Sentences with phrase «from major test»

GRE or SAT study guides from major test preparation providers (Barrons, The College Board, Kaplan, Princeton Review, etc.) can be helpful in preparing for the Test of Academic Proficiency.

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For Theranos to take lab - testing business from the two major lab companies used by doctors, Quest and LabCorp, and to partner to run tests for more hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, it has to show it can get it right at every stage, from the preparation before it pricks someone's finger to the accurate processing of hundreds of thousands of samples.

McDonald's made a major delivery push in 2017, going from a handful of locations testing delivery to roughly 5,000 locations delivering orders via UberEATS.

President Donald Trump visited Texas on Tuesday to survey damage from the first major natural disaster to test his leadership in a crisis, as record rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey lashed Houston and tens of thousands of people fled deluged homes.

Wednesday's long - awaited announcement that they are entering the tablet game with their $ 199 Amazon Kindle Fire was an appropriate follow - up to news from earlier in the month that the world's largest Internet store (with revenue of $ 34 billion in 2010) was testing a major redesign of their website, in short optimizing the shopping experience for tablet devices.

Neometals» plans to go up the lithium value chain have received a major boost in the form of a solid set of numbers from tests to produce battery - grade lithium hydroxide from run - of - mine concentrates at the Mt Marion lithium mine near Coolgardie.

On Watch, which Facebook began testing earlier this month, more than 2 billion users can see hundreds of shows from the likes of Vox, Buzzfeed, Discovery Communications (disca), Walt Disney's (dis) ABC as well as live sports like Major League Baseball.

The company's website fails Google's mobile - friendly test — and apart from branded searches, the site has experienced major losses in their rankings.

25,000 patients will be enrolled in the first study ever to combine data from genetics, cognitive tests and online surveys to explore how genetics is related to Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Depression and certain brain functions.

Ethereum is testing the support zone around the $ 400 level after today's break - down, and the coin remains the weakest major from a short - term perspective.

On Tuesday, CME Group announced that the platform, which includes technology from companies AlphaPoint and BitGo, is being tested by a select few «major financial institutions» and will be available later this year.

From the San Fran Chronicle: Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America Corp. and other major financial companies that came up short in government stress tests took quick steps Thursday to shore up capital and confidence, most notably announcing plans to raise billions of dollars through common stock offerings.

Meanwhile, all 95 samples of potentially flammable cladding from tower blocks in England have failed fire safety tests, cabinet was informed, as the Prime Minister has said a major national investigation must take place into use of the material.

«The major test will be whether the government will extend the court's ruling to the groups that suffer most from Indonesia's religious restrictions,» he wrote.

The news story and independent lab tests of various cheese products took much of the leg work from the plaintiffs in preparing lawsuits against major cheese manufacturers and retailers.

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California winery Bronco Wine, a major supplier of varietal wines, is field testing its leading Green Fin and Hacienda brands in lightweight 70 cl polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles from Amcor Rigid Plastics.

Both of them are missing from this Brazilian squad and tonights game will be a major test of Dunga young side.

From methods taught in the classroom to techniques used by major retailers to bring in the big bucks, I've tested them all to see what works and what doesn't when it comes to selling handmade at craft fairs.

A major independent testing lab for our military and law enforcement can not conduct any further testing because Cuomo's laws prohibit firearms manufacturers from shipping military grade weapons to them for testing.

The Bridge would also accommodate three Toll Plazas which are still being tested from financial point of view and it would serve as a major boost to the actualisation of the Lekki Master Plan.

The lawmakers, concerned with a backlash not just from the teachers but in some cases from vocal parent - constituents, appear to have followed the union's lead: The moratorium, which has been a major legislative priority of New York State United Teachers, would essentially hold harmless teachers, principals and students from low test scores on Common Core - aligned exams for two years.

However, following reports that 13 Member States were unlikely to be compliant with the EU directive by 1 January 2012, meaning an estimated 50 million hens would still be housed in battery cages, Defra announced that many retailers and major food suppliers were putting in place «stringent traceability tests» to guarantee they will not supply eggs produced from illegal conventional cages or use them as ingredients in their own brand products.

The advice represents a major shift from earlier in the year, when Governor Cuomo forcefully pushed new performance reviews for teachers beginning this school year, that would depend more heavily on standardized test results.

