Sentences with phrase «conventional tests of»

All of the scales used to measure student knowledge about the plays, tolerance, ability to read the emotions of others, as well as interest in watching or participating in live theater, are either established or were validated with conventional tests of scale construction.

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The EWG claims that five pesticides were found on conventional cherries on average, while 30 % of cherry samples tested contained iprodione, which is a pesticide that is not allowed in Europe.

Earlier this summer, Ford Motor Company showed off how it was testing 3D printing technology to improve its manufacturing and create new prototypes of car parts more quickly than with conventional methods.

The EWG found that 90 % of conventional apples had detectable pesticide residues, while 80 % of the apples tested contained diphenylamine, a pesticide that is banned in Europe.

On this particular occasion, the D - Wave Two would have to pass five somewhat more mundane tests, pitting it against a variety of conventional processors.

India is also ramping up its nuclear and conventional deterrence against China by testing long - range missiles, raising a mountain strike corps for the border with China, enhancing submarine capabilities and basing its first squadron of French - made Rafale fighter jets near that border.

In the eyes of insurers, today's self - driving vehicles are treated no differently than conventional cars when they're involved in a collision, according to Maureen Brown of Munich Reinsurance America, a firm that insures a number of companies testing autonomous vehicles.

Multiple outlets published stories yesterday reporting that results from finger blood tests by medical startup Theranos showed greater irregularities than more conventional tests (according to the first published independent assessment of the company's tests).

In their November 2017 paper entitled «Exploring the Dynamic Relationships between Cryptocurrencies and Other Financial Assets», Shaen Corbet, Andrew Meegan, Charles Larkin, Brian Lucey and Larisa Yarovaya apply a battery of tests to analyze relationships: (1) among three cryptocurrencies; and, (2) between the cryptocurrencies and conventional asset classes.

In short, far from providing a clear explanation of how the economy works, conventional economics fails pretty much any test that it is given.

We can pay our full respect to the tested structures of authority in our common life, but all conventional human authorities easily assume a finality beyond their competence, and this is nowhere more dangerously true than in the high forms of spiritual authority which belong to religion and its institutions.

OMSCo (the Organic Milk Suppliers Cooperative) representing over 65 % of the UK's organic milk supply, announced that in 2015 organic milk had achieved comparable levels of iodine to conventional and in 2016, following recent testing of bottled milk, they announced these levels of iodine have been maintained.

The workflow of conventional technologies for food testing is straightforward: the chemist tells the analytical lab instrument what compounds to look for, and the instrument works to find them.

In Tropical Traditions» own testing of organic grains so far, they found that barley has among the highest levels of glyphosate of the organic crops, and this corresponds to conventional crops where the EPA has raised the limits of glyphosate in barley to a higher level than other grains.

Oven Test: Accelerated shelf life testing was conducted by aging 45 ml of Plenish ® high oleic soybean oil and conventional soybean oil in loosely capped, wide - mouth glass jars at 63 °C.

We have found that even wheat and other grains certified organic, or marketed as GMO - free (there currently is still no approved GMO variety of wheat commercially available in the market), will test for the presence of glyphosate, sometimes at levels nearly the same as conventional wheat.

I tested majority of conventional store bought flours that I could get.

The Mt. Shasta Ski Park has something for everyone with both day and night operations, miles of trails available to cater to all skill levels, 32 conventional trails for 425 skiable acres, and two terrain parks to test your skills on twists, jumps and rails.

Using a variety of complementary and alternative healing modalities and unique diagnostic testing allows us to devise a therapeutic program that is individually tailored to your child's specific needs, rather than the one - size - fits - all approach that is commonly used in conventional medicine.

It came as something of a shock, therefore, when Carey tested the conventional wisdom against empirical evidence.

A new screening tool for prostate cancer, the prostate - specific antigen test, enabled doctors to detect it earlier in more men, and patients were flocking to hospitals for low doses of conventional photon radiation.

In another ongoing study, psychiatrist Michael Mithoefer of Charleston, South Carolina, is testing MDMA (3,4 - methylenedioxymethamphetamine) on people suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including rape victims and Iraq War veterans who have not gotten any relief from conventional treatments such as antidepressants and therapy.

The scientists also tested the therapy on tumors taken from two patients who had not responded to conventional therapy for their glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer.

Conventional smear tests, which rely on visual inspection of cervical cells, spotted only 76 %.

