The NYT reports today that «A new DNA test for the virus that causes cervical cancer does so much
better than current methods that some gynecologists hope it will eventually replace the Pap smear in wealthy countries and cruder tests
Not exact matches
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.
«Using imaging tests to detect disease in carotid or coronary arteries before it causes symptoms can
better identify healthy individuals at increased risk
than our
current, traditional risk assessment
methods,» says the study's principal investigator Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician - in - Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital.
Their study showed it is possible to release such data to the public for analysis and guarantee it safe against unwanted leaks, with comparable or even
better accuracy of the results
than current methods — which don't make similar privacy guarantees.
The
method is much less cumbersome
than dealing with chicken eggs, and because the vaccine is so easy to produce, the company intends to use 135 micrograms of hemagglutinin in each dose of vaccine — 3 times higher
than current flu vaccines — in hopes of getting
better protection.
Saying
current noninvasive approaches for detection of urothelial cancer are suboptimal, researchers wanted to develop a test for bladder and UTUC cancer that would allow it to be found sooner and cheaper
than current methods using cytology, which is not particularly sensitive and does not do
well in detecting low - grade bladder cancer or UTUC.
Each alternative performed
better at predicting regional mortality
than the
current Medicare diagnosis - based
method.
And, soon, A.I. will be used to «read» biomedical images more accurately
than medical personnel alone — providing
better early cervical cancer detection at lower cost
than current methods.
Using an e-cloth and just water can give your home the
best clean it's ever had with less effort and expense
than your
current cleaning
method.
The
best current method to test for ketones is using a blood meter, which is much more accurate
than urine testing.
Uppsala physicists have in an international collaboration developed a new
method for creating laser pulses which are shorter, have much higher intensity and cover the THz frequency range
better than current sources.
They now wondered, were
better teaching
methods than their
current practices?
The performance of these systems is excellent: (i) the transistors have characteristics (e.g., on and off
currents, etc.) that are comparable to, or
better than, those of similar devices fabricated on rigid silicon supports by using conventional photolithographic
methods, and (ii) the optical characteristics (e.g., switching time, contrast ratio, etc.) of the resulting displays are as
good as those of low - resolution signs that use similar electronic inks and direct - drive dressing schemes.
I have a
current interest in finding instances were Bayesian
methods are
better applied
than frequentist ones.
The same could be true of the next generation of lawyers and their
current legal research professors.2 We have likely reached a point at which our frames of reference diverge sufficiently that we don't share a common reference point for approaching the structure of legal research.3 Arguably, the tech - saturated millennials need a solid research foundation more
than any generation before them.4 Yet many of them regard our legal research instruction as cumbersome or outdated.5 Having grown up using intuitive electronic devices, and using them to
good advantage, 6 many modern law students resist legal research
methods that require rigidity, formality, or — worst of all — a trip to a print library.7 Indeed, many of them are downright «mistrustful both of physical libraries and of those who extol their virtues.»
The sifting - for - gold - with - a-tin-pan-in-a-creek
method of hopefully discovering nuggets of professionalism within the
current Realtor production business is nothing more
than a crap shoot at
best, and a waste of peoples» time and money, not to mention the publics» trust, at worst.
Although many companies have produced a multitude of algorithms and
methods of gathering property value information, there will never be a
better and more accurate
method of finding the
current value of a home
than having a qualified agent or appraiser determine the value.