Sentences with phrase «by traditional tests»

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There's even a small study coauthored by Holmes and published in an online journal that compares Theranos test results with traditional tests favorably, though it looks only at results for one characteristic of blood among six people.

From this and the work Volvo is doing with Microsoft, it seems clear that the traditional test - drive will soon be augmented by the living room experience.

Fueled by $ 154 million from investors, Ginkgo recently opened its second «foundry,» an 18,000 - square - foot factory stocked with fermentation tanks, mass spectrometers, software, robots, and traditional bench biology tools to design, build, and test DNA.

Blockchain is also being tested by retailers like Wal - Mart Stores Inc. for ensuring food safety, as industries explore what advantages the technology might hold over traditional databases.

Theranos is a diagnostics company with fast finger - prick blood testing technology that aims to upend the traditional health care establishments by making it easier, less expensive and less uncomfortable to get tested for various conditions.

But it's struggling to turn a profit, lacks some advantages of traditional banks and has yet to be tested by an economic slump.

By challenging ride - sharing pioneers like Uber and Lyft Inc., as well as traditional taxis, Google is providing the clearest indication yet how it plans to make money from self - driving automotive technologies that it began testing in 2009.

The system is part of the agency's UAS Data Exchange umbrella, which aims to facilitate drone registration and help speed integration of the unmanned aircraft into the airspace used by traditional commercial and private manned aircraft.Last November, the FAA began testing the system at eight air route control centers, with the goal of ultimately covering 300 air traffic control facilities nationwide that monitor approximately 500 airports.

I read Mary Eberstadt's essay with great interest because, while my marriage doesn't suffer from (knock on wood, so to speak) a porn problem, it has been sorely tested by the more general problem she describes: the abandonment of traditional gender roles by the educated class and the ensuing confusions and strains when the baby arrives» that is, when the rubber hits the road.

By comparing the six campuses that required statements of faith from all entering students with the three campuses that did not, the study was able to test whether a more «insular» setting actually served better to protect the plausibility of traditional beliefs.

Even this test would be somewhat unfair to process theism because of religious conditioning by traditional theism, which makes it difficult for many people to take seriously the idea of a God without omnipotence in the traditional sense (see Griffin, God 258 - 59; Griffin, Evil 209 - 13).

Practical experience, accumulated wisdom and traditional and indigenous knowledge offer valid solutions, tested by time.

Laboratory tests (done on every batch shipped to the US) have continually confirmed that our traditional methods of testing the oil by sight (clarity), smell, and taste result in a very high quality oil.

Relying on sentiment and the old, tried and tested, and now archaic methods that once took them to the top of the European game — Kenny Dalglish back in the dug - out, with Stewart Downing and Andy Carroll signed to seemingly play a traditional big man, small partnership next to Luis Suarez, served by the crosses of an old - fashioned wide - man — was never going to be sustainable or successful.

I recently read the book «Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, «A's, Praise, and Other Bribes» by Alfie Kohn, a noted author and outspoken critic of traditional education, including grades, test scores, and homework.

Its poll ratings remain dangerously low and the traditional liberal incumbency, on which their entire electoral strategy of defence seems to be based, is going to be sorely tested by the unpopularity of governing.

Nudges — which are now being tested and implemented by government agencies in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, and the United States — diverge from traditional policy tools in that they encourage certain behaviors without restricting an individual's options or exacting financial penalties.

Thanks to the precise testing of Pm3 alleles, the best variations and combinations are identified and can then be used directly in traditional breeding by crossbreeding them into modern wheat varieties.

The computational problems involved in interpreting genomic tests are several orders of magnitude more challenging that those posed by scanning a database of 4.4 million traditional records, says John Lutz, IBM's vice president of on - demand business.

Our new electrophoresis method allows us to increase the number of test samples on a given run by up to ten-fold and to complete the assay in less than half the time of the traditional comet process.»

Rich and colleagues are now testing in mice whether combining Zika with traditional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy is more effective than either treatment by itself.

Laboratory tests indicate that the eCAPs work well against biofilms, which are bacterial communities that develop very high levels of resistance to antibiotics by working together to protect the film's inner bacteria from traditional treatments.

Patients with chest pain have similar rates of heart attacks and other major cardiac events within two years whether they were evaluated with a new type of CT scan or the traditional stress test, according to results presented today by Duke Medicine researchers at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology.

