Sentences with phrase «few traditional tests»

Physicians often miss a thyroid problem since they rely on just a few traditional tests, leaving other clues undetected.

Not exact matches

Incredibly, several studies published in the past few years have completely corroborated our original tests with Professor Dia in the Philippines back in 2005, showing that traditional wet - milling processes that employ heat produce the highest levels of antioxidants.

NIPT looks at fetal DNA in the mother's blood and has been shown to be more accurate than traditional predecessors, which means fewer false alarms that trigger avoidable additional testing.

«While sickle cell newborn screening is standard in the U.S., very few infants are screened in Africa because of the high cost and level of skill needed to run traditional tests,» says Dr. Little, Director of the Adult Sickle Cell Anemia Center, UH Seidman Cancer Center and Associate Professor at the School of Medicine.

Her team tested college students on both systems, and found that the point - and - click method resulted in significantly fewer errors, allowing participants to perform tasks more quickly and reliably than using the traditional method.

While traditional stool cultures only look for a few pathogenic gut flora, this test evaluates hundreds of different species of flora to assess the impact on intestinal health.

PBL students had fewer stereotypical images of scientists on a «draw - a-scientist» test and were able to generate more problem - solving strategies than students in the traditional group.

When the 2012 technology scan showed that most districts had the requisite technology platform, few realized that the minimum specs had been dumbed - down or that this meant the new tests would sacrifice most of the hoped - for features — turning them into little more than traditional paper - and - pencil tests taken on a computer.

The study, just completed, compared test scores of 46,000 charter school [fourth - grade] students in 20 states and the District — almost every student attending the special schools with fewer restrictions than traditional public schools.

And considering the low - quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use of objective student test score growth data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.

During his 6 years at Edmentum, he has led multiple initiatives to meet the needs of virtual schools, blended learning environments, and traditional classrooms, including adaptive learning solutions, assessment building tools, test preparation products, and benchmarking solutions to name a few.

Thanks to rampant deals, the Charger's MSRP really is a «suggested» price, which helps soften the relatively steep $ 37,400 sticker on our test car; if you figure a few grand in incentives and / or low - interest financing, the V6 Charger, especially well - optioned like our test model, gives traditional domestic sedan fans a thoroughly up - to - date example of the breed while asking for very few compromises in return.

The Sub has traditionally been less of an all - star performer in traditional brick wall crash tests, where all that mass has to slow from 35 mph to 0 in just a few inches.

Arnott has back - tested his methods on historical data and claims that his fundamental indexing approach would have outperformed traditional indexes by more than two percentage points a year over the past few decades.

In line with our caring science approach and the 3Rs guidelines for animal research (reduction, replacement, refinement), the sensitivity of the QLF technique means that fewer animals are required for testing the efficacy of oral hygiene products compared to traditional plaque measurement techniques.

Ahead of the launch of the Echo Show this Wednesday, June 28, Amazon has given review units to a few sites so that they can test out the new Echo and see how its 7 - inch touch screen adds to the traditional Amazon Echo experience.