Aspects of this topic are discussed in the following places at Britannica.
Common synonyms are “screening” and “vetting.” The most common technique is the background investigation, which involves obtaining all relevant available data about a person’s past education, employment, and personal behaviour and making judgments concerning the individual’s likely future loyalty and honesty. Thus, the dossier and computerized national data banks...
Link to this article and share the full text with the readers of your Web site or blog-post.
If you think a reference to this article on "screening" will enhance your Web site,
blog-post, or any other web-content, then feel free to link to this article,
and your readers will gain full access to the full article, even if they do not subscribe to our service.
You may want to use the HTML code fragment provided below.
...is, the ability to continue fighting after suffering damage. Second, when scouting was accomplished by ships or aircraft flung out ahead of a formation, information denial was accomplished by screening—that is, by flinging out an opposing line of ships and aircraft. Modern ways to confound the enemy’s scouting effort are keeping radio silence and jamming his radars, both of which...
Common synonyms are “screening” and “vetting.” The most common technique is the background investigation, which involves obtaining all relevant available data about a person’s past education, employment, and personal behaviour and making judgments concerning the individual’s likely future loyalty and honesty. Thus, the dossier and computerized national data banks...
...in most industrialized nations only in the newborn population, although future developments in the identification of risk genes for common adult onset disorders may change this policy. So-called mandated newborn screening was initiated in many societies in the latter quarter of the 20th century in an effort to prevent the drastic and often irreversible damage associated with a small number...
Psychosocial development can be measured using the Denver Developmental Screening Test. This test evaluates motor, language, and social development skills in children up to 6 years of age.
We welcome your comments. Any revisions or updates suggested for this article will be reviewed by our editorial staff. Contact us here.
Regular users of Britannica may notice that this comments feature is less robust than in the past. This is only temporary, while we make the transition to a dramatically new and richer site. The functionality of the system will be restored soon.