Sentences with phrase «such test samples»

The algorithms processed a few thousand such test samples, which varied in several ways.

Not exact matches

Ancestry stores your spit sample so it can be used for quality purposes, such as making sure the lab is running as it's supposed to and the testing is accurate.

If you want specific tests, such as water samples, well flow test, dry rot or pest, expect to pay extra per additional test.

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 Organic Valley Good Food Commons features 30 minute micro-workshops organized thematically by resource centers, each focusing on important topics within the Good Food movement such as growing food, raising animals, learning culinary skills, and composting as well as testing your own where attendees are invited to bring in a sample of their backyard soil for testing.

In media releases associated with the announcement, SCIEX states that traditional methods such as ELISA and PCR for allergen analysis come with several challenges, including detection accuracy in processed products and the cost of testing for several allergens in the same sample.

You may also be advised to have a further test carried out, Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) which checks for inherited conditions such as Cystic Fibrosis.

Researchers are actively at work creating less invasive tests to screen for chromosome disorders in developing babies, such as by isolating the baby's genetic material from samples of the mother's blood.

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

As with other neuropsychological testing tools, the value of the SAC in concussion assessment is maximized when individual baseline test data is available because, without such baselines, the athlete's postinjury performance on neuropsychological testing and other concussion assessment measures, such as the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population sample.

So you're saying any studies that show formula yields better results (not that Tanya was making such claims) would be due to the impossibility of developing a fair sampling / testing method, but you have no problem extolling the virtues of breast feeding, not to mention perpetuating this modern day phrenology of head circumference as a determination of future IQ, based on the same flawed science?

Our approach allowed for a larger sample size; the consideration of seasonal changes in menu offerings and available foods; and other factors such as holiday meals, taste tests, and other cafeteria events or promotions that could influence student selection of foods at lunch in the short term.

Since then, safety standards have been tightened considerably and spinach samples are now tested before reaching the consumer in order to prevent such a catastrophe from occurring again.

While tests such as throat swabs or sputum (mucus) samples can help with diagnosis, such investigations take time, so skill needs to be deployed to make these decisions.

A sample of 250 Leandra's Law convictions in Suffolk from January 2010 to May 2015 found that in 12 cases, the county's probation office did not notify Suffolk prosecutors in a «timely fashion» of «negative activity» recorded on the interlock device, such as failed alcohol tests or attempts to tamper with the device.

The voluntary tests reportedly involve pupils providing a sample of saliva which is then tested for traces of drugs such as cannabis, amphetamines and cocaine, with the results available after about 20 minutes.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz stopped short of requiring his health department to mandate tap water sampling in homes where children are already diagnosed with high lead levels, but he did say that «maybe we do need to take additional steps, such as testing the water.»

The focus of those hopes is the liquid biopsy: a test that could detect and analyze a solid tumor from biomarkers in the bloodstream or other easily sampled body fluids, such as saliva.

Larger biomarker signatures can be detected with technology from CDI Laboratories, which offers microarrays of functional human proteins (over 20,000 on a single array) to test the antibodies present in human liquid biopsy samples, such as blood, serum, plasma, CSF, or tissue lysates.

Such viruses have not been identified in any of the more than 100,000 wild birds tested since the flu surveillance sampling began 43 years ago, Webster said.

Students learn their application when analyzing samples for dyes, such as those occurring on textile fibers; when analyzing samples for the presence of materials such as petrol which may have been used to start fires; or when testing for the presence of illicit drugs in a variety of sample types.

For traditional, standard tests, water samples need to be kept below 4 degrees Celsius after collection until they are delivered to a lab where they can be cultured and examined under a microscope for microorganisms, such as Escherichia coli.

Until Mallon's study, neither of these hypotheses had been rigorously tested with such a large sample size.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

Previous work in this realm typically asked black - and - white questions with just two answer options or tested a non-representative sample such as a group of recruited high - school students.

