challenge his episcopal colleagues in these matters, he does teach and preach and insistently return to other norms for litmus tests of a serious Catholic, norms drawn from Scripture texts such as Matthew 25: 31-46.
A week ago Google and Salesforce announced broad integration of Google Apps (Docs, Calendar, Gmail, and Gtalk) and Salesforce's online enterprise apps, which, our sources say, may just be a test of a more serious relationship.
Wason accepted falsificationism, according to which a scientific test of a hypothesis is a serious attempt to falsify it.
While it's tempting to make comparisons with O Brother, Where Art Thou? (the musical thread seems to bind them together), this is closer in tone to the tested antihero theme of A Serious Man.
The ultimate test of how serious a party the Greens have become will be how soon they are prepared to try once again to work with the CDU, in a state or even, after 2013, at the federal level.
The most suitable method for this issue is likelihood ratio test using logistic regressions, which we call interaction test, but a serious problem of this test is computational intractability at a genome-wide level.
This audit shows the positive effect of magnesium sulphate as indicated by few recurrent seizures after initiation of the treatment, however, lack of deep tendon reflex test was a serious omission.
Gaddafi's cynical release and swift re-arrest of Eljahmi was both a move to crush dissent, and a test of how serious America might be in defending its real friends abroad, including democratic dissidents in the Arab world who are willing to die for their beliefs.
This could be seen as a test of how serious your intentions are.
