Sentences with phrase «recent tests conducted»

The Hoosick Falls parents, children and teachers say they are frightened over the high levels of the toxic chemical PFOA found in their blood in recent tests conducted by the state health department.

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Tensions have escalated since North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on September 3, but the rhetoric has reached a new level in recent days with leaders on both sides exchanging threats and insults.

Russia has so far carried out four tests of the Yu - 71, with the most recent test flight conducted on Feb. 26, Russia's Sputnik News reported, citing a recent report by Jane's Intelligence Review.

In recent weeks, North Korea has launched two missiles over Japan and conducted its sixth nuclear test, as it fast advances toward its goal of developing a nuclear - tipped missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland.

The larger US banks experienced a mini bull rush following the most recent stress tests conducted by the Fed and other prudential regulators.

Three popular brands of baby mattresses that were marketed in recent months to families and day care centers contained toxic flame retardants linked to increased cancer risk, according to laboratory tests conducted for the Chicago Tribune.

The agency failed to conduct required lead - paint testing for four years — and Olatoye lied to the feds about it, a recent report by the city Department of Investigation revealed.

The outfit is conducting preliminary tests using Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting, or DASH, a recent Adirondack Park Agency - approved method for invasives removal.

When North Korea conducted its recent nuclear weapon test, the blast had been detected by a global seismic sensing network operated by the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty Organization (CTBtest, the blast had been detected by a global seismic sensing network operated by the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTest - Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).

The recent birth of two test tube foals in the UK, as part of a collaborative project conducted by leading fertility experts, could help benefit rare breed conservation and horses with fertility problems.

Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave Geron permission to conduct a safety test of embryonic stem cells in a handful of patients with a recent spinal cord injury.

Oxford University psychologist Christopher Fairburn and his colleagues have made impressive strides with their recent treatment research in Europe; they've conducted rigorous clinical trials testing CBT - E for adolescents and adults with anorexia.

We tested a CAD phenotype inclusive of angina (SOFT; ncases = 10,801) as well as a stricter definition without angina (HARD; ncases = 6,482) and selected cases with the former phenotype to conduct a meta - analysis using the two most recent CAD GWAS.

A recent Italian study conducted over a 120 - day test period echoed these results and also showed dramatically improved indicators of liver health and reduced levels of inflammatory markers.

«However, recent trials conducted by my Department and in other states have identified ongoing concerns about the readiness of the online tests.

School - level data on student proficiency were drawn from SchoolDataDirect.org for the 2007 — 08 school year, the most recent year for which test - score data would have been publicly available when the survey was conducted.

Two recent events have made it a perfect time to change the way we conduct our educational testing: growing dissatisfaction with consortia - built tests and a new focus on the proposed use of a test in the revised Standards for Educational and Psychological Ttesting: growing dissatisfaction with consortia - built tests and a new focus on the proposed use of a test in the revised Standards for Educational and Psychological TestingTesting.

Indeed, a recent study conducted by Kaili Rimfeld of King's College London and her colleagues found that grit had only a small effect on how well 16 - year - old twins performed on standardized tests given in England and Wales.

«There is not a single independently conducted study (peer reviewed or not) that shows the effectiveness of Relay graduates even according to the very narrow criterion of raising test scores,» Kenneth Zeichner, a professor of education at the University of Washington, wrote in a recent report.

Although research shows that BTR graduates are initially not more effective at raising student test scores than other new teachers, the effectiveness of BTR graduates improves rapidly over time, and by their fourth and fifth years in the classroom, BTR graduates outperform other veteran teachers.70 Further, principals are very satisfied with the performance of former residents in their building: A recent survey conducted by BTR found that 97 percent of principals who employ teachers who are alumni of BTR «would recommend hiring a BTR graduate to a colleague.»

The IIHS did not conduct its famously stringent small front - overlap test in this most recent round, but we'll be sure to report the results once they are made available.

All four recent crash tests involving Volvos and a BMW were conducted in cooperation with the automakers.

The drama for the dollar afforded by the Calais Quad 442 is evident in a recent «Bang for the Buck» test conducted by Motor Trend.

Its bumpers performed only a little better than those on the old Explorer, and the Jeep Liberty sustained more damage than three other vehicles in a recent series of crash tests at 5 mph conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

In recent crash tests, conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Prius Hybrid and Prius Prime Plug - in hybrid models achieved high marks; ones that are definitely worth considering when shopping for your next new car.

These are the results of recent crash tests conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to assess and compare how well vehicle bumper systems resist damage in the kinds of low - speed collisions that frequently occur in commuter traffic and parking lots.

The institute, the insurance industry's research arm, said in a recent study that it tallied damages as high as $ 4,361 after conducting 5 - mph crash tests on five small pickups.

The most recent Toyota Camry tested aced its crash tests conducted by the Insurance Institute For Highway Safety, and it earned the To Safety Pick + designation.

«When we conducted the recent Colorado study... we found the improvement of test scores runs 18 percent higher in elementary schools with stronger programs and 10 to 15 percent higher in secondary schools,» Lance said.

A few days ago we reported that Lenovo had plans to launch a 10.1» NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad - core tablet (dubbed the Lenovo LePad K2) and its specifications were a bit of a mystery back then, but thanks to a recent benchmark test that Lenovo conducted on GL Benchmarks, more details surrounding the device has surfaced.

According to a recent independent network test conducted by PC World, no one has a more reliable network than Sprint based on a recent 13 city 3G performance test 2.

In the most recent study conducted, nearly 25 % of the raw food samples tested positive for harmful bacteria, including Salmonella ssp.

Everyone who had access to Sea of Thieves» recent closed beta will once again be granted entry (that's 332,000 people) while Rare conducts some behind the scenes testing.

An examination of these connections suggest that recent concerns over the lack of reproducibility of scientific studies can be attributed largely to the conduct of significance tests at unjustifiably high levels of significance.

Curt Devlin — South Coast Today — August 25, 2012 In an article in The Standard - Times dated Aug. 14, Ariel Wittenberg reported on the recent noise compliance testing being conducted by the DEP on the turbines in Fairhaven («State says turbine noise test safeguarded against tampering»).

The chapter, «Privacy in the Workplace: An Employee Perspective,» discusses recent updates in workplace privacy rights, including new limitations on employers» ability to disclose employees» medical information and facts regarding termination, conduct drug testing, maintain personnel files, access employees» criminal records, and intercept employees» mail.

A recent survey conducted by Kaplan Test Prep revealed that, while the number of law school applicants has declined in the past few years, the quality of the applicant pool is increasing, making law school admissions more competitive than ever.

TechBureau CEO Takao Asayama said that the funding follows a successful test conducted with Nomura Research Institute (NRI) and SBI Holdings, a Japanese firm that has made a number of investments in the country's digital currency and blockchain space in recent months.

Conducts pre-visit planning by reviewing and updating the patient's medical record prior to the appointment with recent test results and correspondence and determines needed services per practice protocol.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

However, more recent research conducted by Vartanian and colleagues (2007) with 9,494 participants showed that parental expectations was a significant predictor of college completion for the non-Asians but not for Asian Americans after controlling for 8th grade GPA and standardized test scores.

A recent RE / MAX survey conducted by Leger found more than one in four Canadian homebuyers report feeling pinched by the stress test, which came into effect in January of this year.