Sentences with phrase «added lead testing»

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ONE man's vision to provide a value - added pressure - testing service to the construction, resources and oil and gas industries, has led to the emergence of a leading Australian company poised to expand offshore.

2017-04-26: Accuver, the world's leading provider of wireless test and measurement solutions, today announced that is has added a cloud - based drive testing management system called XRO to its series of drive test tools.

Some believe that false positives can lead to unnecessary further testing or treatment — adding to the strain on health care resources and putting some men through unnecessary and painful procedures.

The serpent was testing Eves knowledge which lead her to add to the commandment adding» we shall not even go near it» referring to the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Sir Chris Hoy, Britain's joint most successful Olympian and an elite consultant for SiS, added: «As a professional athlete you need to trust every element of your training, including your sports nutrition, and SiS are experts in banned substance testing through its world - leading informed sport programme.

Animal tests also show bisphenol A can speed up puberty and add to weight gain, and may cause changes that can lead to breast and prostate cancer.

Lab Tested, Lead and phthalates Free, Approved by CPSIA, Each Pacifier Hand checked for added safety

«But it is my hope that, when judged by future generations, our sincerity, our willingness to take a lead, and our determination to do the right thing, will stand the test of time,» she added.

«New Pap smear schedule led to fewer chlamydia tests, new study suggests: But adding reminder in clinic computers ensures young women get both recommended health screens at the right time.»

Dr. Catalona, who was the first physician in the U.S. to run the phi test, added, «However, the problem is that higher levels of PSA can also be caused by a benign enlargement or inflammation of the prostate, leading to many false ‐ positives for cancer and ultimately unnecessarily invasive biopsies and an increased potential for patient harm.»

Defining the protective mechanisms normally preventing lung infections in most young healthy adults will lead to tests identifying who is susceptible and new approaches for preventing and treating the infections,» added Mizgerd.

To test this hypothesis, a team led by microbiologist Martin Blaser of the New York University School of Medicine in New York City added antibiotics to the drinking water of mice that had just been weaned.

Inappropriate testing for heart attacks increases the cost of treatment; increases the number of false positives, which could lead to further testing and unnecessary consultations; and adds to patient anxiety, said Dr. Anil Makam, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern and first author of the study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

«Alterations of metabolism in general are key to diabetes, and studies like this may have huge potential for unraveling new pathways which will lead to developing new drugs and new diagnostic tests,» she adds.

«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.

«Marketed as a food, so it does not require testing, and added in amounts so small that is does not need to be labeled, this neurotropic compound can interfere with our natural taste for salt, leading to severe deficiencies.

I can confirm that a strict fruitarian diet can certainly lead to low protein levels... as a strict fruitarian for a number of years (2 - 3 I estimate, but actually 5 if i count the time i ate minimal amounts of salad materials as well...), I had blood tests done at the end of this time and indeed my protein levels were low... Total protein was at 6.5 when the ideal is supposedly 7.5... And apart from this, my sports performance as judged by my teachers, was suffering (though I did not feel this in my own body — I was used to performing at that level and felt it as normal for me... and i was newer to the sport than a lot of them... i had great, better than most endurance... which was very satisfying... but apparently I just did not have the physical strength that others with less endurance may have had...) something which immediately improved as I added more protein to my diet....

Tinder, one of the leading hook - up sites today, developed an interesting add - on that would help their registered users locate the nearest STD testing center in their vicinity in apparent bid to settle the company's beef with AIDS Healthcare Foundation that started last September.

On the other hand, Articulate Presenter is a more enriched and modern authoring tool, and the ability to add quizzes, tests and interactions leads to the design of complete eLearning educational material that is interactive and keeps the learner interested and engaged to the course.

Some, including Jefferson Parish School Board Superintendent James Meza fear that value added testing leads teachers to simply teach to the test, and that early learning indicators known as DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) scores can easily become the goal rather than the method.

If Tennessee had the most «growth» of any state on the latest NAEP results led by our state teachers, why were their promised salaries a lower priority than unproven PARCC Testing or adding Media / Marketing and Event Coordinators at the Tennessee Department of Education?

But an «ineffective» rating on either the value - added side or the classroom observations will automatically lead to an overall rating of ineffective as well, meaning that in some cases either test results or observations will determine the entire outcome.

REVIEWS «When the Obama Administration decided to spend the billions it got for schools as part of the stimulus package to launch the Race to the Top program and the NCLB waivers, forcing many states to adopt teacher evaluation based on changes in student test scores, leading experts warned that this «value added» system did not have a reliable scientific basis and would often lead to false conclusions.

The transition to the new Common Core tests will introduce many conditions that could lead to changes in teachers» value - added.

If value - added scores from different tests lead to different conclusions about a teacher, then we may worry that value - added from any single test provides an incomplete picture of a teacher's effectiveness, and that using it to make decisions about teachers may be inefficient or, for some teachers, unfair.