DNA testing by traditional forensic laboratories typically costs around $ 500 per sample; however, the goal is for Rapid DNA to cost less than $ 100 to process a sample.

Reviewer Julia Fahrenkamp - Uppenbrink and her daughter test drive a new subscription - based kit that seeks to appeal to modern chemistry enthusiasts by combining traditional experiments with virtual resources and mobile technologies.

Air New Zealand said yesterday that using a 50 percent blend of biofuel with traditional jet A-1 fuel can improve fuel efficiency by more than 1 percent, according to data collected during the December 2008 test flight.

Inspired by a New York Times article which features images of kids and their breakfasts from all over the world, the video production company Cut has created a new segment which features American children actually testing out traditional breakfasts from different countries.

The Foundation seeks to establish a laboratory to test nutrient content of foods, particularly butter produced under various conditions; to conduct research into the «X Factor,» discovered by Dr. Price; and to determine the effects of traditional preparation methods on nutrient content and availability in whole foods.

These factors are identified by means of a comprehensive medical examination including traditional and functional medicine laboratory testing.

Its name is derived from the term functional illness - but instead of assuming there's nothing wrong with the patient, Functional Medicine assumes that something was wrong with the diagnostic testing process, and most likely, there is a subtle malfunction in the biological processes of the patient, missed by traditional diagnostic testing.

By the same token, those on a traditional American Dietetic Association diet exhibited more confusion during the study tests.

Erasmus says that 0.5 to 1 percent of the oil's molecules are damaged by traditional processing techniques, and that some of these damaged molecules have been tested on animals and found very toxic.

OK Cupid broke that model by combining traditional «about me» profiles with a personality test a la 20 - questions.

OK Cupid broke that model by combining traditional «about me» profiles with a personality test a la 20 - questions — but customers can now select up to about 14,000.

In fact, the ways in which Aster defies traditional expectations is likely to make this a very divisive flick when it's released by A24 later this year, although these conversation - starters are typically the movies that last the test of time.

Whatever it was, it feels overpowered by the traditional, time - tested Bruckheimer milieu.

Middle school students engaged in Learning by Design (LBD) consistently outperformed students engaged in traditional instruction on tests of collaboration and metacognitive skills, such as checking work, designing fair tests, and explaining evidence.

Many of the schools chosen by the students were «better» on traditional indicators, such as student test scores and teacher characteristics.

Our work extends traditional validation methods by examining variations in generalizability within tests rather than only the generalizability of total scores.

However, simple tests we conducted, based on changes in the average previous - year test scores of students in schools affected and unaffected by charter - school competition, suggest that, if anything, the opposite phenomenon occurred: students switching from traditional public to charter schools appear to have been above - average performers compared with the other students in their school.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

Thus we use a method that in effect compares the test - score gains of individual students in charter schools with the test - score gains made by the same students when they were in traditional public schools.

A 2015 study by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found Newark charter schools outperformed traditional district schools: 77 percent of Newark's charters were more effective at raising test scores in reading, and 69 percent were more effective at raising scores in math.

Abstract: «While traditional classrooms wade through indexed text books chapter by chapter in order to pass Friday's test, a torrent of knowledge is streaming past and through the students on their cell phones.

A study released earlier this month by Mathematica finds that students attending charter high schools in Florida scored lower on achievement tests than students in traditional public schools, but years later, the charter students were more likely to have attended at least two years of college and also had higher earnings.

Such studies, which compare the annual gains made by students in charter schools with the gains made by the same student while attending a traditional public school, draw only on the experiences of students who were tested for at least two years in the regular public schools before attending a charter school.

Australia has a moved towards an online national curriculum supported by digital resources, and is already administering sample online national assessment and moving to an online system for full cohort national testing; but at the same time, traditional pen and paper testing remains a feature of many states» final year assessment regimes.

Many people say modern GCSE subjects are easier than the traditional Maths, English and Science papers sat by previous generations, but could you pass these tests yourself?

As a parent, it's critical that you know about alternative types of classroom - based assessments, in addition to traditional tests and the standardized tests mandated by your school district or state department of education.

Not as often discussed is our ability to use students» in - game actions as evidence for the assessment of skills and knowledge, including those not easily measured by traditional multiple - choice tests.