Sentences with phrase «more conventional tests»

Most notably, they deliver thorough data on the highest - and lowest - achieving students, whose needs and particular challenges don't show up on more conventional tests.

Multiple outlets published stories yesterday reporting that results from finger blood tests by medical startup Theranos showed greater irregularities than more conventional tests (according to the first published independent assessment of the company's tests).

Not exact matches

Earlier this summer, Ford Motor Company showed off how it was testing 3D printing technology to improve its manufacturing and create new prototypes of car parts more quickly than with conventional methods.

The gaming company Zynga split its analytics team into two to become more proactive about analytics; while one team does the conventional reporting, the other «tests hypotheses and creates models using statistical and analytical methods.»

On this particular occasion, the D - Wave Two would have to pass five somewhat more mundane tests, pitting it against a variety of conventional processors.

We can pay our full respect to the tested structures of authority in our common life, but all conventional human authorities easily assume a finality beyond their competence, and this is nowhere more dangerously true than in the high forms of spiritual authority which belong to religion and its institutions.

Project partners will evaluate conventional, widely used products, as well as more innovative «green» products and approaches; original work on green chemistry options will also be tested.

It is still too early to say, however, whether the King - Devick test can replace other, more conventional concussion evaluations for young athletes, including the standardized assessment, despite its shortcomings in this study, Dr. Galetta cautioned.

Still, the city will serve as a test lab for technologies that could be deployed less dramatically, but more meaningfully, in conventional cities.

A new screening tool for prostate cancer, the prostate - specific antigen test, enabled doctors to detect it earlier in more men, and patients were flocking to hospitals for low doses of conventional photon radiation.

In addition to providing insights regarding selection of treatment, this blood test may also prove helpful in assessing the presence of residual disease, recurrence, or relapse and detection of therapy - resistant cancer cells more quickly than conventional tissue - based methods.

«We wouldn't envision using KOD for major trauma, because there are conventional methods like tourniquets or using clay - based materials that are much more effective in that immediate situation,» said Kumar, who often used his own blood to test the hydrogel against commercial hemostats.

«We chose to attack the problem using machine learning implemented on a D - Wave quantum annealer, in order to test our ability to translate complicated real - life biology problems to the setting of quantum machine learning, and to look for any advantages this approach might offer over more conventional, yet state - of - the - art classical machine learning techniques,» Lidar added.

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.

When researchers tested one of the antennas in a specially insulated room, they found that compared to a conventional ring antenna of the same size, it sent and received 2.5 gigahertz signals about 100,000 times more efficiently, they report today in Nature Communications.

When tested in laboratory samples of leukemia cells and in animals with human - like leukemia, the approach caused cancer cells to die much more quickly than with conventional targeted therapies.

«The new maps allow us to analyze the excess and test whether more conventional explanations, such as the presence of undiscovered pulsars or cosmic - ray collisions on gas clouds, can account for it,» said Dan Hooper, an astrophysicist at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., and a lead author of the study.

Still, BioViva has pressed ahead with telomerase gene therapy, and factions within the research community are also aiming for the same outcome of human tests, though through more conventional channels.

This test is more objective and might be more sensitive for glaucoma than a conventional visual field test.

Another team reported that the LINCS approach of measuring a wide range of cells» responses to drugs was more accurate than conventional drug - potency tests.

The tests are based on research conducted by Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) investigators — and could pave the way for a more precise approach to cancer therapy and help find effective drugs when conventional approaches to precision medicine have failed.

In order to figure out what was causing her symptoms, in addition to regular conventional blood testing, we ordered Josie more extensive blood work, salivary hormone testing, digestive testing consisting of a stool and breath tests, and genetic testing.

Most conventional lipid panels never measure Lp (a) levels but more sophisticated tests such as the Vertical AutoProfile (VAP) and the Lipoprotein Particle Profile include Lp (a).

Live blood analysis and a clot retraction test can give you a deeper insight than conventional blood tests with a view to inflammatory conditions, liver function and much more.

There are instances when conventional medicine is like a miracle, but for the one in five people suffering from autoimmune disease such as Hashimoto's hypothyroidism (a disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys tissue in the body or brain), and countless others suffering from undiagnosed autoimmunity, chronic inflammation, severe pain, environmentally induced illnesses, food sensitivities, chronic viral, bacterial, or parasitic infections, brain chemistry imbalances, hormonal imbalances, hair loss, unexplained weight gain, and more — being told your lab tests are fine and you simply need an antidepressant can feel like a kick in the groin.