If students» scores on the old tests are weak predictors of their performance on the new tests, it could lead to error in value - added.

Because changing the test is very likely to lead to changes in value - added for some teachers, states may want to prepare: they may want to thoroughly investigate how value - added changes from the years before the Common Core test to the first years after it.

Given the growing understanding that value added measures (VAMs) of teacher effectiveness rely upon tests not designed to detect teacher input, are highly unstable, and can not account for teacher impact on variability among student scores, it is quite apt that Dr. Audrey Amrein - Beardsley of Arizona State University and a leading researcher on value - added measures, described the proposal as going from «bad to idiotic.»

The Corolla SE is a Philadelphia favorite, as it takes the time - tested Corolla design — with spacious seating, industry - leading reliability, and refined ride quality — and adds paddle shifters, sport front seats, a sport - style gauge cluster, and a deck lid spoiler.

The Corolla SE is a Philadelphia favorite, as it takes the time - tested Corolla design — with spacious seating, industry - leading reliability, and refined ride quality — and adds paddle shifters, sport front seats, a sport - style gauge cluster

Cadenza is a Test Drive top pick in this class, especially when you add in the class leading 100,000 mile, 10 - year powertrain warranty.

The test purchased the top 3 ETFs and rebalanced semi-monthly (twice per month), which leads to higher turnover although with the introduction of free ETF trades and free equity trades, the added cost of commissions could be minimal.

With your help, we will continue to add even more cutting - edge research into our industry - leading Dog DNA health test — so that we can help more families live healthier and happier together, for longer.

- for Sonic's 25th anniversary last year, Iizuka received a task to deliver some sort of product - the target was «dormant fans» who used to play the SEGA Genesis, but haven't really played any games since - Iizuka met Christian Whitehead, which lead to the creation of Sonic Mania - there was talk of another port, but Iizuka thought fans would desire something new from the old games - this is the first time Iizuka partnered with a team of devs spread across various countries - Iizuka said this team had a greater passion to create - this was in comparison to companies that set decisions on a pre-determined schedule (in meetings, etc)- the team had so many features they still wanted to add after the beta version was complete - since there were only a few spots with text that needed to be localized, they could bring the game to more places quicker - the game has Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish support - the Studiopolis stage is included due to receiving the most requests from the Sonic Mania development team - Iizuka actually considered reducing the amount of stages at one point in order to meet the development schedule - Sonic Mania doesn't really have much in the way of cut content like scrapped stages - since Sonic Mania was only distributed digitally, the team was able to continue working very close leading up to launch - this let them put in practically all ideas, and there are currently no plans for DLC - Iizuka recommended Flying Battery Zone for inclusion becaues he likes the music - he also likes when the player goes inside and outside the ship - Iizuka likes Mirage Saloon because the stage structure will be different depending on the player character chosen - Puyo Puyo gameplay was added because there was a Puyo Puyo game released in the west for the SEGA Genesis - this game was originally called «Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine», and the team thought it would make a fun boss battle - Iizuka didn't have plans to feature Blue Sphere in the special stages - the Blue Sphere special stages were brought over to Mania as a test, but ended up staying for the final game - the team felt the need to continuously connect stages from various eras, which is doe with the Phantom Ruby story - for Sonic Mania, it was decided that the technological limit would be set at SEGA CD, - this is higher than the Genesis but lower than Saturn - in creating a SEGA CD - grade special stage, they would intentionally make SEGA CD - grade polygons

Their fear was that the test would lead to substantially more Tax Court appeals and thereby add more stress to an already over-burdened court system.

Programmers operate on certain premises and presumptions that are not tested by anybody else, which leads to results based on those premises and presumptions that in turn give rise to bias, adds Kerr.

From our testing, it appears that this has been a «feature» of Hydrogen OS for quite a while now, and was not added to Oxygen OS until the community builds leading up to the Nougat release (after the two ROMs were merged).

The contradictory signals by the ruling Congress's Rahul Gandhi visiting the Sringeri Mutt and Siddaramaiah openly indulging in divisive appeasement politics, are also being tested,» claims the report, which adds that upcoming election is also a trial for the new political alignment that is taking shape at the national level: «If Congress fails to take entire opposition along in Karnataka, it will be a question mark on the ability of the party to lead at the national level.»

As an industry partner, Rabobank will add its own experts to Nexuslab's roster of mentors, contributing its leading know - how and expertise to help participants build and refine their business models and test their ideas against real - world requirements.

PROFILE Combat - tested leadership skills combined with exceptional abilities in leading and managing the development of program deliverables and or projects for the U.S. government: program performance evaluations and strategies, customer value - added initiatives, knowledge management activities, and system and security performance improvements.