Sentences with phrase «different ability tests»

Not exact matches

For several hours each day, unbeknownst to those employees, the researchers raised and lowered the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, and then tested everyone on nine different kinds of cognitive ability, like responding to a crisis, strategic thinking and applying their knowledge to a practical task.

They then test the ability of each component to predict returns of different kinds of stocks.

Repeatable in science refers to the ability to test the same hypothesis, using the same methods (typically by independent researchers), to confirm or reject said hypothesis, e.g. the repeated observation by many, many different researchers of fossils in the correct temporal and morphological relationships within the fossil record (no rabbits in the pre-Cambrian, no humans alongside dinosaurs, etc).

«It brings a whole new challenge, and as a footballer that's what you're always looking for, to test your ability against players you're not used to competing against and different teams that play a different brand of football.

Examples of accommodations include the ability to complete a test a different way / format, use of verbal intermediaries, and ability to request special accommodations in regard to school placement (teachers, friend in the class, etc.).

The participants in the study took a variety of tests, which measured different aspects of their thinking abilities including memory span and verbal and spatial abilities.

In the current study, Whitney, along with colleagues John Hinson, WSU professor of psychology, and Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, compared how people with different variations of the DRD2 gene performed on tasks designed to test both their ability to anticipate events and their cognitive flexibility in response to changing circumstances.

Next they tested thousands of different compounds for their ability to kill these reprogrammed cells.

The NUS team will be testing MantaDroid in sea environment next, to investigate its swimming capability at different depths and its ability to withstand underwater current.

Besides carefully mapping the participants» specific symptoms, the scientists also tested their cognitive abilities and measured levels of different proteins in their blood and CSF, a fluid that surrounds the brain and that thus gives a good indication of its chemistry.

The method has now been tested on a neuropeptide receptor and has been shown to be able to predict with great reliability both the effects of mutations and the receptor's ability to bind a series of different molecules.

The Wyss team believes the ability of the human gut - on - a-chip to culture the microbiome with human gut cells also holds promise for the field of precision medicine, where a patient's own cells and gut microbiota could one day be cultured inside a gut - on - a-chip for testing different therapies and identifying an individualized treatment strategy.

Upon completion of the test, Spors evaluates whether there is statistically significant difference in the testers» ability to identify the one different sample versus the probability of achieving identical results randomly.

Further tests show that some of the bacteria in the gland are very similar genetically, but have different abilities to inhibit fungi and seem to do a good job keeping eggs clean.

These tests included: navigation, tested by timing how long it took the dogs to get food that was behind different types of barriers; assessing whether they could tell the difference between quantities of food and; their ability to follow a human pointing gesture to an object.

Shaw and her colleagues briefly captured and banded 20 adult birds, which they trained to carry out six different tests to measure various skills thought to be linked to specific types of animal cognition (defined as the ability to acquire, process, and act on information about the environment).

Participants also underwent testing of their ability to suppress a response and their cognitive flexibility that allows them to switch back and forth between different tasks — both crucial capabilities in everyday life (employing the Delis - Kaplan Executive Function System Color - Word Interference Test).

Children with autism were better able to tell whether fish (white dots with arrows) were swimming toward the red or green reef, a game that tested the ability to integrate different trajectories.

In a different set of experiments, the food chemists tinkered with baking conditions and then ran five different test - tube assays of the crust's antioxidant activity — its ability to quash free radicals.

The testing looks at how well different parts of the brain — the left and right prefrontal cortices — operate together at rest, which helps determine the rate of decline of speech abilities in the patient, she said.

«At the heart of these methods is the ability to test if patterns of brain activity are more alike for two similar styles of music compared to different styles.

The 28 men and 45 women also took part in a standardized test, which is typically used to measure different patterns of brain function in older adults, focusing on attention, memory, fluency, language and visuospatial ability.

Then the mice were placed in a different arm of the maze and tested on their ability to remember the location of the platform based on the environmental cues.

Working with a much larger replica, the team will test the material's ability to recognise different colours and potentially even shapes and symbols.

But, up until now, no one's had the ability and required technology to actually test different drugs to find something that targets the peripheral nervous system and not the central nervous system in a patient specific, or personalized manner.»

