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  2. Operation Fishbowl - Wikipedia

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    Operation Fishbowl was a series of high-altitude nuclear tests in 1962 that were carried out by the United States as a part of the larger Operation Dominic nuclear test program. Array of sounding rockets with instruments for making scientific measurements of high-altitude nuclear tests during liftoff preparations on Johnston Island.

  3. Cardiac stress test - Wikipedia

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    003878. [edit on Wikidata] A cardiac stress test is a cardiological examination that evaluates the cardiovascular system's response to external stress within a controlled clinical setting. This stress response can be induced through physical exercise (usually a treadmill) or intravenous pharmacological stimulation of heart rate. [1]

  4. Operation Dominic - Wikipedia

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    Dominic- Bighorn, 7.7 megatons. Operation Dominic was a series of 31 nuclear test explosions ("shots") with a 38.1 Mt (159 PJ) total yield conducted in 1962 by the United States in the Pacific. [1] This test series was scheduled quickly, in order to respond in kind to the Soviet resumption of testing after the tacit 1958–1961 test moratorium.

  5. Trier social stress test - Wikipedia

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    Trier social stress test. The Trier social stress test (TSST) is a laboratory procedure used to reliably induce stress in human research participants. It is a combination of procedures that were previously known to induce stress, but previous procedures did not do so reliably.

  6. Stress testing - Wikipedia

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    Stress testing. Stress testing is a form of deliberately intense or thorough testing, used to determine the stability of a given system, critical infrastructure or entity. It involves testing beyond normal operational capacity, often to a breaking point, in order to observe the results. Reasons can include: to determine breaking points or safe ...

  7. Fatigue testing - Wikipedia

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    Each 16 hour flight took 11 minutes to simulate on the fatigue test rig. [1] Fatigue testing is a specialised form of mechanical testing that is performed by applying cyclic loading to a coupon or structure. These tests are used either to generate fatigue life and crack growth data, identify critical locations or demonstrate the safety of a ...

  8. The 2024 Fish Bowl will be different. Here’s what to know ...

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    Julia Park. September 3, 2024 at 8:30 AM. This year’s Fish Bowl football game will look a little different. The annual game between rivals Peninsula High School and Gig Harbor High School will ...

  9. 2009 Supervisory Capital Assessment Program - Wikipedia

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    The Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, publicly described as the bank stress tests (even though a number of the companies that were subject to them were not banks), was an assessment of capital conducted by the Federal Reserve System and thrift supervisors to determine if the largest U.S. financial organizations had sufficient capital buffers to withstand the recession and the financial ...