For the conventional «Pap» smear test, cells are scraped from around the cervix — the neck of the womb — and «smeared» on to a slide.

The study is the first large - scale, U.S. - wide comparison of organic and conventional milk, testing nearly 400 samples of organic and conventional milk over an 18 - month period.

The number of new FDA - approved diagnostic tests for blood has remained static at zero - to - two per year for the past 15 years, indicating that conventional approaches to identify and validate new blood - based diagnostic tests have reached a plateau.

Now a team led by Matthias Troyer of ETH Zurich in Switzerland has tested a D - Wave Two computer against a conventional machine running an optimised algorithm — and found no evidence of superior performance in the quantum device.

These comprised not only «conventional» behavioral studies, but also the physical effects on the brains of test participants by measuring the Blood Oxygen Level - dependent (BOLD) response using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans.

Behavioral wavelength discrimination tests (Δλ functions) in stomatopods revealed a surprisingly poor performance, ruling out color vision that makes use of the conventional color - opponent coding system (6 — 8).

In addition to providing insights regarding selection of treatment, this blood test may also prove helpful in assessing the presence of residual disease, recurrence, or relapse and detection of therapy - resistant cancer cells more quickly than conventional tissue - based methods.

Conventional genetic screening looks for specific mutated sequences of DNA, but the Dutch test simply searches for proteins which are shorter than those produced by healthy genes.

Similarly, if replacing the lowest - ranked school in the survey with a top - quintile school, student test scores would improve by 0.39 of a standard deviation using a conventional VAM, and 0.53 of a standard deviation when using the MIT team's own VAM method.

Its performance barely dipped by two percent, as compared to the drop of up to 75 percent for conventional coatings when subjected to weathering tests in the lab.

«We have tested the fiber device for 10,000 charge / discharge cycles, and the device retains about 93 percent of its original performance,» Yu said,» while conventional rechargeable batteries have a lifetime of less than 1000 cycles.»

A new therapeutic approach tested by a team from Maisonneuve - Rosemont Hospital (CIUSSS - EST, Montreal) and the University of Montreal gives promising results for the treatment of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow currently considered incurable with conventional chemotherapy and for which the average life expectancy is about 6 or 7 years.

«We wanted to test the conventional wisdom and see if people with high levels of HA antibodies were less likely to develop mild - to - moderate influenza compared with those with lower HA antibody levels.»

In the arrangement they are currently developing, one pulse of photons would then be sent at a person, whereas the other would be sent at a conventional photon detector to test what the volunteer saw, Gisin says.

«The Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress estimated that fewer than 30 percent of procedures currently used in conventional medicine have been rigorously tested.

Because this damage is difficult to detect with conventional hearing tests, this type of injury has been referred to as hidden hearing loss.

Fish and engineer colleagues tested 57 - centimeter - long scale models of humpback flippers in a wind tunnel and found that they outperformed conventional straight - edged wings.

«We chose to attack the problem using machine learning implemented on a D - Wave quantum annealer, in order to test our ability to translate complicated real - life biology problems to the setting of quantum machine learning, and to look for any advantages this approach might offer over more conventional, yet state - of - the - art classical machine learning techniques,» Lidar added.

Carroll says that his system can double the efficiency of conventional panels, and he will soon send out a sample FiberCell for independent performance testing.

After all, when someone is suspected of a crime, or charged, a conventional DNA fingerprinting test can determine if his or her DNA matches traces found at the crime scene.

Being able to study quantum systems with a large number of components — or «qubits,» as they are often called — also has important implications for future quantum technologies, as Carleo points out: «If we want to test quantum computers with more than a handful of qubits, that won't be possible with conventional means because of the exponential scaling.

To study brain cell's operation and test the effect of medication on individual cells, the conventional Petri dish with flat electrodes is not sufficient.

«In proof - of - concept testing, our process was much faster than any heterogeneous techniques, but still marginally slower than conventional homogeneous processes,» Abolhasani says.

When researchers tested one of the antennas in a specially insulated room, they found that compared to a conventional ring antenna of the same size, it sent and received 2.5 gigahertz signals about 100,000 times more efficiently, they report today in Nature Communications.

Conventional technology such as mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance can measure such components — that is how biochemists test the toxicity of drugs or environmental pollutants on human cells.

While the 3D injectable scaffold is being tested in mice as a potential cancer vaccine, any combination of different antigens and drugs could be loaded into the scaffold, meaning it could also be used to treat infectious diseases that may be resistant to conventional treatments.