Sentences with phrase «large number of testing»

The large number of test refusals had an impact on teacher evaluations last school year, with student growth on state exams making up 20 percent of a teacher's rating.

«I've run a large number of tests and can't find any reason to reject the idea that clustering is random,» he says.

An advantage of laser heating is that ideas involving lasers can be tested on multiple facilities across the country, allowing a much larger number of tests per year than is possible on the unique Z facility.

Levy believes that the large number of test refusals in New York State is a symptom of legitimate parental concerns resulting from the negative unintended consequences of the roll out of Race to the Top and the Common Core.

Animal Genetics offers customers throughout the world a large number of tests for canine hereditary diseases, traits including color and parentage verification.

There is a project called EdGCM which has a nice interface and works with Windows and lets you try out a large number of tests.

Fourth, some of the disorders that were found to be significant are likely to have been false positives owing to the large number of tests performed.

Although more formal, statistical methods are available to compare ROC curves, we chose not to incorporate statistical inference into this selection process because of the large number of tests we would have to conduct and the inflated type I error rate that would follow.

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As well, the large number of farms also provides ample opportunity for field - testing products designed to serve the dairy industry.

Every minister knows that a large number of his people could not pass any reasonable creedal test if it were put in fresh language and thought forms, even if they would assent to old statements they have interpreted in their own way.

We have the highest percentage of «Christians» in this nation with the largest prison population, the larger number of drug users and that is a nation divided over religion because of god fearing Christians who believe in this wondrous loving god that gives little girls cancer to test the faith of her parents as they watch her dying.

The teacher blows the whistle and everyone jumps in the pool and starts dog paddling during the tread water portion of the test and as you are keeping yourself afloat you look around and see a large number of students wearing inflated water wings and just napping as they float through the exam.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

Concentrations in most products were relatively low, but when taking into account the large serving size suggested, the number of micrograms per day for a few of the products was high compared with most others tested.

You might have heard about this U.S. Air Force scandal — the latest U.S. Air Force scandal, I mean — wherein a large number of missileers were found to have been cheating on their certification tests.

Meanwhile, at the Stadio Olimpico, a suspiciously large number of track and field athletes either were scratched from their events or withdrew with sudden «injuries,» presumably to avoid the risk of being tested.

Also we got a point from this tough test without a large number of first team regulars in key positions, with Ozil, Cazorla, Coquelin and Alexis Sanchez all out of action.

Some couples discover this news fairly early on via genetic testing, but there are still a large number of growing families who find out the (sort of) old fashioned way: during the mid-pregnancy ultrasound at 18 to 20 weeks.

SMMIS contains over 500,000 observations, so even though fewer than 2 % had a planned home birth, the absolute number of planned home births was large enough to give reasonable power to statistical tests.

Our results are consistent with several larger studies3 - 14 in various communities in developed countries, using a number of developmental tests, which have shown a positive association between breast feeding and cognitive development of the child, even after adjustment for confounding factors.

When the test subjects learned that a large number of experts favored a position, opinions shifted by 11.3 %.

Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia's report came on a day when large numbers of students in some parts of the state were expected to once again boycott the required third - through eighth - grade math tests.

A large number of New York's students refused to participate in state tests this year.

It has been tested by a large number of local authorities in the United Kingdom for their elections, and in 2004 it was used for elections to the European Parliament and local authorities in four of the English regions (see below for more details).

And their police reform proposals are providing a test of how far progressive lawmakers can push de Blasio and his police commissioner, Bill Bratton, who promised to change the culture within the nation's largest police department while maintaining New York's historically low crime numbers.

U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr., a former New York education commissioner, is pushing new regulations that would designate public schools in which large numbers of students refuse to take Common Core tests as in need of improvement.

Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's report comes on a day when large numbers of students in some parts of the state are expected to once again boycott the required third through eighth grade math tests.

The Lund researchers have already started new studies in which a larger number of women will be monitored from breast cancer diagnosis and onwards, as well as testing ctDNA methods in other cancer types.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center used two relatively simple tactics to significantly reduce the number of unnecessary blood tests to assess symptoms of heart attack and chest pain and to achieve a large decrease in patient charges.

The researchers then tested one cow's antibodies on an even larger number of virus types.

Researchers also need to test a large number of battery cells over a long enough period of time under various physical conditions and temperatures to ensure that dendrites will never grow.

The result is that a large number of people whose brains appear normal on standard tests (X-ray, computed tomography, or magnetic resonance imaging) could actually have some form of injury whose course is not well understood.

However, in many countries, including Ukraine, considerable resources are spent on HIV testing and a large number of HIV - negatives are found for each person who tests positive.

Tissue engineers have been unable to grow epidermis with the functional barrier needed for drug testing, and have been further limited in producing an in vitro (lab) model for large - scale drug screening by the number of cells that can be grown from a single skin biopsy sample.

«Lowering the cost will open the way for new applications, especially ones that require testing a large number of samples.»

If animal tests go well, the next trials will be with humans, a process that involves three stages — one for safety, the next to see if the protein kills cancer in a limited number of people, and the last to turn it loose in a large group.

Young also hopes the results, which should be compiled by the end of the year, will provide enough preliminary evidence to help raise funds for a larger trial testing the use of social media to combat abuse of a broader number of substances.

Although there is no direct test yet, women in some families with large numbers of cases can be tested for known genetic markers that are inherited alongside the gene.

Being able to study quantum systems with a large number of components — or «qubits,» as they are often called — also has important implications for future quantum technologies, as Carleo points out: «If we want to test quantum computers with more than a handful of qubits, that won't be possible with conventional means because of the exponential scaling.

«Lots of blood tests said to be the next big thing haven't come to anything — we have to replicate these results with larger numbers,» says team member Simon Lovestone now at the University of Oxford.

The assay was implemented in five countries and tested using a large number of clinical samples from travelers and patients living in areas with a high level of exposure to Zika virus and other flaviviruses.

Researchers tested a number of hypotheses, among them whether more unexpected births and larger families might be associated with parents being less happy than child - free people.

In a large test field, getting exact numbers means hours or even days of labor for a plant breeder.

The test called SkimuneTM, which is trademarked and has a patent pending, has been successfully tested by a number of large pharmaceutical companies on drugs in development and provides a reliable result within two weeks.

While circulating tumor DNA tests targeting a smaller set of cancer genes are already available for use in routine practice to guide care, by covering a much larger number of cancer genes, this high - intensity sequencing approach may enable development of future tests for early detection of cancer.

When tested against a large number of CRE strains, the three compounds were broadly active against the strains.

Robert Beall becomes CEO of the CFF and, grasping the limitations of gene therapy, invests $ 3.2 million in Aurora Biosciences Corp., where cell physiologist Paul Negulescu begins to look for a chemical cure using high - throughput methods to test large numbers of potential drugs.

That translates into a large number of positive tests — but contrast that figure with the 29 percent of athletes at a major international meet who, when promised anonymity by researchers, admitted to using PEDs.

A large number of experimental vaccines have been tested in laboratories or in animals.

As for beta2 agonists, an analysis of 26 studies found no significant benefits to athletes but competitors still use them extensively (hence the large number of positive tests).