Sentences with phrase «of days of testing»

We are behaving as though the sorting of students into four proficiency categories based on a couple of days of tests tells us something profound about our schools, our teachers and our children.

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Genetic testing is all the rage in biopharma these days, with players ranging from pharmaceutical giants to dozens of upstarts getting into the genomics game.

For several hours each day, unbeknownst to those employees, the researchers raised and lowered the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, and then tested everyone on nine different kinds of cognitive ability, like responding to a crisis, strategic thinking and applying their knowledge to a practical task.

But on my last day at the post, as I was hanging out with a bunch of artillerymen waiting to see an M109 Paladin test fire, one of the creatures appeared before us.

Graham's statement came just days after North Korea tested another intercontinental ballistic missile which experts believe could have the range to hit most of the United States, with the exception of Florida.

Jake Knapp is design partner at Google Ventures and the co-author of Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days.

Stress tests had machines bending the bands in all sorts of terrible positions for days.

«In order to move autonomous driving toward reality, testing requires more cars, more drivers, and more day - to - day miles traveled than any combination of research facilities could support.»

Nick and Jill moved into a cottage in the redwood forest near Pescadero, where Nick set about working 16 - hour days at the computer and the sewing machine, testing new fabrics for the next - generation product, designing marketing materials, writing patent applications, and starting to build up a network of retailers.

Personality tests are a «convenient way to categorize people, but they're not the absolute truth,» says Natella, who puts test scores into context by comparing them with the average scores of his best reps.. The bigger test comes when he puts potential salespeople on the phones for two half days to call potential clients.

Shenzhen, China, aspires to be the Silicon Valley for hardware makers, a place where accelerators are eager to help you build, test, refine, and make a million of something all in the same day.

A few members of the team took them home, and after a few days of independent testing, our opinion was such:

«These are the early days and there needs to be a lot of testing,» said Pradeep Moudgal, an analyst with the Mercator Advisory Group.

«We look forward to a day in the not too distant future where there would be a simple blood test for every form of cancer,» Dr. Richard Klausner, former director of the National Cancer Institute and a board member of Grail, said on a press call on Sunday.

Turns out, it was the heart - rate data from one of them, not a lab test ordered by a physician, that recently helped Wojcicki, who elliptical - bikes to work most days, figure out she was anemic and not out of shape.

The results of a split test could be seen in days rather than weeks.

In fact, to this day I probably spend 50 percent of my time just learning and testing new ideas, and I get paid for every minute of it.

Southwest late Tuesday said that it would accelerate testing of CFM56 engines «out of an abundance of caution» and that the ultrasonic checks of the engines» fan blades would likely be completed within 30 days.

Using a team of employees who have proved themselves sharp judges of talent, the company puts candidates through a day of interviews and tests.

Fans are paying almost $ 100 for the fight and they don't want any interruptions of their service or any snags in the transaction, so NeuLion has been testing the process in the days leading up to the event to ensure it will run smoothly on fight night.

After testing the Flex out for a few days, I couldn't really see the point of the curve.

Spend time to test various scenarios to determine how much your business would lose with an hour, a day or even a week of downtime.

«Many times [business owners] think they understand who they are, but you need to be willing to interview and test potential customers, particularly in the early days of a company, in order to be able to build those relationships.»

The company currently uses a lab test that takes a minimum of eight hours, and sometimes up to a day or two, to get a readout of what phage or phages will work best against a particular strain of bacteria.

Over 14 days, they tested groups of people who received either four, six or eight hours of sleep on several tasks.

These coming days will test the resolve and decency of the American people.

These socks passed that test with flying colors, and only after a day of wearing them did I think, «Oh, yeah, these actually do feel really nice.»

In recent months, McDonald's has announced tests like the ability for customers to personalize their burgers, all - day breakfast, and a new larger (one - third of a pound) burger.

«It was obvious, from the start, that the DoJ attorneys viewed state officials and the legislative majority and their staffs as a bunch of backwoods hayseed bigots who bemoan the abolition of the poll tax and pine for the days of literacy tests and lynchings,» Smith wrote.

On the other hand, Diversified once hired a man who went against type because he did so well on Natella's phone test, which entails several half days of cold calling potential clients.

Still, from the minute it learned WeatherTech was doing a Super Bowl ad, Americaneagle.com went into research and testing mode, not only estimating just how much extra traffic WeatherTech would get on February 2 and the days afterward but also testing the site to see where bottlenecks existed that might cause problems in the event of a huge traffic spike.

And, given that all our phones serve double duty as point - and - shoot cameras these days, one of the most important tests is camera quality.

I had heard that a slew of restaurants (and a few other retail spots) offer generous gifts on your big day, and so I put this claim to the test a few weeks ago on my 23rd birthday.

Walmart.com will also start testing same - day delivery in the city soon, and both Jet and Walmart will offer both general merchandise as well as fresh and frozen groceries as part of these new express delivery options.

Over the past six months, some of his test units have seen three to four extra delivery sales per day, while others are doing 10.

One study tested 56 backpackers with a variety of creative thinking questions before and after a 4 - day backpacking trip.

The balls made here — not to mention their raw materials — are put through every kind of test, from a machine that looks like an arcade claw game that makes sure each ball conforms to regulation, to a so - called «spinach test» in which balls are dumped in a vat of water and fresh spinach and spun around for up to two days to test grass stain prevention.

During testing, I was able to pull the iPhone 6 through a day of heavy usage with enough juice left over to carry into the early lunch hour on day two.

In an update to the ASX this week, Calima pointed out that testing of Painted Pony's first well in the Beg Block, just 40kms south of Calima's acreage, had averaged more than 2,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

I repeated this test several times, later spacing the links apart by a week instead of just two days, and the results were similar.

EASTWOOD: So I go in and it turns out he's in charge of production there so they cast... The next day after that the very next day I went, I was testing at a studio, standing and they gave me a page of dialogue, an absolute page, no other actor there and I had to run in and start talking to the camera.

The shuttle's O - rings, essential to the proper functioning of the spacecraft, had never been tested in the unusually low temperature predicted for Cape Canaveral on launch day.

The facility and test track should be built by September and it will operate seven days a week at all hours of the day, the Las Vegas Review - Journal said.

An autonomous shuttle bus collided with a semi-truck just a few hours after Las Vegas city officials held a ceremony to celebrate its first day as part of a larger city - wide test.

He also charged that it was «not a coincidence» that the statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day came the same day as Trump's executive order, which he described as a «religious test,» chalking both up to the influence of top White House strategist Steve BannDay came the same day as Trump's executive order, which he described as a «religious test,» chalking both up to the influence of top White House strategist Steve Bannday as Trump's executive order, which he described as a «religious test,» chalking both up to the influence of top White House strategist Steve Bannon.

NASA expects Juno to be in position for its first close - up images of Jupiter on Aug. 27, the same day its science instruments are turned on for a test run.

The accident occurred on the first day of the Arma shuttle's 12 - month long test in downtown Las Vegas over a half - mile route near the city's strip.

In my tests, the Pixel 2 would charge up to almost half in about 15 minutes (about seven hours of battery), extending the battery life for a day of work right before your commute.

If you have customer service teams or a sales force that are in front of computers or mobile phones all day, consider running an instant messaging test.

«Although some people wear glucose monitors with a glucose sensor embedded under their skin, all people with diabetes must still prick their finger and test drops of blood throughout the day,» the project's co-founders, Brian Otis and Babak Parviz, wrote in a Google blog post.