Sentences with phrase «test against a colleague»

And for the record, I disagree with the article's advice about «When my version wins in an A / B test against a colleague should I rub it in his face?»

Not exact matches

S.P. Choi and colleagues from Ajou University in Suwon, South Korea tested both black rice bran and brown rice bran for their effectiveness in protecting against skim inflammation.

Even if you have supportive colleagues and a happy, healthy workplace, everyone comes up against some kind of test of their commitment in the course of their training.

Smider and colleagues took serum — blood with the cells removed, leaving antibodies behind — from four immunized cows and tested it against different types of HIV virus in a test tube.

Despite having been vaccinated against the disease in 1989, which was 3 years before Sousa and her colleagues examined them, 58 % of the Indians had a weakened or nonexistent immune reaction in skin tests that measure cell response to the tuberculosis bacterium.

Francine Ducharme at the University of Montreal in Canada and her colleagues analysed data from 25 randomised trials that tested inhaled steroids against a placebo (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, doi.org/tr9).

After a series of studies confirmed the activity and lack of toxicity, Lee sent double - blinded samples of the compound and control to a colleague at the BSL - 4 lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston who tested it against Nipah, Ebola and other viruses.

Marshall and her colleagues used visual modelling to test how conspicuous individual lizards would be to a bird's eye against the backgrounds they had chosen to sit on.

Based on the results of that test, Beaty and colleagues developed a predictive model and tested against brain scan data collected for earlier studies on creativity.

Joseph Kable at the University of Pennsylvania and his colleagues have tested the popular Luminosity brain - training program from Lumos Labs in San Francisco, California, against other computer games and found no evidence that it is any better at improving your thinking skills.

Once that is done, Cary and his colleague Alison Murray at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, plan to test samples against microarrays to determine a «core metabolism» shared by all members of the community.

Infection researchers from the German Primate Center (DPZ)-- Leibniz Institute for Primate Research have in cooperation with international colleagues tested a new vaccination strategy against the HIV - related simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in rhesus monkeys.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

The NPR piece drove home the point that standards themselves can only accomplish so much: «Even as Zimba and his colleagues defend the standards against cries of federal overreach,» Garland wrote, «they are helpless when it comes to making sure textbook publishers, test - makers, superintendents, principals and teachers interpret the standards in ways that will actually improve American public education.»

Even as Zimba and his colleagues defend the standards against cries of federal overreach, they are helpless when it comes to making sure textbook publishers, test - makers, superintendents, principals and teachers interpret the standards in ways that will actually improve American public education, not make it worse.

On behalf of Connecticut parents, students and teachers, I'm writing to request that the Working Families Party of Connecticut follow the lead of your colleagues in New York State and join us here as we fight back against the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing program.

Science lives for the «falsifiable hypothesis» — a claim that can be tested against the evidence — and that is what the paper by Hansen and his colleagues offered up.

Waisberg conducted his own admittedly small - scale testing of speed and accuracy by pitting himself against a former colleague with similar M&A experience.