Sentences with phrase «such tests show»

Never mind that such tests show how well an educator is helping his or her students improve.

Not exact matches

Though automakers often complain that U.S. regulations have grown too stringent, history shows that compliance typically comes due to the discovery of defects and problems that are reported by consumer testing and quality organizations such as the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, J.D. Power & Associates and Consumer Reports.

There are numerous services he says Linear could be selling to overseas clients such as lab tests, assays, particular medical compounding or a process that looks for a biomarker, a signal in the blood that shows whether a certain drug being trialled is working or not.

If successful, such a missile test would show North Korea has miniaturized its weapons.

On April 26, 2012, the results of a study which tested their subjects» pro-social sentiments were published in the Social Psychological and Personality Science journal in which non-religious people had higher scores showing that they were more inclined to show generosity in random acts of kindness, such as lending their po.sse.ssions and offering a seat on a crowded bus or train.

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

The process of science is such that if someone shows that new data contradicts our current theories, the data is tested and if upheld the theories are revised to accommodate them.

In case Abraham is not a nullity, a phantom, a show one employs for a pastime, then the fault can never consist in the fact that the sinner wants to do likewise, but the point is to see how great a thing it was that Abraham did, in order that man may judge for himself whether he has the call and the courage to be subjected to such a test.

History shows that «mystic, crystal revelations,» such as are celebrated in the song «Aquarius,» tend to degenerate into absurd orthodoxies, simply because «mystic revelations» allow no reality - testing.

Other tests in Seattle - area condo and apartment buildings and in offices such as at the University of Washington showed that people will dispose properly of approved compostable pods.

Preliminary testing of monolayer films shows that Biomax ® Strong 120 reduces such noise even at just a few percent loading.

While the current test requires proof of an anti-competitive purpose or intent, with the changes, a small business would only have to show that the effect, not the purpose of a decision by a corporation such as a major supermarket, would be to eliminate competition.

Baseline pre-injury and post-injury neuropsychological or neurocognitive testing is now commonplace at the professional and collegiate level, and has become more and more common at the high school level as well, with a recent study showing computerized neuropsychological testing being used to assess fully 41.2 % of concussions at schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff in the 2009 - 2010 year, [2] an increase of 15.5 % from the 25.7 % of concussions in which such testing was used in assessing concussions during the 2008 - 2009 school year.

In such cases, an amniocentesis can be a reliable way to distinguish which chromosome disorder the baby actually has in the event that a screening test or ultrasound shows nonspecific cause for concern over chromosome disorders.

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

Studies have shown a relationship between postconcussion activity level and performance on neurocognitive tests, with athletes engaging in the highest levels of activity performing the worst on such tests.

Another perspective for improving maternal care was offered by the group of Young and colleges who tested the potential contribution of musical training in depressed adults to their ability to interpret infant crying in relation to changes in pitch.51 Using auditory recordings of infants crying manipulated such that the pitch of the crying increased gradually to sound more distressed, it was shown that depressed adults with previous musical training showed higher sensitivity in discriminating distress variations in the infant crying.

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?

If it still shows negative, but you are experiencing pregnancy symptoms such as feeling nauseous, eating non stop then go for a blood test.

Weber himself has ideas he would like to test drive, such as putting «market carts» with grain salads, fruit and vegetables in a few elementary schools to show that kids will eat food that hasn't been nuggetified.

Urine tests, such as home test kits need a bit longer as they are looking for hormones from the pregnancy to show up.

Most evaluations of early education programs show that such programs improve children's school readiness, specifically their pre-academic skills, although the distribution of impact estimates is extremely wide, and gains on achievement tests typically fade over time.

On April 11, New York schools reported some widespread problems with the computerized tests for students in grades 3 - 8, such as students not being able to log in and «system error» showing up as test choices.

While game shows such as Who Wants to be a Millionaire are meant to stimulate and relax viewers by testing their knowledge of trivia, here we are given multiple choice options about the best way to enslave someone.

