Sentences with phrase «simple tests such»

Your responsibilities would involve both patient care (rooming patients, drawing blood, running simple tests such as urine dip and rapid flu) and clerical (keeping inventory of vaccines, ordering vaccines, setting up referrals, etc..)

Many people present to their doctors and naturopaths with mineral deficiencies, a simple test such as a hair analysis can help pinpoint the problem.

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The experiment itself was simple: a hundred and forty - five undergraduate students were given a standard test of creativity known as an «unusual use» task, in which they had two minutes to list as many uses as possible for mundane objects such as toothpicks, bricks, and clothes hangers.

Though such controversies ostensibly offer me a simple test for identifying who is for me or against me based on who takes which side, the complexity of lived relationships seems to be frustratingly resistant to such a dichotomy.»

The evil of such a position can be shown by the simple test of applying it to the Nazi Holocaust.

However, the N.Y.U. researchers knew that in recent years, trainers working with athletes in sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts, where concussions are common, had begun supplementing the Standardized Assessment with a simple vision exam, known as the King - Devick test, during which someone reads slightly jumbled lines of numbers printed on three cards as quickly as possible.

I have been working to increase awareness of this condition because of the care I got — every women deserves to have such good care and not have to fight for a simple blood test.

I believe that there should be a simple test in such cases.

Mass producing such a patch would be fairly cheap and simple, the researchers say, as the DNA molecules that detect food pathogens can be printed onto the test material.

Medical devices range from the simple, such as Band - Aids, to the high - tech, such as imaging machines and the BRCA1 and BRCA2 molecular diagnostic tests for breast cancer (see sidebar).

«This study shows that researchers working on problems in rare diseases, such as blood pressure in synucleinopathies, can pool together data and ideas and develop a simple bedside test that can perhaps help spot these problems earlier,» says Dr. Kaufmann, the Felicia B. Axelrod Professor of Dysautonomia Research in the Department of Neurology, and professor of medicine and pediatrics at NYU School of Medicine.

More objective evidence, such as simple breathing tests, is required before a diagnosis is made, they suggest.

On the basis of recent insights into the characteristics of conscious and unconscious thought, we tested the hypothesis that simple choices (such as between different towels or different sets of oven mitts) indeed produce better results after conscious thought, but that choices in complex matters (such as between different houses or different cars) should be left to unconscious thought.

Such an inexpensive and simple test could help transform the landscape of pancreatic cancer and help prevent many of the estimated 330,000 deaths that it causes worldwide each year.

Immediate detection of such infections, which are a major cause of death among young children, is currently impossible as no simple test exists.

Such a device could lead to earlier detection of primary tumors and metastasis, as well as determine the effectiveness of treatment — all through a simple, non-invasive blood test.

The recent study, published in the journal Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, focuses on using a simple test of visual flicker to evaluate an individual's level of executive cognitive abilities, such as shifting attention between different tasks, planning or organizing and problem solving.

After crunching test scores, GPAs, teacher evaluations, and social factors such as immigration status, the team reports a simple explanation online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Asian - American students work harder.

Now, researchers at Google's DeepMind have developed a simple algorithm to handle such reasoning — and it has already beaten humans at a complex image comprehension test.

In making such a simple to use test, the team has created a exciting tool that promises to bring portable, reliable, and inexpensive Zika diagnostics to the field at less than a dollar per test.

That would seem to be a good test of whether the method produces a good estimate of TCR independent of the uncertainty in E. I tried such a thing, and my main objection to the Shindell (2014) paper is that when I test the «simple» Otto method vs. the Shindell method on the same model set in the paper, the Otto et al (2013) method still seems to perform better.

Blood tests are routine and simple ways to diagnose a number of medical conditions, but until recently, such simplicity hasn't applied to a complex disease like cancer.

The levels are simply too variable between individuals, and there's not enough data yet to apply these findings to any routine practice, such as a simple test in a doctor's office.

Most health experts concur that every woman should have her thyroid levels tested every few years (just a simple blood test) to rule out any such conditions (they're common in women).»

This is a simple and relatively inexpensive test that has recently become available from a few labs such as Medlab in New Zealand.

