Sentences with phrase «studies field test»

Assessment A social studies field test was administered in the 2014 - 15 school year.

A social studies field test was administered in the 2014 - 15 school year.

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«Field studies allow us to test our discoveries and technologies in challenging, real - world conditions and collect the necessary evidence to bring them to a broader scale.»

His worry is actually about human testing in the field, but, he says, he's already talking to WHO about how those studies would be done.

MBA candidates must also test their skills in the real world, either through a paid internship, international - exchange study experience, or a field practicum.

We've partnered with industry leaders and certified instructors to create mobile test prep apps for more than 20 different fields of study, from standardized tests to highly - specialized certifications.»

Our study aimed to test whether the hormonal variations observed in the field could, in turn, affect traders» investment behaviour.

It does this, not by guess work, and certainly not by indulging personal preference or caprice, but by employing scientific methods of observation, analysis, hypothesis and verification, which are well tested in other fields of study.

Perhaps just not the same fields of study» Second — if one can't see these questions as an exercise in thought and rationale then that person has failed the test... placing opinion in the mix as to thwart the morons is just another test to see truly how moronic people can be!

Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the cell membranes that can amplify small changes in the field to produce large changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).

In medicine today, physician - scientists and basic scientists supplement support for their research by applying their expertise part time to develop and test commercial products.1 In my own field, vision science, university - based researchers obtain additional funding through clinical and electrophysiologic studies, pathology, imaging, biochemistry, and animal model development performed for pharmaceutical and instrument companies.

So we went back in the summer of» 73, a year after we did the field studies, and did IQ testing and testing of peripheral nerve function in a group of the kids there.

The study, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and UK lighting manufacturer Integral LED, used customised traps at 18 field test sites across south - west England, illuminated by a series of LED, filament and fluorescent light sources.

Some of the recommendations from the RAND study include waiving civil service rules that impede the hiring of talented cybersecurity professionals, maintaining government hiring of these professionals through sequestrations, funding software licenses and related equipment for educational programs, refining tests to identify candidates likely to succeed in these careers, and developing methods to attract women into the field.

These transgenic plants are a «useful cassava prototype for further studies,» he says, although field tests are required to make sure they'll reliably have less linamarin.

Two of the first field test studies featuring real - world conditions have confirmed that the survival rates and reproduction abilities of bees are negatively affected by prolonged exposure to pesticides known as neonicotinoids.

Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California: Ames conducts wind - tunnel tests and astrobiology research — the study of what life might be like on other worlds.

«This is an important proof - of - principle that the test can really be used in a field setting,» says infectious disease doctor Charles Chiu of the University of California, San Francisco, who was not involved in the study.

Poultry litter is often added to agricultural fields in Maryland, and the study tested decomposition of cover crop mixtures with and without poultry litter.

A study assessing 13 patients using this improved technique for visual field testing has been recently published in the journal Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics.

Both studies back earlier «field tests» of the DSM - 5 criteria, which likewise suggested that the new category of SCD would apply to around 10 percent of children who would have previously received a diagnosis of autism.

To bolster the case that the gold came from soil beneath the trees, researchers conducted a series of field studies and lab tests.

Golden, a professor of mathematics at the University of Utah, studies the dynamics of sea ice, and he regularly goes out into the field to test his hypotheses.

Similarly, a study of «therapeutic touch» published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that practitioners who insisted they could sense a patient's «energy field» proved incapable of even sensing the presence or absence of a test subject's hand.

The researchers acknowledge that the DSI tests are not feasible as a direct sensing method in the field, but the fundamental understanding gained from the study could help enable new SHM techniques.

The scientists hope to gain more insight into this by exploring how past changes in seawater pH have impacted these organisms, but also through further field and laboratory studies testing the effect of ocean acidification on these calcifiers.

Now, in a series of lab tests, Menzel and colleagues have studied how honey bees respond to electrical fields.

