Sentences with phrase «humans as a test case»

After chronicling the different shifts of decomposers on the mice, and seeing the same shifts operating on the humans, the researchers built a computer model using the mouse data to see whether the microbial composition could be used to predict times of death, using the humans as a test case.

Not exact matches

What does trouble me is BPI's use of a raw material which by its very nature is highly pathogenic, such that we all might be endangered in the case of human error (as when BPI's ammonia system stopped working for sixty seconds in 2009, leading to 26,000 + pounds of infected meat)(http://nyti.ms/56MIYK) or a new strain of E coli — not part of BPI's admirably advanced testing protocol — emerges (as one did in Germany last summer, killing 345 and sickening 3,700 +.)

May has proved a highly litigious secretary of state, as she pursues various test cases on human rights law in Europe and at home.

The cluster in Jordan raised the possibility of human - to - human transmission, said the World Health Organization, even though not all the cases were reported as testing positive for the virus.

Puppy mills create a surplus of popular dogs and then either sell them for testing or euthanize them when they are too old to adopt out unless they can serve as a breeding dog in which case they will live in a cage with little human contact and never know the feel of grass under their feet.

Suppose we were to take this as a test case, and to try to explore the arguments related not to any arbitrary null hypothesis, but to a specific question like «to what precision and with what confidence can we estimate the human contribution to atmospheric CO2 accumulation»?

The case was brought by the Public Law Project, a national legal charity that promotes access to justice, on the basis that the residence test would, if implemented, violate fundamental constitutional rights guaranteed by the common law and the European Convention on Human Rights, as incorporated into United Kingdom law by the Human Rights Act 1998.

See also Lord Reed's doubts in Pham, «that the Wednesbury test, even when applied with «heightened» or «anxious» scrutiny, is identical to the principle of proportionality as understood in EU law, or as it has been explained in cases decided under the Human Rights Act 1998».

Moreover, this could also be an appropriate test case for the Supreme Court to clarify that the principles set out in National Bank of Canada v. RCIU (the case cited by the hyperbolic Bruce Pardy) do not apply to lawyers, either in their personal or professional capacities, and that Lavigne and Green together stand for the principle that not only is there no right «not to associate» in Canadian law, there is also no right «not to speak» when it comes to lawyers, contrary to the misapprehension of those who are shocked and amazed that the Law Society can require them to adopt a «Statement of Principles» that will, as the supporting legal opinion points out, make their «generic human rights obligations» more «personal... tangible... and readily accessible.»