Sentences with phrase «comparison tests by»

But despite the Ford F - 250 Super Duty's slim loss to the Ram, it won the comparison test by virtue of its ability to woo the five PickupTrucks.com judges.

In a March 2010 comparison test by Car and Driver, the Infiniti G37 Convertible came in third place out of four cars in a convertible comparison behind the BMW 328i and Audi A5.

Hence why it takes this comparison test by a very narrow margin.

In a January 2011 comparison test by Car and Driver, the Land Rover LR4 came in fourth place out of five cars behind the Audi Q7, BMW X5, and Acura MDX.

Not exact matches

By comparison, a stress test on America's largest banks in 2009 found that in a worst - case scenario, losses at the 19 banks would hit 9.1 % of their loan portfolio, although, admittedly, many believe in reality it was far higher.

Costco has long held a reputation for offering some of the best prices on medications, though it was recently undersold substantially by a relatively unknown competitor in a price - comparison test done by Consumer Reports.

Social science would test this hypothesis by careful comparison of parallel situations.

We then test those standards before bottling by subjecting our wines to honest, blind tasting comparison with fine wines from the rest of the world.

I divided it into two portions, whisking a different cacao powder into each serving, then did a side - by - side taste - test and comparison.

As with other neuropsychological testing tools, the value of the SAC in concussion assessment is maximized when individual baseline test data is available because, without such baselines, the athlete's postinjury performance on neuropsychological testing and other concussion assessment measures, such as the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population sample.

Comparison between groups was performed by means of the χ2 test.

Recognizing the educational challenges represented by children in poverty, who are not fluent in English or have other special needs, the Bloomberg administration — even as it relentlessly encouraged the growth of charter schools — built a citywide methodology designed to look past simple comparisons of average school scores on state tests.

By comparison, tests using cerebral spinal fluid — currently used to detect sporadic CJD — were 77 percent sensitive and 100 percent specific, and the results took twice as long to obtain.

But a detailed study of students» performance on TIMSS as well as on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), another widely reported international comparison test, by B. Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration and Hal Salzman of the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., suggests otherwise.

«We do show that obstructive coronary artery disease and myocardial ischemia remain the strongest predictors of future cardiovascular events, but for the first time, in a randomized comparison we demonstrate the ability of CT angiography (CTA) to identify a large group of at - risk patients who would have been missed by functional stress testing,» says Hoffmann, who is director of the MGH Cardiac MR PET CT Program.

To test this, the researchers did a side - by - side comparison with cells isolated from elephants (n = 8), healthy humans (n = 10), and from patients with Li - Fraumeni Syndrome (n = 10).

«More selective HIV screening is thought to miss more cases, but there have never been well - designed comparison studies on which targeting criteria are best,» he says, «so with this study, we hypothesized that by using very broad criteria and applying sufficient resources to test everyone who met those criteria, we could detect nearly as many cases as universal screening but still use many fewer tests.»

By comparison, say health officials, the threat to most office workers is low and the decision to test all staff at the World Trade Center was an overreaction.

The results reveal that, after a comparison at national level, the vast number of substances tested show a clearly higher average consumption — thus more contaminant emissions — by private households than health care facilities.

Antibody treatment conferred significant protection as determined by comparison of weights in untreated versus prophylaxis and at the time of treatment versus 12 d after infection (unpaired, two - tailed Student's t test, P < 0.05).

The functional brain networks showed a clear small - world organization, expressed by λ ≈ 1 (c) and γ ≫ 1 (d) for T ≥ 0.3 (1 - sample t test, df = 18, all p < α of 0.01, Bonferroni corrected for multiple comparisons of T).

Individual differences were studied by the Tukey's multiple comparison test.

But Lanciotti said comparison tests in his lab, and a study conducted independently by the Blood Systems Research Institute in San Francisco, California, found that Trioplex failed to detect viral DNA in up to 39 % of samples that the Singleplex test had indicated contained Zika.

All measures in cases versus controls were compared by 2 - tailed t tests with Bonferroni's correction for 6 comparisons per species.

The functional brain networks showed a clear small - world organization for 0.3 ≤ T ≤ 0.5 (Fig. 1a — d), expressed by L ≈ Lrandom and λ ≈ 1 for T ≤ 0.5 and C ≫ Crandom and γ ≫ 1 for T ≥ 0.3 (one - sample t test, all p < α of 0.01, Bonferroni corrected for multiple comparisons of T, df = 18), indicating a small - world organization (Sporns et al., 2004; Stam, 2004; Achard et al., 2006; van den Heuvel et al., 2008b).

VAC2VAC stands for «Vaccine batch to vaccine batch comparison by consistency testing» and has the objective to deliver a proof of concept of consistency approach for batch release testing of established vaccines using sets of in vitro and analytical methods.

One - way ANOVA was used for three - group comparisons, followed by post-hoc multiple comparison tests (as specified in figure legend).

* p ≤ 0.05, ** p ≤ 0.01, *** p < 0.001, **** p < 0.0001 and non-significant (ns) p > 0.05 by Mann - Whitney test (A) and two - way ANOVA corrected for multiple comparison using Sidak's multiple comparison test (C).

