Sentences with phrase «evidence from test»

The evidence from test scores and graduation rates show that the schools are at least holding their own, and even doing somewhat better.

Prompt them to use the criteria and constraints and the evidence from testing to support their answers.

It appears that it is straightforward to analyze mathematics materials — we now have evidence from tests, standards, textbooks, and teacher - created assignments / assessments that we can do this quite well.

This article seeks to answer these questions by reviewing evidence from tests of mediation conducted in evaluations of family - focused interventions.

Not exact matches

As evidenced by the video and recent reports from test patients, the gear is a big hit (here's a photo gallery).

In the same announcement, the FDA said it cleared the first carrier screening test from 23andMe, which was forced to pull its health tests from the market in 2013 due to a lack of scientific evidence.

That research will be crucial: An earlier effort by another company, Pathway Genomics, to create a «liquid biopsy» for cancer was greeted in September by a stern letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning that the agency had «not found any published evidence that this test or any similar test has been clinically validated as a screening tool for early detection of cancer in high risk individuals.»

The Innocence Project is now seeking to get untested physical evidence from Hae's murder case tested to see if there's a match to any other suspect.

In summary, evidence from simple tests with available data (about 16.5 years) does not support a belief that investors can reliably capture a value premium via popular value - growth ETFs.

Regarding evolution the fact (Primewonk's definition) and evolution the scientific theory (the well - tested and validated explanation for extant and extinct biodiversity stemming from physical evidence from every relevant scientific discipline), they stand on their own evidence regardless of how exactly the first replicators appeared.

What appears from a Whiteheadian point of view to be truly postmodern is the emergence of new root metaphors or paradigms, radically thought through, and rigorously tested against the whole range of evidence.

If I make a statement about the objective world, which includes everything apart from my subjective world: my thoughts, my feelings, my beliefs, etc., I need to back it up with empirical evidence that can be tested and retested experimentally.

«Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers in North Carolina,» a talk by Kirabo Jackson

While only a limited number of helmets were retrofitted with the Shockbox sensor, the anecdotal evidence we gained from our admittedly unscientific beta test were very encouraging:

Later evidence of the effects of Xanax on breastfeeding babies was gathered from current cases, not through studies and tests.

Although there's no definitive evidence resulting from tests carried out on humans that BPA is dangerous, it's advisable to choose BPA free bottles.

The evidence is compelling: Two elementary schools in North Carolina were able to increase the achievement - test scores of students from the 30th percentile up to the 83rd percentile over a three - year period.

Again, this isn't completely clear: most of the evidence so far comes from tests on animals, although there has been one proper randomised controlled trial, published in December, by KCL colleagues of Di Forti's.

Because to do so brings back evidence and testing to a law which is intended to eradicate them from drug policy.

Mr Clarke said the investigation of all the evidence available, some of which was from surveillance before the alleged plot was made public on August 10th, would take «many months» and involve thousands of forensic examinations such as DNA testing.

The budget also removed the requirement for individuals in correctional facilities to give written consent for HIV testing, encouraged high - risk populations to use condoms by prohibiting prosecutors from using them as evidence in prostitution cases, and made it legal to possess syringes obtained through a syringe access program.

Forensic anthropology, innovative genetic testing, statistical analysis and geospatial technology are some of the tools scientists use to collect evidence of mass executions, reunite children separated from their families, and track the destruction of cultural heritage sites in partnerships with non-profit organizations and human rights organizations dealing with atrocities unfolding across the globe.

Working together, they will develop and test a variety of learning experiences in which students use online simulations to model energy - releasing and energy - requiring reactions, analyze and interpret data to make predictions about energy phenomena, and use evidence from their own observations or from simplified versions of scientific articles to explain phenomena and construct and critique arguments.

Solid evidence for this stress inoculation concept comes from tests on squirrel monkeys.

Through brain imaging, Baycrest scientists have found evidence that the brain uses eye movements to help people recall vivid moments from the past, paving the way for the development of visual tests that could alert doctors earlier about those at risk for neurodegenerative illnesses.

In the face of these controversies, changing our practice of laboratory test monitoring relies not only on evidence provided by key studies such as this one but may additionally require discussion within the dermatology community and possibly even endorsement or guidelines issued from key opinion leaders to gain wide acceptance,» write Eleni Linos, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.PH., of the University of California, San Francisco, and coauthors in a related editorial.