Using statistical tests, Kamangar combined the results from studies in the U.S., Europe, Iran, China and Japan to evaluate if H. pylori helps prevent either form of esophageal cancer in such a large and geographically diverse sample pool.

As such, these banks have limited resources and can't afford to take, test and store every possible sample.

Nearly half of the medicine samples tested for animal DNA contained genetic material from multiple animals, and more than three - quarters included DNA from animals not listed on the packaging, such as water buffalo, domestic cows and goats.

Korber says such requirements should include a thorough investigation of all possible routes of infection, blind testing of samples, and clear records of the chain of custody of samples.

Participants are offered a battery of tests over time, including neuropsychological testing, MRI scans, DNA sequencing, and analysis of blood samples for biomarkers, such as those reflecting stress response.

The material Professor Barber tested was almost 100 times thinner than the diameter of a human hair so the techniques used to break such a sample have only just been developed.

In addition, alternatives to repeated Pap testing, such as cytologic reprocessing of inadequate samples or primary HPV DNA screening should be studied for efficacy and acceptability among FTM patients.

For this project, they and their teams are collaborating with engineers from MBARI to test new ways of adaptively sampling oceanographic features such as open - ocean eddies, swirling masses of water that move slowly across the Pacific Ocean, which can have large effects on ocean microbes.

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

They suggest conducting experiments to test that hypothesis.Meanwhile, John Hall Cushman of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, showed that soil samples taken along hiking trails have much higher rates of P. ramorum spores than those taken away from the trails, and that plants in areas with high visitation rates, such as public parks, had greater infection rates than those on sites where access is restricted.

Samples from 910 humans in Salvador, northeast Brazil, were tested for Zika virus antibodies as well as for other viruses transmitted by mosquitoes — such as Chikungunya and dengue.

When it comes to testing anything solid, such as food or soil, samples need to be processed into a liquid form.

Such testing is challenging technically and requires a high - level biosafety laboratory not available in west Africa, so the samples will need to be sent to a BSL4 - level laboratory, says Daniel Bausch, a physician on WHO's Clinical Care Team for Ebola.

Moreover, he believes that investment in technologies such as chip - based methods to rapidly test blood or tissue samples for the presence of anthrax or smallpox would speed the development of related diagnostic tools for regular diseases.

Ostrer and Behar found no such link, however, and Richards's team, which sampled mtDNAs from Asia and the Caucasus specifically to test this idea, also found no evidence for it.

Soon after birth, a baby's blood is sampled and tested for a number of rare inherited conditions, such as cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia.

The test successfully identified drugs in the samples, including fentanyl and its synthetic analogs, synthetic cannabinoids, and traditional drugs such as methamphetamine and lorazepam.

To prevent waterborne microbes from causing diarrhea and other illnesses, authorities at U.S. beaches periodically test concentrations of bacteria such as enterococci and temporarily close sites where samples exceed regulatory limits.

Their early tests are indicating that some of the samples will be usable, making them regret how much of such painstakingly collected material around the world has already been lost.

Please be aware that these samples have not been tested for dangerous pathogens such as HIV and HBV and it is the sole responsibility of the person making the request that all precautions are taken to ensure safety.

This supports the overall goal of using such diagnostic test in the field to test bodily samples including urine, blood or saliva.

Testing should include all returned samples using methods proven suitable, such as ISO 21149, and following usual procedures applied in the laboratories.

With these technologies, we are creating heart cells from skin samples of patients with many cardiovascular diseases, such as heart failure, to test the safety and efficacy of new or existing drugs that treat or prevent the condition.

Those donations infected with Zika are flagged, and the nationwide testing allowed Busch and his team to pull samples and follow up with donors to try to enroll them in research studies, such as REDS - III Zika, helping to further assure the safety of the nation's blood supply.

Such tests have little diagnostic value unless they follow recent acute exposure because the body keeps the blood clean at all costs.53 Urine samples aren't much better unless potentially dangerous systemic, oral or intravenous chelating agents are given, followed by a 24 - hour collection.