(Of course, the costly "Avatar," with the biggest worldwide grosses of all time, was the ultimate public works project: W.P.A. in 3-D) As with Washington, there was some waste and abuse, notably the opening dance number — Neil Patrick Harris and a troupe of Las Vegas-style dancers — that was meant to suggest opulent old-fashioned showbiz-as-usual, but mostly tested the clock.
We have also tested the clock hypothesis by using the third codon positions only, but the clock hypothesis is still strongly rejected (lnL with no clock = −4053.1815, lnL with clock = −4116.3185, Likelihood ratio chi-square = 126.2739, DF = 48, p < 0.0001).
To test the clock's accuracy, Bull used digital calipers to precisely measure the widths of 34,000 lichens at 90 mountain sites on the South Island.
CREEP was the operative word when I tested the SunRise Clock last week, a "natural alarm clock" that simulates the creep of dawn.
They cleaned the contacts, tested the capacitors, clock, and so on, and at last used a MacBook Pro to load a program onto the unit that excitedly repeated "Hello Polito" on the monitor.
We also tested the molecular clock hypothesis (i.e., that all lineages evolved at the same rate) based on the likelihood ratio of the topology with the highest log likelihood with and without assuming a molecular clock.
When two molecular clock rate variation models (strict versus relaxed clock) were tested, the mean rate of the individual clock model did not show any variation regardless of whether different substitution models were used, including HKY and GTR (Table 2).
For each game tested, the PlayStation 4 clocked in at under a minute, whereas the Xbox One took considerably longer.
Pupils will be tested against the clock on their tables up to 12x12 in new computer-based exams that the Department of Education (DfE) said were part of the government's "war on innumeracy and illiteracy".
First, the likelihood ratio test (LRT) [ 55] was used to test the molecular clock hypothesis (i.e., all tips of the tree are equidistant from the root of the tree) on the aforementioned phylogenetic trees [ 52].
At the end of a year the NASA will test the two clocks & the preferred one will serve as the prototype of still another clock, which must be able to withstand the fearful shock of being launched, in a satellite casing, some 8,000 miles into space & attaining an orbital speed of 18,000 miles an hour.
