Sentences with phrase «small test sample»

It is introduced as a smoothly rising linear correction based on a small test sample of a few weather stations.

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Just released, Nima is a handheld consumer device that performs a scientific test on a small sample of food to detect gluten.

OK, I just finished making a small test batch of this sauce (quartered the recipe because I've had fails with caramels before), and while I usually wait to review something til after myself and others have tried a few samples... I had to head to the laptop to write a review right away just so I would stop dipping my finger tip in and licking!

This is just a small sample of coconut recipes have been kitchen tested and are proven to work.

Each beverage company may undertake additional activities including: introducing and expanding new lower - calorie products and smaller - portion packages; product placement such as end aisle and checkout displays featuring only reduced - calorie beverages; merchandising efforts such as repositioning reduced - calorie beverages on shelves; providing coupons and other incentives promoting no / lower - calorie options; and taste tests / sampling programs in and out of store.

The sample provided to us was relatively small and, while we do not know explicitly what the Guinness Book of Records testing requirements would be, we would expect that they would require at least one more test with a larger sample and possibly a corroborating test in another lab.

It just means that there is too much randomness in the small sample size and that the system should be tested over more games (a longer time period or larger sample size).

Bigger effects are easier to detect than smaller effects, while large samples offer greater test sensitivity than small samples.

Diagnostic tests such as amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling provide a «yes» or «no» answer but come with a small risk for miscarriage.

Blood tests of liver functions provide important clues that aid in the diagnosis, and a liver biopsy (an analysis of a small sample of liver tissue under a microscope) often provides the definitive answer.

tins that will last a long time - great for the change table Small 1oz mini tins - perfect for trying out a new scent or throwing in your diaper bag Sample size 0.5 oz tins - great for testing out Delish before buying a full size version.

A paired - samples t - test demonstrated significant differences with small to medium effect sizes in the before and after scores for all three subscales.

You might also be offered amniocentesis, which tests a small sample of amniotic fluid withdrawn by an ultrasound - guided needle, between now and 18 weeks.

A small needle is inserted into your amniotic fluid, and a small sample is withdrawn and tested for genetic disorders.

A breast biopsy involves the removal of a small tissue sample from the breast for lab testing to determine if any cancerous cell changes are present.

When you are 38 weeks pregnant, an ultrasound shows that your baby is fully developede In fact if your baby is born any time after this, he / she is considered to be full term and there are no problemsm If everything is fine in your 20 - week ultrasound, you may not need a 38 weeks pregnancy ultrasoundn Your doctor will keep track of the growth of the baby and will also ensure that you are healthy by testing your blood samples and urine and measuring your blood sugara Sometimes when you are 38 weeks pregnant, an ultrasound will be ordered by your doctor if he / she feels that the baby is smaller or bigger than expectede

«The federal program, which is known as the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule, only required systems that served 10,000 users or more to test for certain unregulated contaminants, and then a really small random sample of other systems are tested,» Hutton says.

If you're planning a big buy, you might try getting a smaller sample first and testing to see how well those names work (i.e., sending an alert or two and testing the response rate).

John Belisle, a microbiologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and his colleagues had previously shown that a testing method based on small molecules related to metabolism could distinguish between early Lyme disease and healthy serum samples.

Because they are so small, multiple testing methods are used, including cross-polarized light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and PCR testing of the DNA of larvae in the water sample.

Previously, the most accurate form of testing for thyroid cancer was a fine - needle aspiration biopsy, where a doctor guides a thin needle to the thyroid and removes a small tissue sample for testing.

By methodically sampling the area inside and outside this halo — a laborious task of mapping, examining pottery, and digging small test pits — the researchers concluded that Brak covered 320 acres in the period between 3900 and 3400 B.C..

One is being tested here as the midwife uses a finger stick to collect 300 microliters of blood, just five or six drops, in a small tube, then she treats the samples with a DNA / RNA shield, essentially detergent to prevent degradation.

Researchers in the Czech Republic then tested the UV light - assisted biopsy technique in the field, using it to collect small samples from areas of bat wing that fluoresced under UV light.

