Sentences with phrase «adult test persons»

The Tuebingen study involved 67 healthy adult test persons, none of whom had previously had malaria.

Not exact matches

A study in the «Journal of Individual Differences» found that people who scored higher on IQ tests as children tended to be more curious and open to new ideas as adults.

If an adult experiences an acute, sudden onset of chest pain, most people would say that the decision about whether that person had or is having a heart attack should be made by a doctor, that if you suspect something serious is going on, it should be get it checked out right away by a medical professional, and that no smartphone app or test can - or should - take the doctor's place.

To test this idea, neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues scanned the brains of 10 congenitally blind adults as they answered questions about the beliefs of people described to them.

«We've tested our device in people ranging from 40 pounds to 300 pounds, children to adults, during night and day, with no restrictions on food or activity.»

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested 736 people, mostly adults, in six North Dakota cities and found that those who ate wild game had 50 percent more lead in their blood than those who did not eat it.

Interestingly, the CDC advises routine HIV screening of adults, adolescents and pregnant women in health care settings, but does not recommend universal testing for MRSA, which kills more people than HIV.

Designed to guide primary care physicians and other healthcare providers who see most children and adults with diarrhea, the guidelines note that the majority of people with diarrhea do not need to be tested.

To test the nasal vaccine in adults, researchers at 13 hospitals nationwide, led by Kristin Nichol of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, gave it to more than 2800 people in fall 1997; 1400 others got a placebo.

The Adult Decision - Making Competence test allows us to characterize the extent to which people are susceptible to specific types of biases that have been studied in the literature on human judgment and decision - making,» Barbey said.

In one test, the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy 2 — Adult Faces (DANVA2 - AF) test, they looked at a face for 2 seconds and decided whether the person appeared happy, angry, afraid, or sad.

CDC calculates that roughly 75 % of the infected population comes from the baby boomer generation: 3.25 % of people born in that «birth cohort» test positive for HCV, which is five times higher than adults born before 1945 or after 1965.

During the study, a group of 57 younger and older adults (between the ages of 17 to 23 and 60 to 86) were shown the faces and names of 24 different people and were tested on their memory right after.

In the conventional approach to measuring IQ, a person is given a standardized test, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, and their score on the test is assumed to reflect their level of intelligence (with some amount of random error).

Some of the earliest intelligence tests simply categorized all people over the age of 16 as «adults.»

The disease is most treatable and curable when caught early; however, about one in three adults between ages 50 and 75 (23 million people) are not getting tested as recommended.

While the current recommended daily allowance for vitamin D is a dismal 600 IU for adults and 800 IU for people over 70, breast cancer survivors are often told to consume 4,000 IU (or more) daily — depending on the results of current blood tests.

That's why we put all these adult dating websites to the test, so we can provide people with conclusive, clear results as to which of these online dating platforms actually work.

Research by Castelli and her colleagues has shown that the more fit the person — adult or child — the more quickly and accurately he or she responds, in comparison with unfit individuals, to cognitive tests.

Moreover, the aspects of civics that can be spelled out in academic standards and accurately assessed through statewide tests are almost entirely cognitive: well worth learning, to be sure, even a necessary precondition for successful adult life, but not exactly what people have in mind when they say that schools should forge «responsible citizens.»

In tests taken by 15 - and 16 - year - olds in 2012, before our education reforms had been implemented, England was the only country in the OECD in which the literacy and numeracy skills of young people were no better than those of their grandparents» generation: adults aged 55 - to - 65 performed better in literacy and numeracy than those aged 16 - to - 24.

Those involved in helping students prepare for the test say a lower bar to passing is an imperfect solution to a genuinely difficult problem — how to create an exam that is aligned to the tougher standards now being implemented in high schools, while addressing the fact that most of those trying to pass the exam — both young people who dropped out of high school years ago and adults — never had any exposure to the Common Core.

But the judge did not take up the question of what happens when kids and adults are punished for never passing tests and evaluations that fail some people by design.

Called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, researchers under the auspices of the Organization for Economic Cooperation tested over 160,000 persons ages 16 to -LSB-...]

But the judge did not take up the question of what happens when kids and adults are punished for never passing tests and evaluations that fail people by design.

These tests are what they are using to ruin people's lives - adults and children; and then they run around saying, «I'm for the kids.»

For this reason, we require people wishing to surrender adult dogs to take the animal to the vet for a simple blood test to look for the presence of heartworms.

Capacity for young persons is determined under the same statutory test as for adults; namely, ss.2 - 3 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

A far smaller proportion of disabled people placed in other settings, for example in adult foster care arrangements, may also be deprived of their liberty applying this simple test and a similar level of scrutiny will be required in those cases.

Beyond being passionate about safe driving teaching, our driving school is authorized by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to conduct the in - car «Road Skills Test» for any person that has completed their «Teen Driver Education» (16 to 17 years old), the «Adult Driver Education Course» (18 to 24 years old).

Adult Driving lessons — Develop the the necessary skills and confidence that will allow a person to drive competently, safely and pass the drive test.

While conducting this experiment I tested the tracking problems on the height range of three different people; An 8 - year - old child, a 5 «0 adult, and a 6 «3 adult.

Data were collected with the help of psychology students who voluntarily administered the test battery to 15 adult persons of their social environment.