For the calcium imaging data, Kruskal - Wallis rank sum test was performed for comparison followed by Holm - Bonferroni post-hoc test between four groups of samples (S6 Fig).

Comparisons involving multiple groups were evaluated using one - way or two - way ANOVA, followed by Tukey's post hoc test.

By comparison, blood tests can detect HIV antibodies just 20 to 21 days after a person first picks up the virus.

Differences between proportions available and consumed by sex and year were tested first with a simple comparison of proportions, and subsequently with a GLZ (binomial distribution and a logit link function).

Furthermore, a paired t - test that compared brain activity of 4 - mm radii of the peak coordinate identified by the comparison between individuals with ASD at the placebo session and typically developing participants showed a significant increase of the originally - diminished brain activity in the oxytocin session compared with placebo [t (19) = 2.716, r2 = 0.28, P = 0.007, one - tailed](Supplementary Fig. 1A).

The results obtained by quantitative PCR for the genes tested were consistent with the results using RNA - seq (cosine correlation = 0.89; P < 0.001), thus providing a validation of the analysis (SI Appendix, Table S5 lists full list of tissues and comparisons).

In fact in a recent study in 2016 on the «Strong Anti-inflammatory Effects of Curcumin» by Vetivicka and Vetivickova, demonstrated that only Curcumin C3 Complex had both anti-inflammatory and immunological activity in comparison to four other brands of generic 95 percent curcuminoids in both vitro and vivo testing.

Food editor Mary Margaret Chappell used this recipe to test the gluten - free flour blends featured in VT's brand by brand comparison -LRB-» «Flour Power,» December 2011, p. 42).

Alternative Cancer Treatments Comparison A large, well organized web site that provides side - by - side comparisons of 12 of the most well known alternative cancer treatments and offers a test kit containing 12 imprinted samples to help determine the most effective treatment for an individual.

Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate data generated by the ROBOCAT II (Alcat Test by Cell Science Systems), by comparison to another particle counter, the FACSCalibur (Becton - Dickinson), which in addition to particle size also measures 4 other parameters for each particle.

So I did a side by side comparison, one on each eye, to see which one pasted the test.

Furthermore, the team conduct hands - on testing by actually using many of the adult dating sites that are reviewed in order to provide effective reviews and comparisons.

«Test Shot Comparisons» (2:15) show us a handful of animation and effects tests, each followed by the corresponding clip from the final film.

Bonus features will include a Filmmakers» Audio Commentary (on the extended cut), «The Making of Pocahontas» documentary, an Early Presentation Reel with Introduction and Commentary, Storyboard - to - Film Comparison with Introduction and Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Production and Design Galleries, Abandonded Concepts, «The Making of «If I Never Knew You»» featurette, a featurette on the Central Park premiere, Animation Tests, Character Animation Featurettes, a Production Progression Reel, Music Featurette, a Multi-Language Clip Reel, two theatrical trailers, music videos of «Colors of the Wind» (performed by Vanessa Williams) and «If I Never Knew You» (performed by Jon Secada and Shanice), Sing Alongs of «Just Around the Riverbend» and «Colors of the Wind», the set - top game «Follow Your Heart», and 2 Disney's Art Projects «Build a Drum» and «Create a Dreamcatcher.»

Second - and third - grade students using the Seeds of Science / Roots of Reading units made significantly greater gains in understanding science concepts, knowledge of science vocabulary, and reading comprehension, as measured by tests developed by project researchers, compared to students in comparison conditions for both earth science and life science units.

A comparison to three classes with students from the same schools showed that students participating in the gardening project had higher science test scores, as measured by pretest and posttest scores on a science test developed for the program.

In comparison, an experimental study of class sizes in Tennessee finds that reducing class size by one - third increases test scores by 4 percentile points in the first year at a cost of $ 2,151 per student per year (in 1996 dollars).

For example, research suggests that error rates dropped from a first to a second test by about 45 per cent (comparison group with conventional lighting only 17 per cent) and cognitive speed improved by nine per cent (comparison group only five per cent).

In other words, citizens appear to be evaluating schools based on local comparisons or on information provided by their state testing system without taking into account the relative rigor of state standards.

The study by ctb / McGraw - Hill found that, in 1987, students in grades 1 to 8 who took its Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills scored an average of 6.63 percentile points higher in reading, 10.83 points higher in language, and 14 points higher in mathematics than a 1981 comparison group.

By way of comparison, the authors note that the impact of being assigned to a teacher in the top - quartile rather than one in the bottom quartile in terms of their total effect on student achievement as measured by student - test - based measures of teacher effectiveness is seven percentile points in reading and six points in matBy way of comparison, the authors note that the impact of being assigned to a teacher in the top - quartile rather than one in the bottom quartile in terms of their total effect on student achievement as measured by student - test - based measures of teacher effectiveness is seven percentile points in reading and six points in matby student - test - based measures of teacher effectiveness is seven percentile points in reading and six points in math.

I therefore estimate the effect of receiving a fail rating by comparing the May test results for schools inspected very early in the same academic year, the treatment group, with a comparison group of schools inspected after the test is taken in early May but before the results are released in July.