Testing Methods. The Employer shall determine the method for testing or review of applicants for vacant positions. The Employer shall determine the methods for examinations which shall be used to select candidates for promotional positions subject to this Article.
Testing Methods. Testing methodologies include:
Testing Methods. This Plan shall use the prior year testing method for purposes of the ADP and ACP Tests, unless otherwise specified in (a) below.
Testing Methods. (2) The methods referred to in paragraph (c)(1) of this section for determining the weight of the pressed cake and referred to in paragraph (a)(3)(i) of this section for determining the percent of free flakes and the percent of pieces that pass through a 1/2 inch mesh sieve are as follows:
Testing Methods. The Employer makes the following remedial amendment period elections with respect to the ADP test and the ACP test: [Note: The Employer may use a different testing method for the ADP and ACP tests through the end of the Plan Year in which the Employer executes its GUST restated Plan.] ADP test ACP test
Testing Methods. Diagnostic testing is not only an important tool to diagnose disease in a patient, but also useful to estimate burden of disease in a population. Currently, two different classes of diagnostic tests are used to detect Salmonella in patients: culture-based and culture-independent diagnostic testing. Microbial culture presently is the gold-standard method for diagnosis and is required by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) to confirm a Salmonella case [17].While mainly confirming disease, cultures also provide isolates for antimicrobial susceptibility testing, genetic typing by PFGE in systems like PulseNet, and molecular characterization [11]. These typing activities are crucial to detecting outbreaks, understanding which specific serotypes of Salmonella, and epidemiologically linking foods and activities with disease. Culture-based methods are also labor- and time-consuming, usually requiring a minimum of 4-6 days awaiting bacterial growth. This delay creates a time lag from when disease is detected to reporting to public health authorities, potentially increasing the risk of continuous transmission of bacterial illness [18]. Culture methods have also been shown to have poor sensitivity for low-level contamination in a sample with a diverse flora background [18]. Since 2011, there has been a steady increase in the clinical use of culture independent diagnostic testing methods (CIDTs) for enteric disease, including Salmonella. These tests utilize antigen-based and PCR methods for detecting disease [19]. CIDTs have numerous benefits when compared to culture diagnostic testing. Results from CIDTs can be obtained more rapidly, a feature important to clinical decision making and public health surveillance activities. CIDTs also do not require the same level of technical expertise as require for culture testing [20]. Although costs to switch from culture may be initially expensive, CIDTs wind up cheaper than culture tests over time because of reduced labor costs [21]. CIDTs also have the potential to improve estimates of disease burden in a population because of their superior sensitivity, ability to detect disease without a practical laboratory test, and capability to detect multiple diseases at once [21]. CIDTs pose a serious risk towards the ability for public health surveillance to detect disease outbreaks. CIDTs testing methods do not produce an isolate or sample that can be further disseminated to other agencies. Isolates are crucia...
Testing Methods. SRP will perform end-to-end connectivity testing of the Fibers, and any necessary bi-directional span testing. Loss measurements will be recorded using an industry-accepted laser source and a power meter.
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Testing Methods. This Plan shall use the current year testing method for purposes of the ADP and ACP Tests, unless otherwise specified in (a) below. a) (Cannot select if 401(k) Safe Harbor Plan or QACA Safe Harbor Plan.) This Plan shall use the prior year testing method for purposes of the ADP and ACP Tests. NOTE: The testing method cannot be changed from the current year testing method to the prior year testing method for a Plan Year unless (i) the Plan has been using the current year testing method for the preceding five Plan Years or, if less, the number of Plan Years the Plan has been in existence or (ii) if, as a result of a merger or acquisition described in Code Section 410(b)(6)(C)(i), the Employer maintains both a plan using the prior year testing method and a plan using the current year testing method and the change is made within the transition period described in Code Section 410(b)(6)(C)(ii). If this plan is a multiple employer plan, separate testing method elections may be made in writing by each Employer Group. b) If this is not a successor plan and the Plan is using the prior year testing method, for the first Plan Year this Plan permits any Participant to make Elective Deferral Contributions, the prior year’s Nonhighly Compensated Employees’ ADP, as defined in Plan Section 3.08, shall be three percent, unless otherwise specified in (i) below. i) (Only available if (a) above is selected.) The Plan Year’s ADP, as defined in Plan Section 3.08, shall be used for the Nonhighly Compensated Employees’ ADP.
Testing Methods. The Employer makes the following remedial amendment period elections with respect to the ADP test and the ACP test: [Note: The Employer may use a different testing method for the ADP and ACP tests through the end of the Plan Year in which the Employer executes its GUST restated Plan.] ADP TEST ACP TEST (1) 1997: [ ] prior year [ ] current year 1997: [ ] prior year [ ] current year (2) 1998: [ ] prior year [ ] current year 1998: [ ] prior year [ ] current year (3) 1999: [ ] prior year [ ] current year 1999: [ ] prior year [ ] current year (4) 2000: [ ] prior year [ ] current year 2000: [ ] prior year [ ] current year (5) 2001: [ ] prior year [ ] current year 2001: [ ] prior year [ ] current year (6) 2002: [ ] prior year [ ] current year 2002: [ ] prior year [ ] current year
