U.S. officials and Europeans involved in administering the test acknowledged that the Shanghai scores are by no means representative of all of China.
But on a recent tour of the labs, John Barton, an Intel vice president in charge of product testing, acknowledged that he was still feeling anxious about the possibility of a last-minute, show-stopping flaw.
But rather than wait for the test results, Mr. Smith acknowledged that Molycorp was announcing the deposit now partly to reassure manufacturers that adequate supplies of heavy rare earths would be available in the near future — in hopes of discouraging manufacturers from seeking alternative materials, as some have already begun to do.
It does not name the authors of its reading passages, and the materials describing the test acknowledge that the passages are excerpts from published materials and say that "to make the text suitable for testing purposes, we may in some cases have altered the style, contents or point of view of the original".
To be sure, even the harshest critics of IQ testing acknowledge that IQ scores are related to academic achievement.
The IELTS (2017) asserts that the test 'is interactive and as close to a real-life situation as a test can get', hereby acknowledging that although the test is administered via an OPI, which contains direct test tasks, it is still nonetheless an indirect performance-referenced test.
Specifically, HRQoL has been shown to have an impact on physician and patient decisions regarding LS genetic testing, with physicians acknowledging that patient worry can decrease referrals and uptake [19].
In its petition, the ECI called for the abrogation of Directive 2010/63/EU, which is an EU ruling that states Europe's final goal as "a full phasing out of animal testing," all the while acknowledging that, "animal use is still necessary on the way to reaching this goal".
We have reworded the text (in the fourth paragraph of the subsection "Testing candidate stabilizers") to acknowledge that septin signals are sometimes visible at both clusters during competition.
Mr. Valliere is using off-the-shelf Sony Clié hand-held computers for his tests but acknowledged that they might be modified so, like the polarized seat-back screens that provide translations at the Metropolitan Opera, they do not annoy neighbors.