After the final stressors were administered, the researchers gave the young mice a round of behavioral tests and then waited until the mice reached adulthood, at about 10 weeks old, to see if their different upbringings had affected their cognitive abilities or brain morphology.

The competition is designed to test the ability of the software agent controlling each manager to learn, as well as compare different managerial strategies: some managers may focus on attack, others may be more reactive.

The recent study, published in the journal Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, focuses on using a simple test of visual flicker to evaluate an individual's level of executive cognitive abilities, such as shifting attention between different tasks, planning or organizing and problem solving.

Paulson's team — including postdoctoral fellows Robert P. de Vries and Corwin M. Nycholat and Research Assistant Ryan McBride — tested the ability of the virus's hemagglutinin (HA) protein, to bind to different human and avian receptor variants.

The ultimate test of a stem cell is its ability to produce different cell types.

«If we go back 10 years and ask what is the most important parameter [to developing a therapeutic particle], people would immediately think of the particle's size and then its surface chemistry,» says University of California, Santa Barbara, chemical engineering professor Samir Mitragotri, who develops microscopic particles of different shapes and tests their ability to deliver drugs, but was not associated with DeSimone's study.

The team collected plasma from the cows, purified the human IgG antibodies, and tested the material for its ability to neutralize the two different viruses.

In a single reaction volume, Luminex has the ability to perform many different tests and use either magnetic beads or plain polystyrene beads.

The HZI will develop a vaccination protocol for mucosal administration based on three novel strategies: (i) development and optimization of a vaccination protocol in which parenterally - primed T and B cells are subsequently pulled into the mucosa by the local delivery of the cognate antigen to the requested effector site, (ii) testing the co-administration of antigens with novel mucosal adjuvants using different mucosal immunisation routes and schedules, and (iii) testing various nanoparticles co-administered with different immunomodulators for their ability to generate both systemic and mucosal immune responses following transcutaneous / trans - follicular vaccination.

(iii) Test various nanoparticles co-administered with different immunomodulators for their ability to generate both systemic and mucosal immune responses following transcutaneous / trans - follicular vaccination.

Meanwhile, our team at the Research Center will be picking up and running with an emerging mechanism of such resistance, testing one of two different platforms to see if we can deny senescent cells the ability to shield themselves from NK clearance.

These test protocols have established a particular ability to handle a wide range of different alloys that would be exposed to harsh environments during the production process.

«While existing theories on why there is so much variation in the ability of different human populations to construct viable states are usually formulated verbally, by contrast, the authors» work leads to sharply defined quantitative predictions, which can be tested empirically,» they added.

You can easily find out what of the qualities you are missing by testing your abilities is different movements.

The lactose intolerance test simply evaluated our daughter's ability to digest the sugars in milk — a completely different set of circumstances.

After testing it on 10 different kinds of bacteria, they concluded that blackberry extract's ability to kill pathogens, along with its anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties, make it a promising ingredient in products designed to prevent or treat periodontal infections.

I think it's a great way to test your body's abilities, tap into different types of strength, use new forms of movement, and increase variety too.

In other words, testing L. salivarius for its ability to lower cholesterol (which is not what it does) might lead to a blanket statement that probiotics are not helpful in lowering cholesterol — whereas the same study using Streptococcus thermophilus, L. acidophilus, or Bifidus would most likely produce entirely different results.

COD ability is tested by a range of different COD maneuvers, which involve a rapid series of whole - body movements, while also changing velocity.

Joining up for free trial memberships at various Christian dating services allows you the ability to test out your profile and picture layout in different ways.

Speaking of boss battles, they allow you to experiment and test your abilities since you will be able to take down majority of the normal enemies with regular attacks, the boss battles demand you to strategically target different body parts of exploit their weakness to certain attacks in order to take them down quickly.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

I have tended to test student's ability to complete the grid accurately from memory, then got them to correct mistakes or fill in gaps in a different colour pen to identify weak areas - I then revisit the activity periodically to assess improvements in knowledge.

These sites all offer users the ability to compare their school with others in the same school district or state (because standard tests in each state vary, it's difficult to make such comparisons across districts in different states), and a few rank schools based on test performance or other factors.

Suppose tests 1 and 2 are different tests of verbal ability (for example, vocabulary and spelling), and tests 3 and 4 are different tests of mathematical ability.