«The education policies coming from the leadership of both major parties in the recent state budget — from underfunding public schools and promoting charter schools to modifying but not ending the high - stakes testing regime — are pro-privatization and anti-public schools.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

Over the last several months, discussions of the Common Core State Standards have been eclipsed by the public's reaction to major issues which have arisen in their implementation — issues such as declining student test scores, and the role of such test scores in teacher evaluations, evaluations mandated if a state was to receive its share of federal money from the «Race to the Top» funds.

President Obama on Dec. 10 signed into law major legislation that dials back the federal role in public education and bars the federal government from tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

President Barack Obama on Dec. 10 signed into law major education legislation that dials back the federal role in public education and bars the federal government from tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

Yet a few days before the test, it was delayed amid major backlash from environmental groups.

However, a major bottleneck has prevented peptide drugs from reaching their full potential: Manufacturing the peptides takes several weeks, making it difficult to obtain large quantities, and to rapidly test their effectiveness.

A team of researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and environmental testing firm URS reports that a small subset of natural gas wells are responsible for the majority of methane emissions from two major sources — liquid unloadings and pneumatic controller equipment — at natural gas production sites.

Last fall I took tests from three major DNA ancestry companies to see if they could tell me anything about my identity that I didn't already know.

A major problem is that relatively few laboratories in West Africa have the necessary equipment and personnel to test blood samples from people thought to have Ebola (see «Delayed diagnoses» below).

The major drivers of high healthcare costs in the U.S. appear to be higher prices for nearly everything — from physician and hospital services to diagnostic tests to pharmaceuticals — and administrative complexity.

To test his hypothesis, he and his colleagues carried out experiments on living mammalian cells, into which they injected tiny plastic beads ranging in size from 0.5 to 1.5 microns — a range that covers most major organelles.

The IODP team wants to test a leading model for peak ring formation, in which granite from Earth's depths rebounds after a major impact, like water struck by stone, to form a central tower, taller than the crater rim.

Plait updates his blog daily, often including new images from major observatories or cool gizmos that NASA is testing (methane - fueled rocket engines, anyone?).

This will freeze a patent infringement action which Kodak had filed against Sony as a test case before seeking royalties from the other major manufacturers of VCRs and camcorders.

Last spring, scientists at the Salk Institute in California announced the creation of a technique for transforming simple skin cells scraped from patients with schizophrenia into functional neurons, a major step toward more personalized, noninvasive approaches to drug testing.

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.

With assistance from the Missouri Department of Transportation, Praveen Edara, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering in the MU College of Engineering, tested the use of variable advisory speed limit (VASL) systems and the effect they may have on lessening congestion and reducing rear - end and lane - changing accidents on a fairly dangerous stretch of I - 270, a major four - lane highway in St. Louis.

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, the Center for Neurologic Study and Isis Pharmaceutical Corporation have designed and tested a molecular therapy in animals that they hope will be a major development in the fight to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease.

The test integrates data from discovery and replication studies published in major peer - reviewed journals and involving nearly 100,000 breast cancer patients and healthy volunteers from many populations, principally of European descent.

deCODE has identified key variations in the sequence of the genome conferring increased risk of major public health challenges from cardiovascular disease to cancer, and employs its gene discovery engine to develop DNA - based tests to assess individual risk of common diseases; to license its tests and intellectual property to partners; and to provide comprehensive, leading - edge contract services to companies and research institutions around the globe.

The same staff and facility also process deCODE's DNA - based reference laboratory tests for gauging individual risk of major public health challenges ranging from heart attack to breast cancer, as well as the company's pioneering deCODEme ™ scans, the world's first personal genome analysis and focused disease area scans.

Unlike comparable technologies, our platform provides over 220 biomarkers from a single blood sample, a major advantage when compared to the handful of biomarkers captured by routine blood cholesterol tests.

To build upon the encouraging early discoveries, Helmsley renewed and expanded its Crohn's funding for the Institute in 2013 to begin new work with three major aims: 1) continue studies of individual genes to determine how genetic differences between Crohn's patients and healthy individuals contribute to the disease; 2) evaluate promising small molecules in disease - relevant studies and prioritize insights from genetics to help develop novel therapeutics; and 3) begin basic experimentation in animal models with Crohn's disease to provide the data necessary to begin testing new therapies in humans.

The opportunity to collaborate and bridge across disciplines from neurosciences to engineering to optical imaging technologies, and bring that right into the clinic where we can engage with patients with glaucoma, test new therapeutic compounds, test these new diagnostics — this is a major opportunity to accelerate what we're doing.

Early tests have revealed cells from the pigs are completely resistant to infection by both major sub-types of the disease.