Sentences with phrase «studies standards call»

Not exact matches

The MIT - educated scientist recently told Patch he would bet a $ 10 million building he owns that the agritech giant Monsanto can't disprove his claim that there are no safety assessment standards for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), citing a recent study of his that suggests GMO soybeans may contain harmful levels of a chemical called formaldehyde.

The study, just published in Science, showed that the creation of what the researchers are calling microtumors can help predict drug effectiveness in cancer patients better than the current standard method of testing the drugs on rodents.

A recent study in the Journal of Applied Microbiology has compared how viruses disperse from the hands of users of three different drying methods — paper towels, standard «warm air» dryers, and so - called «jet dryers» like the Dyson model.

One of the few disciplines called a science and not subjected to the repeatability standard is the study of origins.

These extracts from Simpson show how far he had moved from the traditional (or what he called the Latin) view of resurrection, even though his study appears conservative by today's standards.

While the analysis didn't measure breastfeeding, one hospital study compared the responses of newborns to standard and what they call «enhanced» care.

He's calling for developers to honor the standards already found in the Environmental Impact Study, which determined the need for some 1,500 parking spaces.

Yet the authors are not just calling for more studies that might lead to shorter standard treatment courses.

For example, the study showed that while standard testing identified a virus as influenza A, which causes seasonal flu, the new test indicated that the virus was a particularly harsh subtype called H3N2.

Since randomized clinical trials — the gold - standard in research — don't accommodate patients» preferences, Zoellner and her research team used a study design called a «doubly randomized preference trial» to investigate whether giving patients a choice affects their treatment outcomes.

There currently is no standard diagnostic code for SUPC, and Bass and his co-authors — including senior author Ronald Kleinman, MD, MGHfC physician - in - chief — have called for standardizing the definition of the condition and establishment of an SUPC registry to better identify such events and facilitate further study.

Together with Liberian officials, Lane is poised to launch a randomized study of an antibody cocktail called ZMapp; that study does include a control group in which patients will receive standard care but not the drug.

The latest study of the afterglow of the big bang — the so - called cosmic microwave background radiation — confirms even more precisely the standard model of cosmology — and that's a victory for the theory — but it leaves researchers with no discrepancies that might point to a deeper understanding.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is beginning a two - year, $ 16 million study of the twin - tower collapse that will address three pressing questions: whether current testing standards and building codes are adequate to resist catastrophic fires; whether building codes sufficiently take into account what engineers call progressive collapse, the chain reaction that leads to extremely rapid collapse (in the case of the World Trade Center towers, about 10 seconds); and how existing buildings can be made less vulnerable to terrorist attack.

The study, called the Minimizing Adverse Hemorrhagic Events by Transradial Access Site and Systemic Implementation of AngioX Program (MATRIX), randomized more than 7,200 patients undergoing angioplasty at 78 hospitals in four European countries to bivalirudin or standard coagulation therapy.

Their proposed «global alliance,» as they call it for now in a white paper, aims to develop standards — analogous to protocols for building Internet web pages — that will enable researchers around the world in fields from cancer to rare diseases to securely share and study patients» genome sequences and clinical information.

Peter and colleagues focused their initial studies on a standard panel, known as NCI60, of 60 human tumor cell lines that can genetically be divided into two large groups, which they called superclusters 1 and 2.

The drug, a monoclonal antibody called ipilimumab, is the first treatment of any kind ever shown in a large, randomized phase III clinical study (study MDX010 - 20) to improve overall survival in patients with metastatic melanoma who no longer respond to standard therapy.

Many of the studies are so - called randomized controlled trials, the gold standard of scientific experimentation in humans.

The studies were called randomized controlled trials, which are considered the «gold standard» in research «The scientific term for it is «silly,»» ays Michael Holick, a professor of medicine at Boston University, told the paper.

People forget this component, and some of the studies — one of the studies by Christopher Gardner back in 2006 was called the A to Z Study, where they looked at the Atkins versus the Standard American Diet versus the Ornish.

Among other things, this authenticity addresses the call in the Common Core State Standards for students to «learn to appreciate that a key purpose of writing is to communicate clearly to an external, sometimes unfamiliar audience» and an emphasis in the Michigan second - grade social studies standards on the local community context.

A new study calls into question the popular notion that grading standards in the nation's high schools just aren't what they used to be.

A calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive preparation including instruction in skills and methods as well as in the scientific, historical, or scholarly principles underlying such skills and methods, maintaining by force of organization or concerted opinion high standards of achievement and conduct, and committing its members to continued study and to a kind of work which has for its prime purpose the rendering of a public service.

This study comes at a time of intense efforts to improve education in New Jersey, which is rolling out new teacher evaluations, new online state tests and a new set of voluntary national standards called the Common Core, which spells out what children should master in each grade.

Of course, as a result of this gimmick, the new Florida study found that the tests that students were given did not even properly aligned with the so - called Florida standards, let alone with the curriculum being taught in Florida's public schools

She recently co-authored an October 2015 study, comparing NAEP content with the Common Core standards, and found several areas of what she calls «mismatch».

Department of Education researchers have been publishing studies for several years that use data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- often called «The Nation's Report Card» — to compare state standards and to analyze the impact of NCLB on student achievement.

Adopted in 2010, the new content standards in English language arts are now called the Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History / Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects.

In an attempt to address the state's education funding problem, in 2006 the legislature called for an independent Costing - Out study to determine the resources needed to help students achieve state academic standards.

A new cost study — which is sorely needed and which the school funding advocates (CCJEF) are calling for — one done to reflect current costs, taking into account all our new mandates and standards, and current student demographics and need — will undoubtedly show a similar if not even larger gap in state funding.

We urged that they rescind Alabama's Common Core Standards called Alabama College and Career Standards (ACCRS) and that they move expeditiously to empower duly appointed course of study committees to replace ACCRS with new standards informed by the best of the best pre-common core standards in the nation so that our students can return to the positive trajectory they were on prior to common core implementation.

Johns Hopkins University has constructed a powerful online resource called Evidence for ESSA that organizes digital math and reading tools that best align with ESSA standards and ranks these products based on the success of studies and research that has been done on the programs, allowing schools to find research - based tools that are best made to fit their student demographics.

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The so - called SPIVA study (short for Standard & Poor's Indices Versus Active), which can be found at spindices.com, compares the performance of actively managed stock and bond funds to appropriate benchmark indexes.

LawGeex — an Israel - based tech company whose artificial intelligence (AI)- based document review software automates the process of identifying risky provisions in contracts — has announced the results of a peer - reviewed study that compared artificial intelligence to human lawyers in the review of standard business contracts called non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).

This recommendation tackles these issues and more, declaring that CPD's purpose is to meet the evolving needs of lawyers and clients (which reads to me like a call for more practice - and client - related information and training), that there should be CPD standards grounded in practical outcomes, and that the assumption that traditional CPD correlates with competence should be tested (that last point, if studied and debunked, could change CPD worldwide).

It also seems call handling standards have not significantly improved when comparing the results to a similar study conducted in 2013.

Legal firms» call handling standards have come into question as the result of a major new study into telephone...

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To explain the basic findings of these studies, we first need to get a bit technical and explain a unit called the standard deviation.

A coalition of real estate and other business organizations (including NAR) wrote to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) reaffirming their calls for an economic impact study, extensive field testing, and full re-exposure of the entire lease accounting proposal — with the goal of creating a standard that will meet the tests of the marketplace and fulfill the needs of all stakeholders.