Sentences with phrase «small number of test»

If mistakes are going to be made, isn't it more humane to make them with a small number of test subjects than with the general population?

A delay of the CSeries delivery was widely anticipated due to the small number of test flights since Sept. 16, when the CS100 flew for the first time after years of preparatory work.

Rather than having regular check - ups on student progress, with relatively low stakes on those results, we'd have much higher stakes attached to a smaller number of test scores.

The smaller the number of test scores used to create value - added measures, the more important students» idiosyncratic performance is likely to be.

Not exact matches

«I only have the data at a very high level, but we did detect a small number of people who tested positively in their DNA for being at risk for cancer.

«We're planning to build and test ultra high - speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States,» says Google on its officail blog.

Our testing has shown that doing this in moderation for just a small number of stories can lead to more conversations between people and their friends on all types of content.»

Instead, on Dec. 1, Mettrum issued a vague press release saying that «as a result of further testing and working with the full co-operation of Health Canada,» the company was adding «a small number of additional product lots» to its previous voluntary recall.

Feroz wrote in the company blog that the FPS will start as a test for a small number of clients, and in the coming weeks will be available for all users in the UK.

Amazon fans logged hopefully onto the amazon.com.au site on Thursday afternoon after Amazon told sellers it would start an internal testing phase with a small number of customers at 3 pm AEDT.

The canned wine and single serve market segment has been maturing in recent years, but one reason that it has not seen a huge number of new brands might be the barriers of entry that make it hard for small and mid-sized brands to test the segment without a huge commitment.

1976 The first test concerning the Tetra King packaging system takes place in a small number of shops in the area of Lund, Sweden.

Whether you're a young mom struggling to fit in with your kid - free peers, or you're one of a growing number of stay - at - home dads, or you're a working mom figuring out how to balance work and kids, you know that no matter your circumstances, this business of being responsible for a small (and disastrously naive) human (or humans, bless your heart) is going to test your patience, your limits, and your soul.

Newborn Screen / Metabolic Panel: A blood test done by a small prick to the heel, this test checks baby for a number of potential diseases and disorders that require fast treatment to ensure normal development.

The negative predictive value of skin prick test / specific IgE for immediate reaction is excellent (> 95 %)[15], however a small number of these patients can have clinical reaction.

The numbers were so astonishing that we began small tests of techniques that generally fair poorly in American politics to see how they might play in the United Kingdom.

The State Education Department's grades 3 - 8 assessment vendor, Questar Assessment, Inc., experienced a data breach affecting a small number of students registered for computer - based testing (CBT) in spring 2017, Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced today.

In the first year, 1999, a small number of fields of each crop were sown to test the evaluation protocols.

In 2014, Christiano and other CUMC researchers identified the immune cells responsible for destroying hair follicles in people with alopecia areata and tested an FDA - approved drug that led to complete hair regrowth in a small number of patients.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

That includes 193 confirmed cases and 123 pending cases, of which a small number may be due to something other than an opioid overdose once tests are completed.

By the group's calculation, the mass screenings incurred a high likelihood of invasive follow - up testing and anxiety while finding a relatively small number of cancers that would have been lethal if they were caught later.

With between 80,000 and 150,000 different synthetic chemicals manufactured regularly, it might be too much to expect that a small number of laboratory tests could be used to judge their effect on humans.

Health authorities say the number of false negative results from the tests is probably small but AIDS hotlines were jammed last week with inquiries from people worried by the implications.

«The findings are intriguing,» says Daniel Ansari, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, but he doesn't find the long - term improvements overwhelming, owing to the small number of volunteers who returned for testing.

This is due to the fact, that the number of pathogens in a patients sample is too small to conduct tests.

The ministry maintains that the small number of animals involved in the commercial trade means they can be used to test the reliability of any system introduced later for pets.

To test this, Dr. Alexander Badrutdinov, Dr. Oleksandr Smorodin and OIST PhD student Jui - Yin Lin, built a microscopic channel device that contained an electron trap within to isolate a crystal of a relatively small number of electrons.

