Sentences with phrase «produces false results»

The «trainer effect,» as it's called, often produces false results — dogs seem to be getting better, but only while the trainer is there.

He noted that the elections board must verify that voting machines operated correctly and did not produce any false results.

This is because having too few test takers can cause the test data to produce false results, labeling a teachers» classes either high - or low - performing incorrectly.

Not exact matches

Romano Guardini commented in this regard on the false certainty of modern exegesis, which he said «has produced very significant individual results, but has lost sight of its own particular object and generally has ceased being theology.»

Because it does not give you false hope and it actually produces results.

Zhong and his team tested the method's accuracy by seeing if it produced false positive results.

The analyzer did not produce any false negative results.

The assay produced no false - positive results.

In addition, the nasal brushings produced no false negative results in 45 disease - free controls, Caughey says.

As a result, blood tests may be detecting the presence of other mycobacterial infections; they may also produce false positives when antibody levels remain elevated after cases of TB have been treated.

A negative result would not have entirely cleared them — tests can produce false negatives — but it may well have calmed public suspicion.

The DoE's first report on the subject, published 15 years ago, concluded that the original cold fusion results, produced by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and unveiled at a press conference in 1989, were impossible to reproduce, and thus probably false.

Results from these tests provide also in many cases insights into the nature of the sources of the false positives, which are generally produced by one of several kinds of configurations involving eclipsing binaries (EB).

It is apparently notorious for producing «false positive» results.

Less than 3 percent of the time did it produce a «false positive» result, which mistakenly indicates the presence of cancer when there is none.

After I wiped tears from my eyes, I realized that I should let her know that if she is going to get tested for celiac disease she should NOT be on a gluten - free diet before getting tested because it can produce a false negative result.

This appears to be false as acid reflux has been found to be the result of not producing enough HCL.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

Cats or kittens that have received cat vaccines for FIV will also produce false - positive results.

Antigen testing is not as effective at detecting infection with adult worms < 5 months old and is unable to detect immature worm infections, male - only infections, and some infections with only one adult female worm.1 If the infection does not produce an adult worm, the worms are immature at the time of testing, or only male adult worms are present, a false - negative result may be obtained.

Cats that are on a macrolide preventative (ie, selamectin, ivermectin, or moxidectin) can have a false - positive ELISA result after being bitten by an infected mosquito, with resultant larvae death and no persistent infection.2 Because antibodies are produced after the initial exposure, a positive result indicates that the cat has been bitten by a D immitis — carrying mosquito 2 to 3 months previously, but not whether it is currently infected.

Geographic distribution of D. immitis and D. repens coincides (Fig. 5) in many areas of South Europe (Genchi et al., 1995; Rossi et al., 1996) and cross reactivity between the two nematodes is regularly shown by different tests, producing false seropositive results (Schrey, 1996).

However, dogs with less than 5 adult worms may not have enough antigen to produce a positive test result, giving a false negative result.

Diagnosis of canine dirofilariosis in animals which originate from a low - endemic region is difficult for 3 main reasons: 1) possible absence of circulating microfilariae (occult disease), 2) high frequency of a low number of adults, which in turn produces false negative results, using either ELISA or latex agglutination test, 3) possible false sero - positive results, due to cross-reaction with adult antigens of Dirofilaria (Nochtiella) repens (Schrey, 1996), the agent of subcutaneous dirofilariasis causing chronic pruritic dermatitis in dogs (Tarello, 1999).

Test results are not a diagnosis and can produce false positives, so we do not recommend euthanizing cats who test positive unless they are ill beyond recovery.

As for a false negative, some food allergies produce a delayed result of a positive allergic reaction and the positive diagnosis is missed.

They created a false imagery, supposedly verified by computer models, orchestrated to produce predetermined results.

Focus on transformational action: «Ensure that renewable and efficient solutions are emphasized rather than false solutions that fail to produce the results and protection we need, such as carbon markets in land and soil, dangerous geoengineering interventions, and more.»

However, persistent cloud cover is a continuous issue in the tropics, and extreme flooding can also produce unreliable remotely sensed data that will result in tree cover loss «false positives» (alerts where no actual tree cover loss has occurred).

If you believe population growth is outside of government control, the statement is false because «the right enabling public policies» alone can not produce the result.

Kumar also disclosed to Thakur that the fabricated test results were not limited to the ARVs Ranbaxy had been producing; rather inventing false data and covering up original test data had been a common practice throughout the company for years.