Sentences with phrase «larger than the tests»

«We're able to take our research findings and implement them in a park which is significantly larger than test plots or the traditional residential turf areas.

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But his question is whether Theranos could have really developed a way to run as many tests as it offers (more than 240 so far) on the large scale needed at hospitals and in major labs without relying on already existing machines to automate processing.

As of Jan. 1, home buyers with a down payment larger than 20 per cent seeking a mortgage from a federally regulated lender are now subject to a financial stress test.

Given the paucity of flight tests, I suspect if used today, the HS - 12 would have a CEP considerably larger than 5 km, perhaps 10 km, or more.»

In tests the team conducted, the EcoScraps soil grew plants as large as or larger than plants grown in soils using chemical fertilizers.

Apple is said to be testing screens that are larger than the standard 4 inches for iPhones and as large as 13 inches for the iPad, which currently has a 9.7 - inch screen.

Within 20 years, the US and USSR tested nuclear weapons larger than 10 megatons, or 10 million tons of TNT.

Less than a month after Tesla unveiled a new backup power system in South Australia, the world's largest lithium - ion battery is already being put to the test.

I expect the next up - day for the HUI, whether it be today (Wednesday the 17th) or tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, to mark the completion of a successful test of the early - November low and the start of a larger / longer rally than the initial post-crash rebound.

Yes, what we see and call the universe might just be one small part of a much larger structure in more dimensions than we can see and test.

A large Derby field almost automatically ensures a rough - and - tough test of survival in which racing luck often plays a more important role than a contender's ability.

Most outlets agree the price is somewhere between # 30 million and # 35 million, which is certainly a large amount for a player yet to be tested on our shores, add onto that the rumoured 5 - year deal signed at # 120k per week and the ends up much closer to # 65 million than 35.

The service, branching off — if you will — from its famed family tree builder, claims five times more ethnic regions than the next leading test, and also bills itself as the largest DNA network in the world.

The idea is that grasping the hows and whys embedded in human knowledge (in the larger social context) results in a far greater sense of confidence and empowerment than instilling rote responses to likely standardized testing scenarios.

Bigger effects are easier to detect than smaller effects, while large samples offer greater test sensitivity than small samples.

Bamboo is known to absorb more slowly than microfiber, so of course it seems like it holds less liquid in a test that is performed by dumping a large quantity of liquid quickly over the insert.

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.

The test, North Korea's sixth, was substantially larger than previous ones, measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale according to US monitors.

During annual spring testing, more than 200,000 students in grades three to eight opt out in the nation's largest such boycott.

In spring 2015, an estimated 200,000 students statewide — more than 70,000 of them on Long Island — refused to take state tests in English and math, the largest such boycott in the nation.

Other than test borings, it has yet to turn a spoonful of dirt, owing in large part to Heritage Alliance opposition.

It took James O'Neill more than three decades as a cop to ascend to the top of the nation's largest police department, but only a little more than a day to get his first real test.

In spring 2015, the boycott grew so large — with parents pulling more than 200,000 students out of testing in English language arts and mathematics, about 20 percent of those eligible statewide — that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called for a sweeping review of the state's academic standards and exams.

The latest round of state standardized academic test scores showed gains both across New York State and locally.But rather than celebrate the largest bump since New York adopted new tests tied to the Common Core Learning Standards, education officials reported the increases with caution.

In April, parents pulled more than 200,000 students in grades three through eight out of state tests — the largest boycott of its type in the nation.

New York City students did better on the tests than their upstate counterparts in large urban districts.

In addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

Now, first - of - their - kind field tests in the western Sahara reveal that the fields — generated when windblown sand grains rub together — loft desert dust much more effectively than previously recognized, creating larger and longer lasting storms than wind alone.

Costing $ 105 million and enrolling more than 16,000 subjects, the Thai clinical trial was the largest AIDS vaccine test to date.

And in work Cappelluti and his colleagues are now preparing for publication, they show that some of the infrared and x-ray patchiness matches, across a swath of sky about three times larger than previously tested.

«The idea is to harness their combined capabilities to test something larger than could be dealt with in a single lab,» says Martin Williams, professor of engineering at the University of Oxford.

This loophole means that companies ranging from small start - ups offering just one or two tests to much larger diagnostic labs that offer thousands of tests can develop and charge for new LDTs much more easily than they can for most other categories of medical products.

The team employed a technique called Southern blotting to examine fragments of the BRCA1 gene that are much larger than the tiny snippets scanned by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in commercial tests.

Now, one of the first randomized, controlled tests of a large - scale economic aid program has shown small but encouraging effects for people living on less than $ 1.25 per day.

And ScienceInsider can report that politics may have played a larger role than has been previously reported in the unexpected results of the test of the experimental technique.

When tested shortly after eating the soup, subjects who had eaten the larger portion were more sated than those who had eaten the smaller portion, and it mattered comparatively little how much people thought they ate.

Participants who took the largest 10 - mg dose showed less decline on one of two memory tests than those receiving lower doses, or the placebo.

The scientist tested their set - up using frozen human skin cells, segments of pig heart tissue, and sections of pig arteries in volumes almost 20 times larger than previously attempted samples.

Two prototype antennas for the world's largest array of millimetre - wave telescopes have passed a key test, working together to track and image Saturn for more than an hour on 2 March.

When it comes to radiation, the nuclear weapons testing conducted from the 1940s to the 1980s contributed orders of magnitude more radioactivity to the oceans than Fukushima (even when combined with Chernobyl, a much larger nuclear catastrophe).

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.

The test reconfirmed the odd physics of the supersmall, at a larger distance than ever before.

Researchers used data from sensors designed to detect clandestine nuclear tests, among other sources, to identify airbursts with an energy equivalent to or larger than that released by 1 kiloton of exploding TNT.

The impact that produced the crater was two million times more powerful than the largest nuclear device ever tested, a 58 - megaton hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961.

A scaled up version — much larger than what we are testing now — would make also a great one to four person size personal air vehicle.»»

«What better way to test this than to compare fertility in the world during the Cretaceous period — where sauropods, the largest herbivores to exist, roamed freely — to the Carboniferous period — a time in Earth's history before four - legged erbivores evolved.»

To test this idea, de Leon and her colleagues at 12 agricultural universities in the U.S. and Canada devised a large field trial with more than 850 unique corn varieties at 21 locations across North America.

During the Last Glacial Maximum when the Earth was much colder, closed - basin lakes in currently dry parts of western North America, the Middle East and South America were much larger than they are now, as evidenced by radiocarbon dating and other testing of their ancient shorelines.

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.

Besides providing large slews of data, the researchers believed that people are more honest in personal writings than during formal psychological tests.