With only animal studies to go on, researchers also had to pursue a crash course in vaccine and drug testing to get products into the field

In the study, the researchers systematically tested 30 different wheat crop models against field experiments in which growing season mean temperatures ranged from 15 °C to 26 °C.

Computer models can go some way to filling in these blanks, and Wingenter foresees at least 10 years of computer studies before field tests could kick off.

Douglas Berg, a microbiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, while impressed by the new study, cautions, «Critical tests and rigorous proofs are difficult to obtain in their field of «microbial anthropology,» and some scientists will think that the authors rather overstated their case.»

Self - testing may involve flash cards, it may mean answering questions at the back of a book chapter or it may be fielding questions lobbed by a study buddy.

«Although laboratory tests can predict effects in the field, care should be taken when using the lab data for 303 (d) listing if alternative field data indicate that the organisms of concern are not affected by the constituent of concern, such as pyrethroids,» said Stephen Clark, lead author of the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry study.

The results «essentially confirm» earlier studies — and they should finally put to rest the idea that girls aren't going into technical fields because they can't do the math, says Ann Gallagher, a psychologist who studies testing at the Law School Admission Council in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Two years ago, April Hamblin, an entomology graduate student at NCSU who carried out the field work and co-wrote the study, began looking at how some of North Carolina's common native bee species tolerate increasing heat by placing individual bees in small test tubes.

His current interests are the study of quantum simulators with ultracold atoms and the development of atom interferometers for testing general relativity in space or detecting gravity fields and gravitational waves underground.

This study used tools developed at PNNL in combination with data from the MILAGRO field campaign to test and validate the models.

Compared to vehicle - treated controls, rats treated with aminoguanidine (150 mg / kg; i.p) displayed a significantly faster recovery of function in the open - field test during the first 4 weeks of the 6 - week study.

It is therefore customary in the field to test phenotypic robustness by studying not only the protein encoded by the most probabilistic sequence at a given node, but also the proteins encoded by alternative reconstructions derived from random sampling from the posterior probability distribution at the node.

We've been able to bridge those findings to human studies, developing ways to both look for those neurons in the retina, see whether or not they're sick using imaging techniques that Alf and Vivek have developed, and clinical tests along with Jeff Goldberg in order to detect whether or not patients are losing an excessive amount of those kinds of neurons by virtue of different types of field testing.

Teel said their study and future efforts would focus on the development of clearer comparisons for Rhipicephalus ticks to provide ways to hypothesize specific cause - effect relationships, test tick abundance patterns and pathogen prevalence in the field, and simulate how these patterns might be interrupted to achieve tick suppression or eradication.

These approaches are important complements to empirical studies, generating new predictions that we can test with genomic data or in field or greenhouse experiments.

Other studies included use of rapid tests for HIV, HBV and HCV for emergency field testing of the «Walking Blood Bank» in military operations; use of dried blood spots for collection of specimens in the field for testing of HIV, Dengue, West Nile Virus and Chikungunya Virus; and molecular assays for monitoring Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Ebola virus, and other infectious agents in epidemiology and vaccine research studies.

While more testing is needed to prove the cells could survive for 20 years, or more, in the field (the typical lifetime of solar panels) this study represents an important benchmark for determining that perovskite solar cells are more stable than previously thought.

As you might imagine, high - end brands have run field tests and consumer studies to assess fit and fabric preferences.

Using a design experiment methodology, each project / unit was field tested multiple times in classrooms outside of our study and iteratively revised as warranted by the data.

Consider, for example, the recent skepticism directed toward Tennessee's Project STAR study, a randomized field trial on class size that failed to collect baseline test - score data.

As befitting an article published in the nation's leading statistics journal, it introduces new statistical techniques to deal with problems that often emerge in randomized field trials: 1) missing data (for instance, not all students who initially joined the study participated in the follow - up testing sessions), and 2) noncompliance (some students, for example, refused the vouchers that were offered to them).

Why don't I do what almost everyone else in our field does and just study how various interventions affect math and reading test scores?

Studies show that digital games can improve test scores for students, especially in the field of science, math, engineering and technology.