Having heard rumours, Mr Mattis asked Paul Messier, a prominent photographic conservator from Boston, to test the authenticity of a couple of his own vintage Hines.
But finally, when writing the life of any person, whether long or recently dead, the biographer's chief responsibility is vigorously to test the authenticity of the collected materials by whatever rules and techniques are available.
Mr. Kent urged history students to test the authenticity of sources and to curb their own "predilections and prejudices," and he followed that advice in preparing intelligence estimates at the C.I.A.
The technique, published today in the Journal of Proteome Research, could help consumer groups test the authenticity of naturally flavored sodas or other beverages, the researchers write.
As a next step faces should be animated to test the authenticity of dynamic displays of virtual emotion.
Initially this criterion was used to test the authenticity of an alleged dinosaur sequence [13] which proved to be a human sequence [14].
CMV-PTTG-EGFP was then sequenced to test the authenticity of the sequence.
To test the authenticity of de novo and reference assembled novel transcripts, semi-quantitative RT-PCR was performed on 70 different novel transcripts.
This is a good way to test the authenticity of the item, and to determine whether or not you are getting a competitive price.
To test the game's authenticity, Popular Science ran an experiment at Road Atlanta racetrack, in which Gunnar Jeannette, a pro with limited video game experience, compared actual hot rods with Forza's digital replicas.
