Sentences with phrase «of women tested»

Especially notable, Laks detected inorganic mercury (the kind that doesn't come from seafood) in the blood of 30 percent of the women tested in 2005 — 2006, up from just 2 percent of women tested six years earlier.

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Overall, HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, with one 2007 JAMA study detecting the virus in 27 % of the nearly 2,000 women tested between the ages of 14 and 59.

Earlier this month, Nike suspended its sponsorship of Sharapova, the highest - paid woman in sports, after she said she had failed a drug test at the Australian Open due to a substance she was taking for health issues.

Thyme Maternity, a 68 - store chain run by struggling Reitmans, tested digital mirrors that offered a 360 - degree view of a shopper's body, but what really attracts pregnant women is merchandise that doesn't fall apart.

Look inside the women's reproductive health care industry: This Startup's First - of - Its - Kind Test Helps Women Understand Why They Can't Get Prewomen's reproductive health care industry: This Startup's First - of - Its - Kind Test Helps Women Understand Why They Can't Get PreWomen Understand Why They Can't Get Pregnant

After testing out a couple of sweaters from this year's collection, which now includes hoodies for guys and sweatpants for women, I'd argue this is the company's best attempt yet.

Myers - Briggs, a test created by a Pennsylvania woman who was fascinated by how her merry personality differed from that of her straightforward husband, has a weak record of predicting job success.

After prototyping a moisture - wicking, formfitting alternative — made of fabric for women's undergarments — and testing it on ex-teammates, Plank set up shop in his grandmother's basement and, just before he went broke, scored his first big sale, to Georgia Tech.

For female professionals, Wonder Woman has become something of a Rorschach test.

Many of the new women's health care startups, such as Modern Fertility and Future Family, let women order hormone - based fertility tests without having to see a doctor first and then deliver the results directly to them.

Consider just a smattering of items we've covered in raceAhead in the past year: Oculus initially caused motion sickness in women because the equipment was developed and tested primarily by men.

The NIH researchers followed 125 women, starting with a sensitive chemical test for ovulation all the way through to the birth of one child.

They suggest most women in their 40s should not have routine mammograms because the tests may cause more harm than good because of false positive results (follow - up testing proves negative for cancer).

She mentioned a pregnant woman who was scared, who might be turned away at the clinic, and the high costs of testing.

To become an FBI Special Agent, candidates must be between the ages of 23 and 37 and successfully complete a battery of physical tests including a timed 300 - meter sprint (women must run it in less than 65 seconds to qualify; men, 55 seconds) and pushups (women must do at least 14; men, 30).

Broadly speaking, it describes the way unconscious generalizations about people («men are better leaders») lead people to ignore objective reality («these women are outscoring most of the men on the leadership test»).

Their first test case is in support of a small business owner named Melanie Kohler, one of the first #MeToo women to post allegations of assault against director Brett Ratner.

After defying a grim outlook for the consumer discretionary sector, the designer and retailer of «yoga - inspired» sportswear is once again back to being a stock - market darling, testing its record highs and all but silencing the skeptics who once dismissed it, with no small whiff of macho market chauvinism, as a fluff stock — a women's fad.

In this crash, there was a test driver behind the wheel, but neither they nor the car reacted in time to avoid a woman who crossed in front of the car.

As Don Braid wrote in the Calgary Herald, «Alberta has become a kind of social laboratory, unique in North America, to test whether a near - majority of women in a government caucus makes a change in style and substance.

A video of a 70 - year - old woman testing out the autopilot system of a Tesla Model S is evidence that the technology is not for everyone just yet.

But it's also an important litmus test concerning the way we view the credibility of women in 2018 — especially those whose stories pose a threat to powerful men.

A new genetic test that analyzes the free DNA floating in a pregnant woman's blood was proven to be more effective at predicting chromosomal disorders compared with standard screening tests, due to its much smaller incidence of false - positive results.

Nvidia (NVDA.O), by contrast, added another day of losses after the chipmaker temporarily suspended self - driving tests across the globe after an Uber UBER.UL autonomous vehicle killed a woman.

This is significant for women who may no longer have to undergo invasive testing just to confirm the positive results of standard tests.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

«We are encouraged by the performance of the pilot programs we tested last year in categories like women's shoes, fine jewelry, and furniture and mattresses,» CEO Jeff Gennette said in a statement.

