pilot experiment

This was a pilot experiment, not done under fully rigorous conditions.

Usually, one or more pilot experiments are conducted to gain insights for design of the clinical trial to follow.

A 'small pilot experiment' has so far detected no side effects.

The depth of sequencing required for specific applications can be extrapolated from a pilot experiment.

Pilot experiments are also used to reduce cost, as they are less expensive than full experiments.

If pilot experiments are successful, maybe the environmentalists will be clamoring for their own style of offshore drilling.

The experiments reported in Crystal (1969), chapter 7, are only small-scale pilot experiments.

Determination of the recovery may be time-consuming and may require additional subjects or pilot experiments.

The bank announced that as a pilot experiment, the entire branch would be upgraded to a "premium" branch.

Pilot experiments are frequently carried out before large-scale quantitative research, in an attempt to avoid time and money being wasted on an inadequately designed project.

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By the late 1940's, he had helped persuade the Army to carry out "pilot experiments on a fairly large scale" of his radioactive aerosol idea.

The frequency of caffeine withdrawal in a population-based survey and in a controlled, blinded pilot experiment.

In a pilot experiment subjects attempted to describe films as they watched them in the way described by Hughes and Cole.

The mockup and pilot experiment for EMU could be used to expedite the accepting process.

Fryer recently ran a pilot experiment with third graders at P.S. 70 in the Bronx.

I can assure you that that system will also be taken into consideration in the pilot experiments that will be carried out at a technical level.

Often in engineering applications, pilot experiments are used to sell a product and provide quantitative proof that the system has potential to succeed on a full scale basis.

Initially a pilot experiment was carried out varying primer, template DNA and Mg 2+ion concentrations.

Although pilot experiments have a well-established tradition in public action, their usefulness as a strategy for change has been questioned, at least in the domain of environmental management.

I would like to draw the Commission's attention to an innovative pilot experiment that is being introduced in my constituency in Ennis, Co. Clare.

Meanwhile, during February, Ancillotto, Michele Allasia, and another pilot experimented with flying night patrols.

Pilot experiments demonstrated that it is extremely difficult to harvest the more gelatinous vitreous that is intricately associated with the retina without retinal contamination.

The Dark Psychics are the psychics that participated in the pilot experiment that preceded Kait and the other's arrival.

Dr. Thomson in 1995 isolated the embryonic stem cells of a monkey, and Geron intends to do pilot experiments in these cells.