Sentences with phrase «false negatives as»

There are other blood tests that actually look for the virus itself, but these often give false negatives as the virus «hides» within the cells and does not show up in the blood.

There are other blood tests that actually look for the virus itself, but these often show false negatives as the virus «hides» inside the cells and does not show up in the blood.

Face Unlock in Jelly Bean also lets you capture additional images of your face in different lighting conditions so you don't encounter as many false negatives as ICS.

All types of screening give rise to false positives — and, tragically, false negatives as well.

But there will seldom be false negatives as fetal acidosis takes a while to develop.

Not exact matches

«Being the boss» daughter has both unique challenges and opportunities as well, and I think sometimes you can believe false stories when the wrong people or negative people get in your ear,» McMahon told CNBC.

«I think also being the boss» daughter has both unique challenges and opportunities as well, and I think sometimes you can believe false stories when the wrong people or negative people get in your ear.»

As long as we understand the negatives (a false reward, not to mention a bright light shining up at your face all evening that turns you into an insomniac), it's possible that we're underestimating the benefits in this new form of communicatioAs long as we understand the negatives (a false reward, not to mention a bright light shining up at your face all evening that turns you into an insomniac), it's possible that we're underestimating the benefits in this new form of communicatioas we understand the negatives (a false reward, not to mention a bright light shining up at your face all evening that turns you into an insomniac), it's possible that we're underestimating the benefits in this new form of communication.

As with all technical indicators, an overbought or oversold indicator may be followed by higher highs or lower lows, giving the impression of a false negative or false positive.

These arguments derive from the false belief that a recession is defined as two quarters of negative GDP growth.

Eliminating these false negatives (being careless when others are trying to harm you and ignoring them as random events) is crucial for survival, and hence the instinct.

If the situation is threatening, and you interpret it as non-threatening, that is incorrect, a false negative, you are dead because you were delusional.

When the SCAT2 was issued, superseding the original SCAT published in 2005, the authors recommended continued reliance on the SAC until prospective studies could be conducted to assess the SCAT2's sensitivity (how good the test is in identifying athletes with concussion; for example, a test which is very sensitive will have few false negatives, rarely missing those later found to have concussion) and specificity (a test with high specificity will have few false positives, rarely mis - classifying people without concussion as having concussion).

Baby Milk Action has asked Mapa Spontex to provide further information on where it warns mothers of the possible negative effects on breast feeding of introducing bottle feeding and the difficulty of reversing the decision not to breastfeed as this was not found on its website, advertising or packaging, certainly not in the same location as the false claim that the First Choice teat is «clinically proven» for «optimal combination of breast and bottle feeding» nor alongside advise to introduce feeding bottles by 6 weeks of age at the latest.

As long as it has a low false negative rate it is perfectly reliable screeAs long as it has a low false negative rate it is perfectly reliable screeas it has a low false negative rate it is perfectly reliable screen.

Certain thyroid conditions, such as hypothyroidism, can cause false negatives in pregnancy tests.

This is known as a false negative.

It seems to me that the key distinctions should be (i) owning what you do and not running false flag operations; (ii) scrutiny and negative campaigning being based on evidence, and something you can stand behind as legitimate argument under scrutiny of it.

It said this was as a result of his alleged negative comments about Nigerians and his presentation of false performance indices to his hosts.

«New tests are more exact and are not as susceptible to the same false - positive or false - negative results associated with current tests,» said Schutzer.

The one lesion positive on FMC and negative on PSMA resulted at biopsy as a false positive.

The Big Bang, which released a tremendous amount of energy, may have left behind all manner of exotic entities of physics, such as cosmic strings, false vacuums, or negative matter or energy.

The researchers found that false rumours were far more likely to contain negative terms such as «no» or «not» than positive terms such as «like» or «love».

In theory, FAST has the potential to detect terrorists in the final minutes before they act, but critics warn that the system may have other consequences, such as flagging innocent travelers through false positives while letting some with ill intent sneak by through false negatives.

The disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose, leading to a large proportion of both false positives — where patients undergo surgery they don't need — as well as false negatives — where appendicitis is mistaken for gas or cramps and left untreated.

False - negative results showed insufficient test sensitivity, as they were unable to detect the existing viruses.

«Facets of costs should be incorporated in evaluation, when available, as false negatives might be more costly than false positives, for example.

After adjusting for common factors that influence breast cancer risk, Henderson and colleagues found that women whose mammograms were classified as false - positive who were referred for additional imaging had a 39 percent increased chance of developing subsequent breast cancer during the 10 - year follow - up period, compared with women with a true - negative result.

Women whose mammograms were classified as false - positive but were referred for a breast biopsy had a 76 percent increased chance of developing subsequent breast cancer compared with women with a true - negative result.

In fact, as «The Pregnant Mathematician» points out, when the test is evaluated mathematically, there is both a high rate of false positives and false negatives in women who may actually have GD.

This also is known as a «false negative» test result.

It's important not to eliminate gluten from your diet before being tested as it would cause a false - negative test result.

As a woman ages, her breasts usually become more fatty, and false - negative results become less likely.

A person can be born with an immunodeficiency or acquire it through: infection repeated antibiotic use steroid use (including steroid inhalers) disease malnutrition burns long - term, low - level demands increased immunoglobulin response as a side effect of different pharmaceuticals that can suppress the immune system An immunodeficiency could cause your test results to be inaccurate, giving a false negative.

Could Bay actually be deliberately making a metaphor with the nefarious and false «contamination alerts» — the Orange Alerts of the city — as opposed to his usual accidental stumbling upon some negative and evil cultural signifier, of which is own work is usually the best example?

Setting the effectiveness minimum based on an imperfect measure will result in both false positives and false negatives: some teachers will be falsely classified as ineffective when their true effectiveness is above the cutoff, and others will be falsely classified as effective when their true effectiveness is below the cutoff.

As with any measure, value - added can lead to two kinds of misclassification: putting a teacher in a group to which he does not truly belong — a false positive — or failing to put him in a category in which he does belong — a false negative.

If we shifted it to 15, for example, hardly any teachers with true effectiveness above 20 would be misclassified as ineffective (there are fewer false negatives / blue dots).

If we wanted to reduce false negatives, thus limiting the potential harm to students of having ineffective teachers continue in the classroom, we might choose to set a higher bar, in the sense that we identify more teachers as ineffective initially.

A false positive occurs when a measure classifies teachers as effective when they are not, and a false negative occurs when a measure classifies teachers as effect when they are not.

The error associated with using initial performance to predict future performance appears to be quite high: only 32 percent of teachers classified as low - performing in math are in the lowest performance quintile in future years, meaning that the false negative rate is 68 percent.

Some teachers who are not high - performing will be classified as such (false positives), while some teachers who are high - performing will not be classified as such (false negatives).

Misclassified cases are either false positives (FPs; those students identified as at risk who later perform satisfactorily on reading outcomes) or false negatives (FNs; those students not identified by the screen as at - risk but who later perform poorly on reading outcomes).

In many cases, repairing your business credit can be as simple as identifying negative items on your business credit report which were incorrectly filed, or are altogether false.

For certain situations also explain to them that negative postings online can be viewed as slander and they can be liable for any false or misleading statements.

By eliminating false or unverifiable negative marks on your credit report, you can improve your score dramatically, as well as your chances of obtaining credit and better interest rates.

In the cases announced today, the Commission charged seven operations with violating the FTC Act and the Credit Repair Organizations Act (CROA) by making false and misleading statements, such as claiming they can substantially improve consumers» credit reports by removing accurate, negative information from their credit reports.

Be were told by friends that Gardia is very hard to get rid of and I googled natural cures and found that GSE (grapefruit seed extract) was a great anti parasitic for both dogs and people and not harmful so as a precaution I began giving her drops in the ground beef, just in case the test was a false negative.

«False negative» results are also possible with testing as the virus can be hard to find in some pets.

Both false positive and false negative test results are possible for coccidiomycosis in endemic areas — such as Arizona.