GFI aims for diversity in their hires primarily through hiring practices that are intended to help them minimize the effects of bias, such as encouraging staff to score applications anonymously, using generalized ability tests, and meeting applicants only late in the process.88 While they've hired many women, including in seven of nine director roles, they find that their team is lacking in diversity in other ways, and they've met with Encompass to discuss further steps they can take to develop their diversity strategy.89 One staff member we spoke to mentioned that they hoped GFI would be able to begin paying interns, which might help diversify their team by broadening the pool of potential interns who could afford to take a position with GFI.90, 91

We're dealing with one candidate who advocates a religious test for welcoming refugees (and potentially citzenship) and who, at the very least, has a history of mysogony and objectifying women.

As of 2011, DNA testing had provided no evidence that Smith had fathered any children by women other than Emma.

Despite the rhetoric of «privacy,» «women in control,» and «demedicalization,» there have been four office / clinic visits (in the ideal uncomplicated case), two ultrasound examinations, multiple blood tests, and strict medical supervision.

She had apparently got to the point where she honestly did not know that a child is the natural fruit of a union between a man and a woman: in her understanding «sex» is something done for pleasure, according to one's desires, whether lesbian or homosexual or whatever, and procreation an entirely different matter connected with options presented at various times, possibly involving in - vitro fertilization and test - tubes.

Women's stories serve not only as the testing ground for new theological proposals, but also as material for building new theological traditions that revitalize the entire community of faith.

To grasp the point, Bailey says, it is helpful to think of it as a kind of test that is being given simultaneously to two sets of people, the woman and the disciples.

Research shows the test could result in a fall in the number of women undergoing invasive testing each year - meaning there could be a reduction in the number of miscarriages related to the invasive diagnostic test.

So if you are somewhere they don't believe in the ordination of women, then you've got to get yourself to another church and have your vocation tested.

Then we have eugenics programs, testing of chemicals and radiation on unsuspecting civilians, slavery, women having no right other than to shut up and stay in the kitchen, children working in factories... I'm not seeing where we were doing all that well when we were supposedly so Godly.

It's hard to understand a culture that encourages violence against women, violence against their neighbours, violence and hatred against other nations, suicide bombings, stoning people to death, so called «honor killings», chemical and biological weapons testing on prisoners, and a long list of other «not so nice» practices.

Some find in Jesus» words merely a half - playful testing of the woman's faith.

I just want to anticipate the result by telling this woman that such a condition — which is anything but pleasant — is always only a state of testing / preparation / changing before God is going to reveal Himself on a higher level than before.

Page 17 has a fun photo of nine girls and women holding up cardboard signs that read, «OMG» «GYT» (get yourself tested) «BE SEXY» «AND HEALTHY» «GET» «YOURSELF» «TESTED» and «GYT.&tested) «BE SEXY» «AND HEALTHY» «GET» «YOURSELF» «TESTED» and «GYT.&TESTED» and «GYT.»

Only in the contemporary period have reflective men and women begun to see through the perverse uses of reason and to test its deliverances in the light of ideology - critique and transformative praxis.

In another way this same test of character illustrated in the expansion of the powers and privileges of modern women.

O Mankind wake up... educate urself to the truth and get out of the darkness... and fear ur Lord who created you from one soul and He created his wife from him and then men and women from them... fear your Lord that you will be meeting Him after this short life... you are here for a test of «Free Will» whether you fear the Lord who created you or fear your delusion / imaginations... and you are heading towards your Creator...

Indeed, he seems to regard my suggestion that a pregnant woman contemplating an abortion be required to examine photographs of the fetus corresponding to the estimated age of her fetus as a practical step forward over his proposal that, first, every woman contemplating an abortion be given a pregnancy test and, second, every fetus aborted alive be sustained in that life.

Africans, Hispanics, Asians, women, homosexuals, homeless, religious minorities, agnostics, doubters, uneducated, intellectuals, poor, and almost any other category of social life can, under certain conditions, be regarded as failing the appropriate tests of true membership in a society.

Some of them have very little scientific evidence to substantiate them, and several of these accepted notions have been statistically tested with startling results in Sexual Preference; Its Development in Men and Women, by Alan P. Bell et al. (Indiana University Press, 1981).

This can be advanced only by men and women who are neither ideological youths nor moralistic old men [or women], but who know that from generation to generation the test of what you produce is the care it inspires.»

The new series will see the women «take part in a series of entertaining tasks and hidden experiments which will test their - and our - assumptions, challenge gender stereotypes and reveal fascinating truths about what it is to be a woman - and man - in the 21st century».

As Pastor Klein rightly points out, Mr. Nuechterlein inexplicably chooses women's ordination and other modern issues as tests of catholicity, despite their negative effects on church unity and their radical departure from historical Christianity.