Sentences with phrase «perform a test known»

To diagnose a bladder infection, you need to perform a test known as a urine culture.

Not exact matches

Luckily, phone manufacturers know this, and often perform rigorous drop tests to ensure they aren't shipping a phone that's too brittle, or too bendy.

Because there is no way to truly know what's inside a candidate — and how that candidate will perform once on the job — every interview involves some form of test the candidate passes or fails, even if that test boils down to, «Do I like this person?»

We'll perform the test and let you know which option worked best.

In particular, we must perform system and process evaluation and testing of our internal control over financial reporting to allow management and, to the extent that we are no longer an «emerging growth company» as defined in the JOBS Act, our independent registered public accounting firm to report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act.

We do not know how many have been born, there are no tests that can be performed.

There's countless alternative explanations that have not been ruled out AND we can't perform tests to know if the god hypothesis is correct..

If you want to know how you rate on intelligence go ask your peers, supervisor, and for the kids hanging around here just check how you performed in your last test.

Most hospitals perform a pregnancy tests on all women of childbearing age immediately prior to surgery to prevent the patient who does not know they are pregnant from having surgery.

The fastest way to get pregnant is to perform ovulation testing so that you know exactly when you are most fertile.

And no matter how well a child performs on academic tests, she'll have a hard time in life if she gets so stressed out she can't think straight.

We have several friends who's children suffer from severe food allergies, and our own daughters have environmental allergies, not to mention that we recently had an allergy blood test performed on Lil» C that came back very borderline for peanut / milk allergy (which she has food aversions to anyway) and we know that certain bug bites / stings are severe reactions for Miss A, swelling to the size of baseballs or bigger and have medicine for her reactions.

Bamboo is known to absorb more slowly than microfiber, so of course it seems like it holds less liquid in a test that is performed by dumping a large quantity of liquid quickly over the insert.

Your health care provider can plot your baby's result on a graph if they know exactly how many hours old your baby was when the test was performed.

Know that chromosomal testing can be performed from the placenta and umbilical cord, and may not require the baby itself.

I also know that adolescents who were breastfed perform better in intelligence tests.

The dangers of skipping prenatal testing (or just as bad, having inadequate testing performed by someone who doesn't know how to appropriately administer the test or interpret the results) are serious.

If there's any reason to suspect that your baby might have CF — because of symptoms, a newborn screening test, or because you know it runs in the family — the doctor will perform a sweat test.

Success students, or scholars as they are known in the network's parlance, perform remarkably well on standardized tests, leading to many accolades and repeated questions about Moskowitz's «secret sauce.»

However, Schweitzer and her colleagues conducted a number of different tests on the T. rex sample, including testing for keratan sulfate using monoclonal antibodies, and compared their results to the same tests performed on known medullary tissue from ostrich and chicken bone.

«We have tested the sample head in the lab and know how it performs, and we will hunt for the right sort of environment on Bennu.»

Those with bipolar disorder and a history of trauma performed significantly worse on the «Go / No - Go» test, than those with bipolar alone.

For the guideline, authors compared evidence for fMRI and the more commonly used procedure, intracarotid amobarbital procedure, also known as the Wada test, which is performed during angiography.

The first head - to - head speed test of the D - Wave Two, the commercial quantum computer recently purchased by Google, suggests that the machine performs no better than an ordinary PC.

The tests have been successfully performed for a number of known proteins like fibrinogen, myoglobine and bovine albumin.

In order to validate their results from DIC, the team collaborated with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to perform residual stress tests using a method known as neutron diffraction (ND).

According to tests performed on mice and rabbits, the new vaccine stimulated an immune response to 72 of the more than 90 known strains of S. pneumoniae.

My lab performs genetic testing when a physician needs to know whether a child carries a specific gene mutation (change in DNA) that causes disease.

Just wondering if anyone knew if any testing like that had been performed.

This test can be performed in conjunction with other tests I have recommended for achieving optimal results if you want to know if you have a yeast infection or not.

