The re-use of animals will be allowed after tests involving "moderate" pain - though the Commission had proposed re-use only after tests classed as "up to mild" pain.
They observe the behavior of young children and use developmental tests to make sure kids are on the right track.
More recently, it rebuffed routine prostate-cancer screening and the use of tests that detect the viruses that can cause cervical cancer.
In May 2012, the Association of Directors of Education in Wales have agreed that all schools will use reading tests on a voluntary basis.
They could also use personality tests, values inventories and other metrics.
There is significant evidence that "work sampling, " the use of tests similar to the work being performed, is a better predictor of future performance than the usual job-interview chit-chat.
It has drug and diagnostics deals with Roche Holding and is working to use diagnostic tests to improve a heart drug that Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people ) is developing.
But teaching unions argued banning calculator use in the tests would risk pupils' ability to use them to tackle more complex mathematical problems.
Investigators may be able to use such DNA tests to find the culprits behind these anthrax scares and catch them.
The charities involved in the case called on the government to suspend use of WCA tests for the people they help.
The agreement requires the participating labs also not to use certain inaccurate tests and to register all patients with the Indian government.
And in France, the federation of insurance companies (membership of which is voluntary) has declared a five-year moratorium on the use of such tests.
Studies have shown that a technique called liquid cytology is a better system than the current one, and also facilitates the use of HPV tests where appropriate.
However, the spike in post-diagnosis suicides was observed only in the years before1993, before the widespread use of PSA tests, which are able to detect prostate cancer early.
That insight led to new processes, including same-day visits (as opposed to 31-day waits), reduced use of imaging tests and prescription drugs, and the addition of psychological support.
Mr Kraus thinks their technique could be used to print biosensitive nanoparticles (which are often produced as liquids) onto solid surfaces to make biosensors for use in medical tests.
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Molecular biology in action was evident during the use of qPCR tests for this microbe at a site in Southern California, where remediation professionals verified that MTBE degradation was taking place.
Although his research was supposed to involve the use of Rorschach tests to explore the connections between the unconscious and the behavior of people when possessed, Mischel soon grew interested in a different project.
Johnson 47 years ago Monday, the Voting Rights Act empowered the federal government to oversee elections in states with racially discriminatory voting practices, and outlawed the use of literacy tests for all American voters.
The law requires the use of the same tests and the same curriculum for nearly all school children.
It also sells genetic tests for use in sheep and pigs and is exploring applications in fisheries, tomatoes and maize.
The tests will use stem cells cultured from embryos left over in fertility clinics, which otherwise would have been discarded.
But what happens when every state can decide not only what tests to use but also what pass-mark to employ?
He wants us to reign in our advancing technology so that we make no use, or even tests, of promising space-based assets.
Moreover, he derides as "pseudo science" the battery of chemical and other tests restorers use to determine what art works originally looked like.
In a system that is 100% unionized, Finnish teachers write their own tests and use them as guides for students who may need additional help.
Many employers don't let applicants use them during vision tests.
Sometimes this is even our fault: It was the U.S. that let India in on the means we use to detect nuclear tests, so India disguised its plans in ways that foiled those means.
In an accompanying editorial, Dr Mary Tierney, an expert in geriatric research at the Sunnybrook And Women's College Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Canada, points out that the UCSF team did not use the most sensitive tests available.
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