«Test» and «musical» were two of the small number of words the engineers knew in English, so they decided to combine them to come up with a catchy title.

In this way, the effect of vaccines or drugs (for example) can be tested: the more effective the active ingredient is, the smaller the number of cells that are destroyed by the viruses and the lower the measured resistance change will be.

Two years ago, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator granted CSIRO permission to test the variety in a short - term trial in a small number of volunteers.

The flu virus, H11N2, was found in a small number of members of a group of Adélie penguins tested at two locations on the Antarctic Peninsula, the continent's northernmost region.

Previously, genetic counselors tested a small number of genes sequentially based on family profile and tumor analysis until the culprit was identified.

While circulating tumor DNA tests targeting a smaller set of cancer genes are already available for use in routine practice to guide care, by covering a much larger number of cancer genes, this high - intensity sequencing approach may enable development of future tests for early detection of cancer.

Although a small number of repurposed and new drugs have recently become available to treat drug - resistant TB (including bedaquiline, delamanid, and linezolid), the authors warn that without accurate diagnostic tests to deliver individually targeted treatments, clear prescription guidelines on appropriate use and improved control efforts to prevent transmission, optimal dosing and administration, and well - functioning health care systems, the effectiveness of the drugs could be rapidly lost.

Now, a study in the journal Brain describes what could be considered a direct «aquarium - to - bedside» approach, taking a drug discovered in a genetic zebrafish model of epilepsy and testing it, with promising results, in a small number of children with the disease.

Attempts to use a small number of biomarkers, whether analytes in blood, cerebrospinal fluid, or a handful of genetic loci, have not yielded diagnostically useful tests for CFS.

«We are presently testing a number of biological and small molecule inhibitors of Notch3,» he said.

Most published studies entailed small number of subjects; well - designed studies with larger sample sizes are needed to ascertain how this test can reduce clinical diagnostic uncertainty or impact treatment planning.

Aldrin et al produce a number of (explicitly Bayesian) estimates, their «main» one with a range of 1.2 ºC to 3.5 ºC (mean 2.0 ºC) which assumes exactly zero indirect aerosol effects, and possibly a more realistic sensitivity test including a small Aerosol Indirect Effect of 1.2 - 4.8 ºC (mean 2.5 ºC).

Diseases of the retina may offer an early test bed for hiPSC - derived cells, in the form of retinal pigmented epithelium, given the relative isolation of the tissue, and the small number of cells required [14].

Pap smears are not 100 percent accurate and a small number of cancers may be overlooked in any one test, but it takes several years for cervical cancer to develop from abnormal cells.

A number of small, controlled trials and case studies have tested the impact of yoga for those with spinal cord disease (myelopathy), traumatic brain injury, Guillain - Barre syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), peripheral and diabetic neuropathies, adrenomyeloneuropathy, neurocardiogenic syncope, and other neurological anomalies.

Bench press strength testing displays nearly perfect (r > 0.9) test - re-test reliability, although there are only a small number of available studies.

As a result, NAEP never collected in its long - term trend assessment a representative sample of students for any specific state, and the median number of tested students in each state was very small.

We should anticipate that most new ideas will fail and develop the infrastructure for testing a large number of them on a small scale first.

(Almost all the African - American students came from schools with average test scores below the district mean; the few that did not had almost identical average impacts, but the number of available observations was too small to recover precise estimates.)

The small number of common items makes the test developers nervous about the resulting student - level scores.

As a result, to test a larger number of items, designers were forced to use a relatively small, 10 - item common block, on the field test.

By requiring testing in the same grades as in public schools, and by enacting significant consequences for results in larger scale participants, it is designed to identify and grow effective schools, with an acknowledgment that, as in public schools, some schools will have difficulty adjusting to new academic expectations and a small number may prove incapable of ever adequately responding to expectations.