An allergy test is an exam performed by a trained allergy specialist to determine if your body has an allergic reaction to a known substance.

If you don't know, Digital Foundry does performance tests to see how, exactly, games are performing and which resolutions they're running at.

Bonus features will include a Filmmakers» Audio Commentary (on the extended cut), «The Making of Pocahontas» documentary, an Early Presentation Reel with Introduction and Commentary, Storyboard - to - Film Comparison with Introduction and Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Production and Design Galleries, Abandonded Concepts, «The Making of «If I Never Knew You»» featurette, a featurette on the Central Park premiere, Animation Tests, Character Animation Featurettes, a Production Progression Reel, Music Featurette, a Multi-Language Clip Reel, two theatrical trailers, music videos of «Colors of the Wind» (performed by Vanessa Williams) and «If I Never Knew You» (performed by Jon Secada and Shanice), Sing Alongs of «Just Around the Riverbend» and «Colors of the Wind», the set - top game «Follow Your Heart», and 2 Disney's Art Projects «Build a Drum» and «Create a Dreamcatcher.»

This software or laboratory known as VirtualUnknown Microbiology enables learners to perform biochemical tests while identifying bacteria.

And, while states or localities that perform relatively low on their specific tests know that they could improve, higher performing districts or higher performing states often develop a complacency that has serious side effects.

How do we fairly assess the impact of a teacher during a testing year if we do not know how students performed during the previous school year?

On international tests, as everyone knows, students in the United States perform, on average, well below those of Singapore, Finland, South Korea, and other developed countries.

Labeled as chronically under - performing under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, all electives had been stripped away to make more time for reading and math drills in an effort to boost state test scores.

A lower achieving student knows that, as the test gets harder, eventually he or she is going to hit a wall [where] they can no longer perform on those items.

Schools should no longer play the central role in teaching basic academic skills, he wrote, but rather serve mainly «to coordinate [students»] activities and perform guidance and testing functions.»

In tests taken by 15 - and 16 - year - olds in 2012, before our education reforms had been implemented, England was the only country in the OECD in which the literacy and numeracy skills of young people were no better than those of their grandparents» generation: adults aged 55 - to - 65 performed better in literacy and numeracy than those aged 16 - to - 24.

While NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, scores are the gold standard for measuring student achievement and serve as a yardstick for state comparisons, NAEP results are generally not known by students and their families, who rely on their state test results to know how they are performing.

Research by Will Dobbie and Roland Fryer demonstrates that the impact of attending an HCZ charter middle school on students» test scores is comparable to the impressive effects seen at high - performing charter schools such as the Knowledge Is Power Program (known as KIPP schools).

While no single test can show everything we need to know about how a student is performing in school, test scores along with information about a student's work in the classroom give families the information they need to know about a student's progress.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

As is well known, the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) required states to test students annually in grades 3 - 8 (and once in high school), to report the share of students in each school performing at a proficient level in math and reading, and to intervene in schools not on track to achieve universal student proficiency by 2014.

Yes, achievements tests help us know not only how students are performing against criteria but also how they are performing compared to their peer group.

And here in Connecticut, we know, thanks to Steven Adamowski, Hartford's former superintendent of schools, who presently serves as Malloy's «Special Master» for the Windham and New London schools that when you keep one out of every ten students from taking the Connecticut Mastery Tests, your test scores go up, as long as the 10 percent are the lowest performing students.

Adamowski's dissertation, which exists only in one copy, apparently, is about teacher compensation... you know, those princely salaries teachers get, unlike special masters (150 - 225K + + + plus pensions never earned and platinum health benefits) or superintendent / CEOs of urban districts (with no CT state certification) $ 230K + + plus bonuses for every decimal place attained by test score percentages once the «lowest performing» students are removed from the pool.

«We know that the test is going to be more difficult, so we think it's important for us, and for that matter all states that are in the middle of this transition, to ensure that when scores drop, educators and families know that it's not because students are performing worse but because we're being honest with them,» said Markell.