Sentences with phrase «ability tests used»

HAST is an ability test used by secondary schools to identify academically gifted students for participation in accelerated learning and enhancement programs.

Not exact matches

Russia has used its involvement in Syria as a sort of «test bed for showing off its new submarine capabilities,» including the ability to launch cruise missiles from subs, Nordenman said.

But the council itself voted June 29 to reject the application by shale gas explorer Cuadrilla Resources to drill four wells in the region and to use fracking to test their ability to produce gas.

In other words, the two groups both said they were testing Twitter's predictive ability; in reality, they both examined the accuracy of predictions using tweets and additional data sources like movie openings in theaters and film ratings on International Movie Database and Rotten Tomatoes.

That's the rate most lenders use when testing a prospective borrower's ability to handle higher payments.

GFI aims for diversity in their hires primarily through hiring practices that are intended to help them minimize the effects of bias, such as encouraging staff to score applications anonymously, using generalized ability tests, and meeting applicants only late in the process.88 While they've hired many women, including in seven of nine director roles, they find that their team is lacking in diversity in other ways, and they've met with Encompass to discuss further steps they can take to develop their diversity strategy.89 One staff member we spoke to mentioned that they hoped GFI would be able to begin paying interns, which might help diversify their team by broadening the pool of potential interns who could afford to take a position with GFI.90, 91

Science requires an ability to test using the scientific method.

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).

The new materials have undergone stringent lab testing to verify their ability to contain applications that use more volatile ingredients.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

Not impressed with your ability to objectively discern a reasonable «hot - meter» test regardless of whether we should be using it or not.

«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.

Jackson had access to each student's scores on the statewide standardized test, and he used that as a rough measure of their cognitive ability.

Another perspective for improving maternal care was offered by the group of Young and colleges who tested the potential contribution of musical training in depressed adults to their ability to interpret infant crying in relation to changes in pitch.51 Using auditory recordings of infants crying manipulated such that the pitch of the crying increased gradually to sound more distressed, it was shown that depressed adults with previous musical training showed higher sensitivity in discriminating distress variations in the infant crying.

This study used age - appropriate cognitive tests that measure developmental skills, such as the ability to focus, as well as tests that measure comprehension and verbal ability which are strong indicators of IQ.

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.).

Booster fit (no - back): A rating that reflects a booster seat's ability to correctly position the lap and shoulder belts in various test vehicles using a child - sized dummy, when used as a backless booster.

The next step is to devise a simple and universal test that could be used to assess babies» ability to suck.

Using such visual thinking «operators» as rotating, combining and subtracting images, Kunda and her lab were able to program an AI system to match average human scores on a test of reasoning ability.

Meanwhile, collaborators at The Scripps Research Institute screened millions of chemical compounds, using robotic technology to test each for their abilities to activate ATF6.

It was sloppy science: Researchers around the world were already testing powdered minerals for their ability to form ice, but they used minerals that were sterile and pure.

Rapamycin, an antibiotic and immunosuppressant approved for use about 15 years ago, has drawn extensive interest for its apparent ability — at least in laboratory animal tests — to emulate the ability of dietary restriction in helping animals to live both longer and healthier.

Using neuropsychological testing to assess cognitive performance, the researchers found a relationship between the amount of white matter injury and changes in reaction time and the ability to switch between mental tasks.

The next step is to devise a simple and universal test that could be used to assess babies» ability to suck.

In essence, ear differences in processing abilities are lost on tests using four items because our auditory system can handle more information.

In order to test its ability to predict patients with a higher risk of complications, Dr. Parvizi and colleagues enrolled 829 patients who had a planned total joint replacement between 2012 and 2013, and assessed their glycemic levels via the traditionally used maker called HbA1c, side by side with fructosamine.

Children were assessed on verbal cognitive abilities using standardized IQ tests during each assessment.

We had to modify the test a little so as to use Alex's unique abilities; we varied the color of the two lines, keeping the arrows black.

So far, PHA has only been tested in small quantities and it will have to demonstrate its ability both to stick to other materials and maintain a stable colour before aeroplane manufacturers will start using it.

The spheroids capable of producing hair follicles could also be used as a new way to test drugs for their ability to restore follicle function, Atit says.

«The ability to detect infection using urine rather than blood avoids needle stick and blood sample collection, greatly reduces the cost and necessary clinical infrastructure for screening and diagnosis, helping to promote widespread adoption of the test on a global scale,» Hu said.

The ability to synchronise two or more distant atomic clocks could be used to measure potential changes in fundamental physical constants or to test Einstein's theory of gravity.

«We chose to attack the problem using machine learning implemented on a D - Wave quantum annealer, in order to test our ability to translate complicated real - life biology problems to the setting of quantum machine learning, and to look for any advantages this approach might offer over more conventional, yet state - of - the - art classical machine learning techniques,» Lidar added.

The researchers tested two anti-CK2 drugs for their ability to stimulate the production of new brown fat in mice: a new small - molecule CK2 - blocker called silmitasertib (CX - 4945), which is already in clinical trials as a cancer therapeutic; and a more precise next - generation antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) drug developed in collaboration with Isis Pharmaceuticals, which eliminates CK2 by blocking the RNA instructions cells use to produce it.

A computer test to measure attention and the participant's ability to control his or her responses to an on - screen cue was also used after the yoga course.

To test whether the hippocampus could actually form spatial maps using only visual landmarks, Mehta's team devised a noninvasive virtual reality environment and studied how the hippocampal neurons in the brains of rats reacted in the virtual world without the ability to use smells and sounds as cues.

Also canceled were two scheduled tests this spring on two Native American reservations in Washington state, that were designed to measure the agency's ability to use tribal enrollment data in enumerating residents as well as how the new electronic system of updating addresses works in areas without unique addresses.

Diabetes risk was measured as the ability to manage blood sugars using an oral glucose tolerance test.

According to the proposed timeline, Mars One will send a lone cargo - filled Dragon capsule to Mars in 2016, to test its ability to land safely using rockets in its sidewalls.

The Moodle quiz tested, among others, the ability of learners to determine rules for patterns and functional relationships using flow diagrams, tables, formulae and equations in line with the current National Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement for Grade 7 - 9.

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.

Standardised tests (British Ability Scales) were used at each stage to assess the children's vocabulary skills (at three and five); reading at seven, and use of verbs at 11.

To test this idea, Velicer used a lab - bred strain that had lost the ability to form fruiting bodies.

They used high - resolution 3 - D images of the brain, questionnaires evaluating temperament and personality traits of individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder and their non-bipolar relatives, and an extensive battery of cognitive tests assessing long - term memory, attention, inhibitory control and other neurocognitive abilities.

For example, John Marzluff of the University of Washington (who co-authored the aforementioned paper with Clucas) used masked researchers to test the learning abilities of crows.

Perception of shapes has generally been tested using devices with raised or embossed letters to test a subject's ability to interpret text by touch.

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.

In one test for working memory — the ability to use recent experience to make decisions — the mice were trained to find food in one arm of a maze based on a visual cue.

The new NIST human genome RMs increase the ability of DNA sequencing laboratories to be more confident in their reporting of true positives, false positives, true negatives and false negatives, and therefore, significantly improve genetic tests used for disease risk prediction, diagnosis, and progression tracking.

Smear microscopy, the most widely used test in the world, has a significantly lower ability to detect TB, ranging between 50 to 60 percent sensitivity.