Studies have shown found traces of drugs, such as antibiotics, hormones, contraceptives and steroids in 80 percent of the rivers and streams tested.

On reanalysing data from the group's past studies, such as on pain sensitivity to hot water, the researchers found that mice tested by men showed lower baseline pain sensitivity than mice tested by women.The work indirectly demonstrates potential effects on nearly any kind of medical research, says Joseph Garner, who studies mouse behavior and well - being at Stanford University in California.

This well - known «color - word matching Stroop test» involved showing the men words meaning color, such as blue, green, red, but asking them to name the color of the letters rather than read the word itself.

Laboratory tests have shown that such contaminants have hazardous effects on for instance fish,» Meland explains.

The fundamental flaw with such tests is that, because children grow at widely different rates, skeletal maturity shown on X-rays — which is used to gauge age — doesn't necessarily match chronological age.

In lab tests, they show that one such particle can be produced in plants and it ferries small molecules to cancer cells.

But test scores and other evidence show that many U.S. middle and high school students struggle to understand even basic chemical reactions such as oxidation or photosynthesis.

To begin to address such questions, Chang showed men pictures of women and tested for statistically significant effects of those pictures on men's attitudes about war and on their cognitive processes related to war.

Todd and Philip Blythe, another member of the Max Planck team, showed people virtual bugs on a computer screen that were programmed to suggest various intentions by exhibiting different cues — such as their speed and whether they moved in a straight line or meandered — to test a heuristic called Categorisation By Elimination.

«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.

It was tested on Reddit comments, but the group hasn't yet shown that it will catch targeted abuse elsewhere, such as on Twitter or Facebook.

New data show that teenagers in Asia, such as these students in Japan, continue to lead the world on a test that asks them to apply reading, mathematics, and science knowledge to practical problems.

If preparations for an avoidance maneuver were called for, spacecraft commands would be written, tested and approved for readiness, but such commands would not be sent to a spacecraft unless projections a day or two ahead showed probability of a hazardous conjunction.

«But, perhaps more importantly, these results support a rarely tested idea that social signaling itself, such as the need to detect blushing and facial color changes, might have had a role in the evolution or maintenance of the unusual type of color vision shown in primates, especially those with conspicuous patches of bare skin, including humans, macaques, and many others,» concludes co-author Amanda Melin of the University of Calgary.

Trapnell and Suzuki were prompted to test the novel macrophage transplantation therapy by studies showing that resident macrophage populations (such as those residing in the lung) can self - maintain without the cells having to regenerate directly from the bone marrow.

«Measuring such large fluctuations surprised us, but we carried out many tests to show the results are reliable,» says Zemcov, who led the study.

Such a test might show how well Prozac or some other psychiatric drug would work on one particular person's depression.

The bad news was older adults did not improve on any of the tasks that should have benefitted from having better recollection, such as a memory test for remembering whether words were shown on a screen or heard through headphones.

One such treatment is already under development for testing in humans after the current study showed it stopped nerve cell damage in mice with ALS.

Later tests showed that Johnson retains other memories — such as the rules for playing in a string quartet or how it feels to fly in a headwind — that appear to be part declarative and part procedural at the same time.

In addition to new diabetics, people who are at risk of developing type - 1 diabetes, such patients» close relatives, also may benefit from the test because it will allow doctors to quickly and cheaply track their auto - antibody levels before they show symptoms.

In a typical priming test, subjects are flashed a positive or negative word, such as beautiful or ugly, before being shown an image that they must judge pleasant or unpleasant.

At the Jackson Laboratory in Maine, gerontologist David Harrison and his team chose to test rapamycin, which is already approved for use in procedures such as kidney transplants, because previous research showed that the drug increases the life span of flies and may reduce cancer in mammals.

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.

According to scientists, the first laboratory test showed that such interaction results in an 80 % drop of virus proteins.

The ambitious goal: to learn to identify early signs of trauma - induced brain damage from subtle changes in blood chemistry, brain imaging, and performance tests — changes that may show up decades before visible symptoms such as cognitive impairment, depression, and impulsive behavior.