Sentences with phrase «existing tests»

Compared with four existing tests for the same marker, the new one was 1,000 to 10,000 times more sensitive.

Test cases are written for scheduling and execution of tests, evaluated existing test case accuracy and coverage.

Nevertheless, the evidence reviewed above demonstrates that differences in performance on existing tests have significant implications for both individual and aggregate success.

But using existing test results to evaluate teachers is a bad idea.

In short: The new method can easily be integrated into existing test setups — and at no extra cost to manufacturers.

Teachers can choose from existing tests, devise their own or use a combination of the two.

Additionally, student achievement tests will be administered and / or existing test scores will be collected, and classroom observations will be conducted.

Educators looked at the best existing tests, as well as emerging, innovative testing practices in order to create Smarter Balanced assessments.

The program can be used for practice by parents, parents can use existing tests and let their kids practice tests in guest mode from home.

Smarter Balanced assessments replace existing tests in English and math.

«In existing tests, people must have different examinations according to the type of cancer they have», says Takaaki Hirotsu from Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, who co-led the work.

Unlike existing testing programs, Sample6 is using synthetic biology to develop a test that can be completed in a matter of hours rather than days.

Unlike existing tests, the new diagnostic does not cross-react with Dengue virus, a close relative of the Zika virus that can produce false positives on many Zika tests.

Identifies and enrolls eligible students through existing test scores, administering tests, and / or other acceptable methods as required by Catapult, local, state, and / or federal agencies.

The report explains that existing test fleets of self - driving vehicles would take tens or even hundreds of years to drive the number of miles necessary for performing a statistically significant safety comparison.

deCODE will employ its CLIA - registered genotyping laboratory and existing testing platform to swiftly integrate the finding into its deCODEme ™ personal genome scan, and to assess the addition of this new variant to the company's deCODE T2 ™ reference laboratory test for assesing individual risk of type 2 diabetes.

Only among teachers does there appear a nontrivial segment of the population that opposes existing testing practices.

Describing England's existing testing regime as too «intensive» and «standardised», Leadbeater warned it did not offer enough scope for imagination, creativity and «all the things that will become important in the real world».

«You read about all of these places where they decided to throw out PARCC or Smarter Balanced and then they are working feverishly to cobble together a test from existing test items,» said Polikoff.

Adapt existing test / assessment so that specific parts of the test only have to be completed by specific groups of students

Environmental groups have long complained that existing tests understate the amount of pollution that cars generate under real driving conditions.

The new simulator expands existing testing capabilities such as text input, JSON debugging, and visual display by adding features like the ability to test multi-turn conversation, entity resolution, dialog management, and more.

Participated in refining existing test processes as well as defined and implemented new testing processes to ensure continuous quality improvement.

Most existing test anxiety scales are conceptually related to the TAI in that they contain the identified worry and emotionality components of test anxiety (e.g., the Worry - Emotionality Questionnaire (W - E Q) Liebert & Morris (1967); the Inventory of Test Anxiety (ITA)(Osterhouse, 1975); and the State Test Anxiety Scale (STAS)(Hong, 1998).

To assess its effect, potentially «just 2 weeks after injection and lasting 3 months,» the team will use a series of existing tests to measure three parameters: high sexual arousal, self - regulation, and empathy.

That lack of a perfect model, and the reliance on existing tests to move ahead with his ambitious plans, lies at the heart of his left - wing critics» disapproval.

After reading reports of how quickly the disease was spreading through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, Hallisey felt moved to help, and with encouragement from her science research teacher, she looked into existing tests for Ebola.

In January, GM introduced a car - sharing service Maven, which combines and expands several of the automaker's existing test programs under one brand.

New tests to detect early Lyme disease — which is increasing beyond the summer months - could replace existing tests that often do not clearly identify the infection before health problems occur.

The program can be used for practice by teachers, teachers can use existing tests and let their students practice tests in guest mode from home, classroom or computer lab.

A new age of biotechnology promises bigger, faster, better bodies — and no existing tests will catch it.

«It is particularly important for pregnant women to reliably know whether they have Zika viruses in their blood or not,» explains Prof Felix Drexler who, together with Prof Christian Drosten and his team from the University of Bonn, has now carefully examined the existing tests.

«Based on the ingredients and the complexity, the miRNA test should be significantly cheaper than any existing test,» Chowdhury says.

Existing tests are fast and accurate — but they rely on sophisticated laboratories, expensive machinery and meticulous work, says Dipanjan Chowdhury, a radiation oncologist at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute.

«Through an objective review of the existing tests and the scientific literature characterizing their performance, we are seeking to help clinicians make the best decisions for their patients.»

Krupitzer admitted lightweight cars could pose safety risks in crash scenarios but said the steel industry has been able to engineer solutions that pass all the existing tests.

This involved inventing mathematical and statistical techniques that can be used to predict how the electronics components will behave in the chip, and evaluating the robustness of existing tests.

Safer Prenatal Tests for Genetic Diseases: A simple maternal blood test can detect Down syndrome five weeks earlier than existing tests, with no risk to the fetus.

Existing tests to determine delirium severity are cumbersome and are seldom administered because they are difficult to use in ICU patients on ventilators and require advanced staff training.

Simple maternal blood tests can detect Down syndrome five weeks earlier than existing tests, with no risk to the fetus.

The editorial authors suggest that while the existing test can likely be improved by emphasizing pre-analytical care of urine specimens, there may be limitations to urine testing of peptide hormones that will be difficult to ever overcome.

The test can also detect specific strains of viruses, making it more attractive than existing tests.

Their new method was found to be a 95 percent match to the results of the existing test.

At least until California announced its plans recently, most of the Smarter Balanced consortium members were planning to do just that: administer the field test to a 10 percent sample of students and keep the existing tests for another year for the vast majority of students.