Sentences with phrase «long use of the test»

While studies have not yet been performed using the K - D test in screening athletes at the youth and high school level, the long use of the test in diagnosing reading problems in children «gives me reason to be very optimistic that the test could help parents and coaches to determine whether an athlete who has been hit may have suffered a concussion,» Dr. Balcer told MomsTeam.

Not exact matches

As Americans slept through the first few hours of July 4, Kim Jong Un personally observed the culmination of a years - long goal — the testing of a missile that he can use to nuke the US mainland.

Use the tool below to test how long on average it would take some to crack various passcodes in a world where a crippled version of Apple's software — of the sort that law enforcement desires — hypothetically got out into the wild.

Long used to the inevitability of capital gains, investors and markets have not been tested during a stretch of time when prices go down and policymakers» hands are tied to perform their historical function of buyer of last resort.

AWS, the pioneer which launched in 2006, won the hearts and wallets of developers at startups and small companies long ago, because a single developer could easily set up a test site on AWS using his credit card.

In their March 2018 paper entitled «Pairs Trading, Technical Analysis and Data Snooping: Mean Reversion vs Momentum», Ioannis Psaradellis, Jason Laws, Athanasios Pantelous and Georgios Sermpinis test a variety of technical trading rules for long - short trading of 15 commodity futures, equity indexes and currency pairs (all versus the U.S. dollar) frequently used on trading websites or offered by financial market firms.

Out of a vast body of oral or written material, through long testing, a certain few selections are made, generally not by an official body so much as by the decision of the community itself as evidenced by degree of use or disuse, and these become the sacred canon.

Gay men have vigorously fought off the only public health measures that could significantly contain the spread of AIDS — contact tracing and testing of partners — methods long used for syphilis and other sexually transmitted afflictions.

Of course, there is still a long way to go before this particular method will be tested on humans (it was tested on mice), and an even longer way to go before it'll be used in medical therapies (if it ever will translate into therapies), but one thing is becoming clear: We need not compromise our moral principles and rush into government - funded embryo - destructive research.

I'm very new to gluten / dairy free diet which I'm testing because of bad stomach problems I've had for too long now (and already feeling better after only two weeks:)-RRB- So I've never used buckwheat flour in my life and not sure how it differs from «normal» flour x

Use your chocolate protein powder of choice, as long as you think it tastes good, otherwise the shake will be disappointing; no recipe can save a protein powder that tests your gag reflex.

Maximum load designated by the manufacturer that can be placed anywhere on the platform of a vehicle, axle - load or livestock scale using the prescribed test pattern (an area at least 4 feet long and as wide as the scale platform).

from where i'm sitting, conor's strengths: - long and athletic - great power in his hands and feet - throws with speed & accuracy - uses all 8 points of contact (and uses them all in multiple ways)- uses good footwork to circle away from power shots and to control pace / location of fight - has shown good to great TD defense (until tired)- has good chin (tested several times and the proof appears to be in the pudding, as they say)- displays good head movement which allows him to absorb fewer strikes while within range - excellent counter puncher (able to get in and out fast using his karate style stance)- has shown better conditioning at lw than fw or ww - has incredible fight iq (lone exception in the ufc was against nate in first fight when he was clearly fatigued)

On Long Island, Simon said that the USOC, using powers granted it by Congress under the Sports Act of 1978, would assume full responsibility for the testing of American athletes.

Nevertheless, it appears as though they aren't afraid to throw him into the mix and test him, and it will have certainly been a memorable night for the barely - teenage ace who will hope to use the experience to his advantage and continue to develop his game and become a part of Celtic's long - term future plans.

My experience with the Newcastle football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic trainer and / or team physician), and long as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and athletic trainers in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such as parents, who are not in a position to make intelligent use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.

A test long used to test vision and reading has the potential to provide rapid and accurate sideline screening of concussion on the sports sideline, says a groundbreaking study reported in the journal Neurology.1

Different substances to test (I use bicarbonate of soda and vinegar and water but you could try any other substance in the home as long as supervised and act with caution) Wearing latex gloves and goggles are good safety practices when using chemicals.

Dr Christopher Green, in New Toddler Taming, says the moment to use it is «when the child reaches a pitch of crying, aggravation or limit - testing that can no longer be ignored».

This assignment notebook / folder should include a calendar or planner that can be used to keep track of longer - term projects due dates and test dates.

I have been using it for over 8 weeks now, long enough of a trial run to really put this stuff to the test.

To reduce the workload of the new child support body, estranged couples on means - tested benefits would no longer be obliged to use its services, and they would be offered advice to help them find a voluntary solution.

For far too long these controversial standards have been pushed along without input from parents, and with the governor's proposal to increase use of high - stakes testing in teacher evaluations, now is the time to return control back to them.»