The researchers tested samples of brain cells from people with MS and healthy control subjects and found evidence of the virus in the olfactory bulb in both groups.

In further tests, researchers stimulated sensitive long hairs on the spider's legs and body — previously known to pick up near - field airflow and vibrations — which generated a response in the same neurons that fired after hearing distant sounds, providing evidence the hairs are likely detecting nanoscale air particles that become excited from a sound wave.

There is no evidence that patients have suffered harm from these drugs; the FDA says it has detected no increase in reports of side effects or lack of efficacy among Cetero - tested medications.

The different tests had highly variable results, but overall, most studies from both 2003 - 2004 and 2013 - 2014 appeared to have some real (though weak) evidence to support their findings.

Today's catch phrase is «evidence - based medicine,» and that «evidence» typically takes the form of results from clinical trials, in which potential treatments are tested on large groups of people.

But the more powerful evidence of the device's utility is revealed in the response of some of the subjects from outside the lab who have tested out the ankle, and their loved ones watching them walk.

«One of the surprising findings from this study was that even the subjects who had extreme exposure — two subjects who went to a music festival with 16 hours of exposure at 101 to 103 dBA (A-weighted decibels), which is around 1,000 percent of the daily occupational noise limit — had only temporary changes on some functional tests, with no evidence of permanent pathology,» Le Prell said.

Many countries are currently considering switching from classic Pap tests to primary HPV tests for cervical cancer screening, based on the strong evidence linking cervical abnormalities and infection with certain HPV types, and data suggesting that HPV tests detect more high - grade precancerous lesions.

Evidence on the use of validated screening questionnaires in asymptomatic adults (or adults with unrecognized symptoms) to accurately identify who will benefit from further testing for OSA is inadequate.

Rather than ordinary spot - testing approaches, which look for unnatural ratios between biological constituents in a single sample or for direct chemical evidence of known doping agents, the passport allows investigators to see the big picture — any deviations from the rider's test - established norm that might result from doping, even if the specific drug or tactic remains unknown.

This testing is especially so in regions close to a black hole, according to Chen, because the current evidence for Einstein's general relativity — light bending by the sun, for example — mainly comes from regions where the gravitational field is very weak, or regions far away from a black hole.

Joseph Kable at the University of Pennsylvania and his colleagues have tested the popular Luminosity brain - training program from Lumos Labs in San Francisco, California, against other computer games and found no evidence that it is any better at improving your thinking skills.

By analyzing evidence from mammoth tusks, Fisher and his students can test those predictions.

Yet all the evidence suggests that people — from the patient to the doctor to the insurance provider — are not prepared or not willing to deal with the complexity of information such tests can produce.

Evidence from the samples they gathered and tested showed that human wastewater nitrogen from septic systems was a major contributor to the high nitrogen concentrations in the estuary and downstream coastal reefs, the latter representing the northernmost extent of coral growth in South Florida.

As part of the study, more than 250 UK and Ireland healthcare and other workers were tested for Ebola virus antibodies after returning from West Africa — no evidence of missed infections was found.

Tests of biological samples from survivors showed «definitive evidence of exposure to sarin» for most.

Yet much of the evidence cited by smart drug enthusiasts comes from animal experiments which can, by virtue of their design, test only a drug's effect on learning, not recall.

Ostrer and Behar found no such link, however, and Richards's team, which sampled mtDNAs from Asia and the Caucasus specifically to test this idea, also found no evidence for it.

The US evidence is likely to provoke demands for other countries to face up to the death toll from nuclear tests.

Now, William Cooper Jr of Indiana University — Purdue University in Fort Wayne has tested Darwin's hypothesis on 66 species of lizards from around the world and found that island dwellers tended to be more docile than their continental relatives — the strongest evidence yet for this classic idea.

However, evidence from both small - scale, intensive interventions and Head Start suggest that despite this convergence on test scores, there are long - term effects on important societal outcomes such as years of education completed, earnings, and reduced crime and teen pregnancy.

To explore a potential link between the outbreak and associated illness in humans, we blindly tested available sera from titi monkeys (n = 59), rhesus macaques housed in the same building (n = 36), CNPRC personnel and close contacts (n = 20), and random human blood donors (n = 81) for evidence of recent or prior infection by TMAdV by virus neutralization (Fig. 6).

Convincing evidence for the role of NGF in the formation of neural circuits in the sympathetic nervous system has come from both animal and test - tube experiments.