It aims to test the effectiveness of alert, monitoring and warning systems among all the emergency management organizations (national focal points for tsunami alerts, weather forecast offices, national coast guard, etc.) throughout the region.
But even when Pyongyang declared that it would conduct a nuclear-weapons test and announced where and when it would occur, this monitoring system failed to collect necessary radioactive gases and particulates to prove that a test had occurred.
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But experts caution such monitoring doesn't always work because test sites can be sealed to prevent tell-tale leaks.
And the machines can only test for one event at a time--say, monitoring one enzyme's activity or seeing if a compound binds to a target on a cell.
It can improve communication on stock levels, it can assist in monitoring disease outbreaks, and it can help in delivering test results.
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Rice said the advance mission is an important test of whether Syria will permit the effective operation of a larger monitoring system.
Also following the 2004 tsunami, UNESCO-IOC and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) agreed to explore the potential of using data from the International Monitoring System (IMS) for tsunami warning purposes.
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