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  2. Project 4.1 - Wikipedia

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    The cover to the Project 4.1 Final Report, "Study of Response of Human Beings Accidentally Exposed to Significant Fallout Radiation" Project 4.1 was the designation for a medical study and experimentation conducted by the United States of those residents of the Marshall Islands exposed to radioactive fallout from the 1 March 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, which had an ...

  3. Human radiation experiments - Wikipedia

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    Joseph G. Hamilton was the primary researcher for the human plutonium experiments done at U.C. San Francisco from 1944 to 1947. [1] Hamilton wrote a memo in 1950 discouraging further human experiments because the AEC would be left open "to considerable criticism," since the experiments as proposed had "a little of the Buchenwald touch."

  4. A/B testing - Wikipedia

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    "A/B testing" is a shorthand for a simple randomized controlled experiment, in which a number of samples (e.g. A and B) of a single vector-variable are compared. [1] A/B tests are widely considered the simplest form of controlled experiment, especially when they only involve two variants.

  5. Blocking (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Elevation: An experiment is designed to test the effects of a new pesticide on a specific patch of grass. The grass area contains a major elevation change and thus consists of two distinct regions – 'high elevation' and 'low elevation'.

  6. Optimal experimental design - Wikipedia

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    Gustav Elfving developed the optimal design of experiments, and so minimized surveyors' need for theodolite measurements (pictured), while trapped in his tent in storm-ridden Greenland. [ 1 ] In the design of experiments , optimal experimental designs (or optimum designs [ 2 ] ) are a class of experimental designs that are optimal with respect ...

  7. Scientific research on the International Space Station

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    Expedition 8 Commander and Science Officer Michael Foale conducts an inspection of the Microgravity Science Glovebox. ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, STS-116 mission specialist, works with the Passive Observatories for Experimental Microbial Systems in Micro-G (POEMS) payload in the Minus Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) inside the Destiny laboratory.

  8. Social experiment - Wikipedia

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    The experiment depends on a particular social approach where the main source of information is the participants' point of view and knowledge. To carry out a social experiment, specialists usually split participants into two groups — active participants (people who take action in particular events) and respondents (people who react to the action).

  9. Template:Infobox software - Wikipedia

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    An infobox for computer software Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers block formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Body style (CSS) bodystyle CSS styling for the infobox as a whole String optional Title title name Name of the computer program. Displayed at the top of the infobox. Default {{PAGENAMEBASE}} String optional Logo logo Filename for the ...