Sentences with phrase «serve as a test»

For now, Facebook Stories is only available in Ireland, which has also served as a testing ground for some of the company's other recent projects, including a beta version of Direct.

The testing of the U-2 ended in the late 1950s; but, Area 51 has continued to serve as the testing ground for many aircraft, including the F - 117A, A-12, and TACIT BLUE.

And Canada may again soon serve as a test market for HuffPo: there's a good chance we'll see more regional editions beyond Le HuffPo Quebec.

The six - month selection process weeds out roughly 80 percent of its volunteers, with every day serving as both a test and an opportunity by push them to the brink of mental annihilation.

The store serves as a testing model for bitcoin core supporters, and it comes with a giant warning about the possibility of losing funds.

Mohawk's $ 1.8 million Additive Manufacturing Resource Centre in Hamilton, Ontario will serve as a test lab for advanced manufacturing companies and a one - of - a-kind living lab for students from Mohawk's Faculty of Engineering Technology.

It may serve as a test of that statement if we now ask, how far is it possible to describe the characteristics of the mind that they reveal?

The dialogue with psychotherapy can serve as a test of Whitehead's theory by evaluating its success in areas beyond its immediate origin, indicating to some extent the adequacy of its cosmology.

Remembering Henry Young's point, we are compelled to ask, how adequate are the descriptions of concrete events which serve as the testing ground for metaphysical truths?

The limited - time items Taco John's offers in 2015 through 2017 are serving as tests for the future lineup.

...... This will only serve as a Test to see if we really have a Target and how willing we are to pull out all stops to get our man........

they: 1) did not find this at all weird, and 2) were totally on board to serve as my testing panel.

The suit could serve as a test case for her year - old unit, which has faced questions about its independence from Cuomo, and its ability to be an effective watchdog over what in the past has been a sparsely enforced election laws.

The stadium conversation was a secret to McMahon for too long, he said, and should serve as a test case for the future.

Still, the city will serve as a test lab for technologies that could be deployed less dramatically, but more meaningfully, in conventional cities.

The experiment also serves as a test bed for the 500 - times - more - sensitive Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), which will study the metamorphoses of neutrinos during an 800 - mile journey through the Earth.

Even though the craft is newly retired, the facility continues to serve as a test site for every NASA prototype that might take flight.

Weeze Airport in Germany, just across the Dutch border near Nijmegen, will serve as the test site for this life - like robotic falcon developed by Clear Flight Solutions, a spin - off company of the University of Twente.

The newest telescope, the boxy WIYN 3.5 meter, inaugurated in 1994, serves as a test bed of new astronomical technologies.

It was designed to serve as a test bed for future robotic missions, like Spirit's in 2004.

The behaviour of this control group served as a test for any possible predisposition or bias regarding the movement of the sliding door.

And the public spaces at Fusionopolis serve as test beds for innovations.

To probe that frontier, Baxter is serving as a test subject for robot psychology.

It will serve as a test bed for developments in high - speed communication and it will allow computers to be used in new ways.

The project begins this spring where passengers from Aalborg Airport initially serve as the test group.

Clevers and other scientists have developed organoids of the gut, liver, lung, brain, and many other human organs that can be used to model disease or to serve as test beds for drugs.

After this brief science instrument demonstration period, which also serves as a test for relaying this data back to Earth, along with data from NASA's Curiosity and Opportunity rovers, the focus turns back to operations and the preparations required to for aerobraking next year.

The agency recently announced that its Mars plan now includes building a «deep - space gateway» around the moon to serve as a testing ground for operations and technology that will be required for those Red Planet missions, Williams said.

Dorothy the accountant and her son Ray (the impishly adorable Jonathan Lipnicki) figure into Jerry's rocky search for the meaning of love and loyalty, while Tidwell serves as the test case for Jerry's new theories.

It is said that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker's «Transfarring» feature served as a test for this.

It is also serving as a test to put into place all the measures to grant a smooth launch.

The Nov. 8 election, which the governor called last week, will also serve as a test of the Republican governor's political strength and popularity as he begins his expected campaign for re-election in 2006.

«Rather than being an incentive to cut back on testing, superintendents, principals, and teachers are faced with an increasing amount of testing to evaluate teachers» and serve as test prep to increase SBAC scores, said Williams.

France is already serving as a test case for the belief, like that espoused by DeVos, that private school choice can increase equity.

Regardless of which school serves as the test center, you may request test results be sent to any independent school in the program.

The foundation will serve as a catalyst for change, Gates said, investing in new methods of instruction and then rigorously tracking student outcomes so that other districts can learn from the classrooms that serve as testing grounds.

The District, which initiated major school reforms in 2007, has served as a test case for often controversial policies — such as expanding school choice, eliminating teacher tenure and tying evaluations to test scores — which have since been adopted by a growing number of states.

The Jaguar Formula E car, seen here, will serve as a test bed to allow the automaker to continue to develop its battery and electric - drivetrain technologies under punishing race situations.

A Chevrolet Impala serves as the test car.

Sprague said the K900 will serve as a test case for consumers» reaction to rear - wheel - drive cars from Kia and could influence if the brand expands in that area.

A fleet of zero - emissions vehicles, most likely Nissan Leafs, will serve as the test bed for the technology, and will allow for a demonstration of remotely controlled transportation, similar to the method in which NASA controls the planetary rovers remotely from a mission control center.

Despite the belief of many that the Volkswagen Phaeton full - size luxury sedan was the answer to a question nobody asked, VW development chief Heinz - Jakob Neusser said that an all - new Phaeton was in the works, and despite superficial appearances, that the business case for it was quite good, as it serves as a test - bed for putting new technologies into production, and ultimately putting them into more mass - market Volkswagen vehicles, Britain's Autocar reports.

The concept, which signified the restart of relations between Ford and Shelby nearly four decades after the demise of the GT350 and GT500 Mustangs, was initially used for advertising, press photography, and public display, before later going on to serve as a test bed for optional upgrades.

Our Audi S8 also served as a test pad for a set of driver aid features that included blind spot assistance, adaptive cruise control, and lane departure warning system, this last feature being new for Audi.

The AMC Spirit served as a test vehicle for alternative engine and fuel experiments.

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The A8 has frequently served as a test bed for new Audi technologies, and it has evolved over the past ten years into one of the most capable full - size sedans on the market.

Physical books will continue to be produced, because they probably at least cover their costs and serve as test beds where new concepts and characters can be created that might yield real revenue down the road.

We're guessing that this promotion is serving as a test case for them to try out a range of low prices, particularly on older e-books (or, as in the case of the two books above, on books approaching their publication dates).»

Secondly, it serves as a testing ground for experienced traders to test out their trading strategies before implementing the strategies in a live trading scenario.