But with this technique, we can just take a small sample of non-muscle tissue, like skin or blood, revert the obtained cells to a pluripotent state, and eventually grow an endless amount of functioning muscle fibers to test.»

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

To tease out whether these correlations were due to a small sample size or chance, the researchers used a more sophisticated statistical technique called principal components analysis, testing the actual results against 10,000 randomly generated simulations.

A group of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers and engineers have developed and tested an innovative new system for sampling small planktonic larvae in coastal ocean waters and understanding their distribution.

In Rice's experiments, samples were prepared with a commercial chemical kit that releases all the DNA and RNA in the small amount of stool tested.

Well - known techniques that took place in Flint include preflushing water from taps the night before sampling and using small - mouthed bottles, which artificially lowers lead concentrations in samples, as well as failing to identify and test homes known to have sources of lead in their plumbing from lead services lines or older brass components that contain significant amounts of lead.

Students then got a hands - on opportunity to test their skills by breaking into small groups and planning a sample project.

The immune cell measured is the basophil, and the blood test, the basophil activation test or BAT, requires only a small blood sample and provides quick results.

Scientists at the University of Surrey have developed a more reliable way of detecting prostate and bladder cancers, by testing a small urine sample.

This approach is feasible for combining two small speech models, such as with the test samples of two people using a very limited vocabulary.

These are just a small sample of questions pulled from something called the Remote Associates Test.

He and Ruane found and tested an approach that includes taking a small piece of liver tissue from the snake specimen, heating it up over a longer period of time and applying an enzyme that digests the tissue sample and enables the DNA to be extracted.

In their vodka - tasting study, 50 men and women each sampled multiple, small shots of the state's vodkas — presented in test tubes, of course.

To test the sensor, they injected a small volume of the sample into the reactor where the enzyme converts any glucuronide present into the fluorescent product, and a pump then carries this product downstream to a fluorescence detector for analysis (Analytical Chemistry, vol 65, p 3067).

Using a small saliva, urine, or blood sample, equivalent to the amount required by blood glucose monitors to test blood sugar levels, the sample is applied to the sensors, triggering a response that provides visually evident results in as little as an hour.

The functional brain networks showed a clear small - world organization, expressed by λ ≈ 1 (c) and γ ≫ 1 (d) for T ≥ 0.3 (1 - sample t test, df = 18, all p < α of 0.01, Bonferroni corrected for multiple comparisons of T).

The functional brain networks showed a clear small - world organization for 0.3 ≤ T ≤ 0.5 (Fig. 1a — d), expressed by L ≈ Lrandom and λ ≈ 1 for T ≤ 0.5 and C ≫ Crandom and γ ≫ 1 for T ≥ 0.3 (one - sample t test, all p < α of 0.01, Bonferroni corrected for multiple comparisons of T, df = 18), indicating a small - world organization (Sporns et al., 2004; Stam, 2004; Achard et al., 2006; van den Heuvel et al., 2008b).

The theory will hopefully be put to the test in the not - too - distant future by an ambitious Japanese mission, that will seek to visit both of the small moons with the aim of retrieving a surface sample for return to Earth.

Researchers have devised a new CRISPR - based tool that will detect very small amounts of virus and bacteria in blood and urine samples for diagnostic tests.

This allows pathologists to diagnose the existence of cancer, but the sample tends to be very small, and there's been some debate about how useful that small amount of material can be for molecular testing,» Aisner says.

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.

15:50 - Audience question from statistician raises concerns that statistical methods used to test Nopoulos» data may not be rigorous enough for small sample

The serum from a small set of the samples indeed turned out to block the infectivity, in test cells, of a wide range of HIV isolates, suggesting the presence of broadly neutralizing antibodies.

Currently, Qiao's team has only produced small coin - sized samples of material, but these tests have proven that the material is very strong — stronger than steel - reinforced concrete.

We also tested its robustness with a smaller sample size in only one population (as in the Danish samples studied here), and under admixture (Supplementary Note 5, Supplementary Fig. 7).

Both reviewers consider that since the functional studies were only tested in 2 basal and 2 luminal breast cancer cell lines, the sample set was too small, and testing additional cell lines for their dependency on MELK should further strengthen the authors conclusions.