The mayor has long criticized using standardized testing as a metric for school performance, even as he has cited rising results in his appeals to Albany for a continuation of mayoral control of the system.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

The head of the Buffalo Teachers Federation has long complained about constant testing of students and how test results are used in evaluation of teachers.

«We tested a variety of saturated fats and found that long term use of animal fat, butter, and palm oil could weaken the cartilage.

Of course, animal rights advocates have long opposed the Draize Test, which they consider cruel to the lab animals used as subjects.

Rapamycin, an antibiotic and immunosuppressant approved for use about 15 years ago, has drawn extensive interest for its apparent ability — at least in laboratory animal tests — to emulate the ability of dietary restriction in helping animals to live both longer and healthier.

The results of 50 m shuttle run, 15 m sprint run, hand grip strength, standing long jump, sit - up, balance, manual dexterity, and sit - and - reach tests were used as measures of physical fitness.

Because high blood glucose levels can lead to a long list of serious health problems — glaucoma, nerve damage and heart disease, to name a few — diabetics must test their glucose levels several times each day, typically using a lancing device to pierce a fingertip and draw blood.

«This underlines the glaring problem that many of the chemicals that are most widely used today, including pesticides, are simply not adequately tested and may have serious long - term impacts on health and development,» said Barrett, who studies how environmental chemicals affect human reproduction.

Anything that decreases the accuracy of stress testing in the long run could reduce the use of a highly useful and widespread tool for imaging the heart.

Not long after their 2008 finding, Weidhaas and Slack devised a simple diagnostic test that uses blood or saliva samples to detect the presence of the KRAS - variant.

The study makes progress toward using gene editing to prevent genetic diseases, but there's still has a long way to go before clinical testing can begin, says Janet Rossant, a developmental biologist at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto.

Professor Bischofberger and co-investigators Stefanie Heigele, PhD, and Leoni Bolz tested two groups of mice, which were housed either without (sedentary) or with running wheels (voluntarily running) using a novel object recognition (NOR) task to assess learning and long - term memory.

Haldane used to say that the correct test was when an idea or result was so incorporated into theory and accepted by future generations that it became part of the corpus of knowledge long after its original proponent was forgotten.

Because the anti-retroviral drug maraviroc has already been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and has been shown safe for long term, oral use, it could be tested in clinical trials sooner rather than later, says Aleksander Popel, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

They will also use salt - fog testing to investigate the long - term durability of these repairs.

Participants then went through five standard cognitive tests involving immediate recall of a list of presented words, delayed recall of those words later, forward and backward recall of long lists of numbers, and a verbal fluency test in which they listed as many animals as possible without repetition, the use of proper nouns or descriptors.

The U.S. Supreme Court today ended a long patent battle over rights to a widely used HIV test, awarding a victory to Roche Molecular Systems Inc. (which developed and marketed the test) while rejecting the royalty demands of Stanford University (whose faculty conceived and patented the test).

One long - term goal of the Purdue research is to use the technique to test the famous Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, in which a cat may be both dead and alive at the same time.

Using DNA strands just 58 nucleotides long to uniquely identify each particle allows researchers to skip the cell culture screening altogether — and test a hundred or more different types of nanoparticles simultaneously in just a handful of animals.

To test their questions, the team used long - term data from large and severe fires that burned 36 percent of Yellowstone National Park in 1988.

Long has used Tadros to study the evolution of backbones, testing the idea that by making ancient fish stiffer, backbones made them faster and hence better at collecting food or evading predators.

However, although the ultrathin films and rubber sheets used in these devices adhere and conform well to the skin, their lack of breathability is deemed unsafe for long - term use: dermatological tests show the fine, stretchable materials prevent sweating and block airflow around the skin, causing irritation and inflammation, which ultimately could lead to lasting physiological and psychological effects.

They used high - resolution 3 - D images of the brain, questionnaires evaluating temperament and personality traits of individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder and their non-bipolar relatives, and an extensive battery of cognitive tests assessing long - term memory, attention, inhibitory control and other neurocognitive abilities.

The scientists used a unique testing facility, consisting of a trailer with computers set up next to a baboon enclosure, which the animals could enter at will and perform trials on the touch - screen computers for as long as they pleased.

«This study is unique in that we looked at long - term users of these desks whereas previous studies have examined employee's sitting / standing habits immediately after being provided a new sit - stand desk, which is not a true test of whether someone will use the desk over the course of their 20 - to 30 - year career,» Carr says.

Langa and colleagues used data and cognitive test results from ISR's long - term Health and Retirement Study to evaluate trends from 2000 to 2012 among a nationally representative sample of more than 21,000 people age 65 or over.