We also do conventional blood testing, but test for more than a GP generally would — for instance Homo cysteine and Protein A, which are important markers which fall «outside» the scope of general medical practice, but are nevertheless important predictability markers to more fully assess your risk of heart and vascular disease than cholesterol alone.

Because research shows that traditional lipid testing often fails to detect cardiovascular disease in its early stages, True Health offers testing beyond the conventional lipid panel.1 - 4 Our tests include non-traditional lipids, lipoproteins, inflammation, genetic variants, and more.

We did some of our functional, more specialty labs, and this is kinda where it gets hairy because I have a lot of people that come in that have digestive issues and they say, hey I've gotten my conventional blood work done or my conventional stool test at my local hospital done and I did not come back with an infection.

Tests that strictly measure the number of bacteria on a person's hands after use do show that soaps with triclosan kill slightly more bacteria than conventional ones.

And more «authentic» and comprehensive forms of assessment provide not only significant gains on conventional tests but also more useful feedback (because the tasks are more realistic).

We conclude, therefore, [that] assignments calling for more authentic intellectual work actually improve student scores on conventional tests.»

Likewise, many of the ideas we regard today as education reform's conventional wisdom - linked standards and assessments, consequences for poor performance, testing new teachers, paying some teachers more than others, and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers.

Needless to say, they include a vastly more rigorous curriculum, higher expectations for all students, a knowledge - based rather than a methods - based emphasis in teacher education, and a more thoughtful system of assessment rather than the relatively mindless fill - in - the - blank approach of so many conventional standardized tests.

A third worksheet with more conventional area questions, that could be used as a low - stakes test or a homework.

(Va.) Despite recent efforts of the Obama administration to provide states more flexibility in developing new accountability systems, school districts across the nation continue to rely on performance measures tied to conventional testing systems, according to a new report.

But now that the national distribution of test scores is more normal, resembling a conventional bell curve, it is unlikely that we will see the kinds of huge gains we saw in the 1990s and early 2000s again, according to Commissioner Buckley.

Cadillac makes a big promise in touting a more than twofold increase in fuel economy, but right now that's a hazy claim: Fuel economy estimates aren't yet available for the conventional CT6, and the eventual rating for the plug - in variant will be in MPGe, a testing method which takes maximum advantage of electric - only driving range before switching over to petrol power.

Thanks to the direct response of the newly developed steering, the test subjects responded more confidently and competently to sudden evasive action at 60 km / h than with conventional systems.

This collision testing is much more demanding than the conventional tests in which the car is crashed into a fixed barrier.

From the photos showing the front of the Lamborghini Urus test mule, we can also determine those amazing looking seats from the Concept didn't make it into production either, instead a more conventional seat with a separate headrest on two struts is visible now, but some sources did confirm the interior will still be high - tech and the Urus will be off - road capable, with special suspension and transmission settings for ice, snow, rocks and sand...

Test mules have been spotted on the road and reveal that the doors will be more conventional in appearance, with the lower glass replaced with composite panels due to side - impact requirements.

In standard cutting tests, the process of rescuing occupants from a BMW i8 involved in an accident was, in various scenarios, even more straightforward than that for conventional vehicles.

There is a conventional hybrid like our test vehicle, a more extreme hybrid version, an electric - only version, and a plug - in hybrid coming.

Its score of 1,420 points on our PCMark 8 Work Conventional benchmark test was only slightly behind that of the E-Fun 10.1 (1,431) and trailed the more expensive Microsoft Surface 3 (1,610), which uses a more current and more powerful Intel Atom x7 - Z8700 processor.

If your dog does test positive, you'll have many more treatment options and they'll be much safer than the risky conventional treatment vets use when adult heartworms are present.

Although I spent a considerable amount of time going over this dog's medical history, blood tests, X - rays and ultrasound results, his appearance and behavior changes were even more striking and important to me — but the conventional veterinarians hadn't thought to mention these changes in their medical records.

Yeah, they should have included a more conventional sound test like the one in Mario & Luigi Dream Team.

But compared to conventional crystalline, silicon - based photovoltaics, thin film solar has been tested to be more efficient under less - than - ideal conditions (overcast skies, fog, etc) and the possible advantages in having lightweight, cheaper and easy - to - install solar panels made from commonly - found materials more than make up for it.

The company successfully validated multiple AM printed turbine blades with a conventional blade design at full engine conditions — the components were tested at 13,000 revolutions per minute... Read more →

Based on the tests, EWG found that nearly 70 percent of samples of 48 types of conventional produce were contaminated with residues of one or more pesticides.