This theory reflects into a simple, yet often underestimated, axiom: testing also must be specific — sport - specific — in such a way that improvements in physical preparedness (strength, speed or endurance) must reflect in proportional improvements in performance in sport.

reflects into a simple, yet often underestimated, axiom: testing also must be specific — sport - specific — in such a way that improvements in physical preparedness (strength, speed or endurance) must reflect in proportional improvements in performance in sport.

Also effective are hormone tests, such as the simple and accurate salivary cortisol, DHEA, and sometimes others as needed, such as testosterone, estrogen and progesterone.

Practitioners, trainers, coaches and others often assess these muscles through observation (watching a person walk or run), an oral history (such as asking, «what movement is most and least painful»), and muscle testing (simple biofeedback).

I would craft recipes from such simple household staples such as almonds, oats, apples, and honey and I would test the final products on my sister and my mother.

His Dr Plankenstein and Hagmella offer equally yucky yet useful resources such as a switch operated talking dice with skeleton head dots and a chance to test simple maths by adding ingredients to make spells of a given strength.

After reading simple biographies, create a portrait of a famous person with props that represent the important accomplishments of that person, such as George Washington Carver with a peanut, Galileo with a telescope, Marie Curie with a test tube, Louis Pasteur with a glass of milk, and Alexander Graham Bell with a telephone.

Simple answers, such as achievement on tests and graduation rates are the common responses, and are not, superficially, controversial.

If we teach children the phonetic pattern — est they now have the ability to decode simple words such as best, crest, guest, jest, nest, pest, rest, test, vest, west and to partially decode more complex words such as siesta, jester, nestle, vestibule, and many more.

Accordingly, here are Linn's two key points of caution: (1) Factors that complicate doing this, and make such simple conversions less reliable and less or invalid include «the content, format, and margins of error of the tests; the intended and actual uses of the tests; and the consequences attached to the results of the tests.»

Such worksheets assignment writing service test simple understanding of tense and words meaning from context.

Simple actions such as swiping between homescreens and opening apps were smooth and quick, more so than on some higher - end tablets we've tested lately.

One also needs a rather extraordinary level of faith that such a simple approach will continue to work, and you'll be sorely tested in downturns.

After examining your dog's ear canal for any abnormalities, including wax or debris, infection, inflammation and injury, your veterinarian may perform a simple hearing test, such as stepping quietly behind him / her and clapping loudly to check his / her response.

During a wellness exam, your veterinarian will perform a number of simple examinations and tests, such as listening to your animal's heartbeat and lungs, check their teeth and oral cavity, evaluate their vision, examine their ears, examine lymph nodes and skin, palpate your pet's joint and muscles, and more.

Such tests are therefore very useful in early disease prevention, as early stages of some diseases can be managed as easily as by simple diet changes.

A simple blood test can detect the presence of Lyme disease and other common tick - borne diseases in your dog, such as ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis.

Whether it's a simple blood test or something more complex and in - depth, such as an x-ray or ultrasound image, we're fully prepared and well equipped to get to the bottom of whatever may be ailing your pet so we can address the problem in a timely manner.

We work with you to return your pet to health using simple means such as changes in routine or diet to more involved procedures using diagnostic tests, X-rays, Ultrasound, medications or surgery.

These tests are simple enough to include in the initial workup of a case, along with the more obvious things you mention, such as ruling out intestinal parasites, a general blood panel to make sure that there is not an obvious organ system problem (liver, kidney) and an attempt to make sure bacterial enteritis is not a problem.

It's such a simple thing, and one that really should have been picked up during play - testing — a quick view of the credits (which manages to play two pieces of musics at the same time!)

I am curious as to whether there are other simple variables that can be looked at unambiguously in terms of their behaviour over coming years that might allow for such explicit quantitative tests of understanding?

Basic statistical knowledge such as hypothesis testing, sampling techniques, simple and multiple regression techniques

I'm sure if you're capable of implying scientific malfeasance then you're certainly capable of running the code and testing simpler interpolation schemes such as nearest neighbor, inverse distance weighting, splines etc... But here's a hint for you to save time — they all give virtually the same result (we tested it).

Fortunately, Motl provides us a simple test (although he does not describe it as such) as to who is correct.