Sentences with phrase «of tests each year»

Only about 200,000 women, or just 5 percent of all pregnancies, take advantage of these tests each year.

By repeating a series of tests year after year, they hope to pick up on changes that might predict development of CTE.

For example, the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program involves a week of testing every year for third, fifth, and eighth graders.

A group of New School parents announced on Tuesday that 80 percent of students in testing grades were opting out of the tests this year.

Palm Beach County announced recently that it would cut dozens of tests this year.

Julie Craig sits on the Bend - La Pine School Board and opted her son, a fourth - grader at Juniper Elementary School, out of the test this year.

But, hey, that's New York City where the highest opt - out rate has been 2 percent, not Long Island where on the first day of testing this year refusals were in the 30 percent range (a bit lower than in past years).

Under the guidance of Jeanette Deuterman, a mother from Bellmore who spearheaded the Long Island Opt - Out movement, many parents are exercising their rights to opt their children out of the tests this year.

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT) staged the boycott of the tests this year.

ACT ® administers and scores millions of tests each year with the highest levels of integrity and accuracy.

The covered track gives IIHS the ability to run many kinds of tests year - round in any kind of weather.

At the time, Netflix assured The Verge that they «perform hundreds of tests every year to help make the Netflix member experience better,» and the company had made no decision to roll out the feature widely.

Not exact matches

A delay of the CSeries delivery was widely anticipated due to the small number of test flights since Sept. 16, when the CS100 flew for the first time after years of preparatory work.

An important trigger this year will be the outcome of a study where Darzalex is being tested as first - line treatment in combination with Celgene Corp's Revlimid.

The New York Times reported yesterday that, in October of last year, Uber altered its testing program by putting only one safety monitor in each autonomous car rather than two, over the safety concerns of some employees.

Lyft announced a partnership earlier this year with GM to test a fleet of self - driving vehicles on public roads.

Princeton scientists found that height predicted success even among three - year - olds taking tests of cognitive ability.

George Reilly, an advisor and owner at Safe Harbor Financial Advisors based outside of Washington, D.C., developed a series of tests that he runs for his clients a few years prior to their retirement.

When it comes to putting together a good signature skin - care routine, it can take years of trial, error, and drugstore product testing to find the right roster of favorites.

MONTREAL — Bombardier Aerospace has delayed delivery of its first new CSeries commercial aircraft by several months and potentially more than a year, saying it needs more time for testing and preparation.

To become a lawyer, you need to complete a bachelor's degree, take the LSAT (Law School Admission Test), go to law school, and finally, pass your province's Bar exam and spend a year articling (training under the supervision of a lawyer).

In an editorial about Theranos in the journal Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine earlier this year, Eleftherios P. Diamandis, the head of clinical biochemistry at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, argued that fingerprick tests are not necessarily any more painful than needle draws — though there still might be an appeal for someone afraid of needles.

And according to a 2012 survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council, the organization that administers the GMAT admission test for graduate business and management programs, 64 % of business school deans felt MBA programs would specialize further in the next five years.

«Based on the success of last year's test, we built a 3,000 - square - foot building this year, and it was off the charts.»

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.

Plus, there has been significant criticism of the test by psychologists for years, including a significant chance that taking it twice could show different results.

Greek banks could soon bring new problems to Europe, as regulators test how sound they are after eight years of economic turmoil.

Holmes has been stripped of control of the blood - testing company she founded, is returning millions of shares to Theranos, and is barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company for 10 years, the SEC said in a statement Wednesday.

Fresh off the launch of Falcon Heavy — which can lift nearly three times as much as the next largest rockets in operation — Musk is touting BFR as on track to begin testing «short trips» by the «first half of next year.»

Spectrum is currently being tested in Waterloo, Ont., with full rollouts planned by the end of the year.

While it will take months, possibly even years, of tweaking and testing before you have a fully optimized campaign, you'll find the effort worth it.

Back - tested, the LTVC produced a 10 - year annual return of 7.7 %, a healthy premium over the 4.9 % the S&P Global 1200 returned over the same period.

The Federal Trade Commission issued a striking holiday missive last year: If you're thinking of buying an at - home DNA testing kit, make sure to consider the privacy implications: «Although most tests require just a swab of the cheek,» the agency wrote, «that tiny sample can disclose the biological building blocks of what makes you you.»

Holmes and Theranos made waves in Silicon Valley and the diagnostics industry two years ago, when investors lined up to boost the valuation of a company that claimed it would soon offer more than 1,000 varieties of blood diagnostics tests without the need for a syringe.

The Gerber Strongarm is my all - time favorite of mine; I even tested a similar version some 10 - 15 years ago.

It's also over 30 years old, and many haven't weathered the test of time with grace.

Today, even companies like Telebrands test upward of 100 products a year to get maybe five hits.

For years, he'd been administering a test to help board members assess their decision - making skills, as part of a training program he'd developed for corporate directors.

«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the school announced the new test.

Amulet, which has been in testing for four years, released its first product line last year and has seen a surge of interest after every mass shooting in America — particularly over the past week.

Earlier this year, the company suspended a top executive after news broke that the company was involved in tests of the effects of diesel fumes on humans and monkeys.

The Gulf has seen a number of naval incidents between Iran and the US in the past year, including test rocket fire by the Islamic Republic and the brief capture of American sailors who strayed into its territorial waters.

Zipmark closed a total of $ 2 million in funding in late 2011, but it was doled out across two years via three payments after certain milestones were met: establishing a working system, then a beta version and, finally, exiting beta - testing.

The trial was one of three scheduled for the first half of this year over claims that Volkswagen deceived customers with the deliberate rigging of emissions controls to perform differently when being tested than they do on the road.

In essence, rule - based online trading platforms provide tools and tutorials for people to write algorithms on Web browsers and test their models with years of historic data.

«As relevant today as when they first appeared nearly 75 years ago, the teachings of Benjamin Graham, «the father of value investing,» have withstood the test of time across a wide diversity of market conditions, countries, and asset classes.»

Here's a simple test: If someone sat down with you and asked you a series of questions about your company's revenue, expenses, and profits (or losses) for the previous month, quarter, and year, could you answer within a few minutes, using your accounting software?

Its one - year Safe City pilot program is testing out a range of advanced technologies in the hope of improving public safety.

Worse, if your plan fails a discrimination test late in the year, it might have to kick back a portion of participant contributions at year - end.

After five long years of innovation, research, and testing, David Dickinson, CEO of start - up Zeo, based in Newton, Massachusetts, was confident that the product his company introduced last year»» a personal sleep monitor that gathers data from brain waves during sleep»» was unlike anything on the market.