Sentences with phrase «tested against standards»

I therefore need to test other examples of the product against the key clauses of the relevant product safety standards, and also establish whether the products were designed and tested against these standards in the first place — and that the appropriate certification and documentation for these tests exists.

That would mean tens of thousands of students will continue to be tested against standards that don't tell them or their families whether they are prepared for college.

Kelli finishes recording and making the solution and then tests it against a standard semen sample to make sure it works properly.

Most patients don't know that in clinical trials new cancer therapies are tested against the standard of care, not a placebo.

Not exact matches

The Standard Edition Manduca has been tested against the rigorous European standards and have been found in compliance with all safety regulations.

By drawing on these two sources of data, the researchers were able to produce an analysis that is better than that of the two other major quantitative researchers in the field, George Barna and George Gallup; it is the standard against which other research on teens should be tested.

Domestically, we continue to act against non-conforming products, conducting tests and spot audits to protect consumers and support clients who comply with the Australian Certified Organic Standard.

It is a club for all standards, whether experienced players who are looking to test themselves against some of the best university sides in the country, or complete beginners, who want to learn the basics.

«We have started a long journey to be at the standard that we want to play at and we must continue to make inroads starting with the second Test against the Black Ferns.»

Membranes and duckbill valves are tested against USA FDA's standards for material as food container and food packaging material (21 CFR 177.2600)

Valves and breastshields (flanges) are tested against USA FDA's standards for material as food container and food packaging material (21 CFR 177.1520) and EU Total migration and BPA migration tests.

Car charger components are tested against USA UL standards and Canadian cUL.

AC adapters are tested against USA UL standards and Canadian cUL for electronics to be used indoors (81GJ E135856)

We test household products against strict standards.

Arguments against standards conflict and teaching to the test...

I also appreciate that Pintoy tests against the European toy safety standard EN71 to ensure physical and mechanical safety, and freedom from hazardous lead and heavy metal migration.

These infant seats are also made for high safety standards, they are rigorously tested for all kinds of impacts and have been made sure to bring your baby the ultimate protection against any uncertain event.

He continued: «We set rigorous standards for physical fitness which every reservist deploying on operations is tested against prior to deployment, and the report acknowledges this.»

Testing of the Paint Preparation Pad has demonstrated high standards of performance and more than comparable surface measurement statistics against other similar products on the market.

This is the latest attack against the new, more rigorous school testing standards and goes further than other reforms offered to date.

The backlash against standardized testing is rippling through some Roman Catholic schools as they balance the college - driven Common Core learning standards with spiritual goals.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg was intrigued enough by the prospect of GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump's becoming the party's standard - bearer that he commissioned a poll last month testing how he would fare against both The Donald and Clinton.

The Green Party candidate is strongly against Common Core standards and high stakes testing, as well as distribution of school aid policies that rank New York among those states with the poorest records.

Until now, however, the researchers have been testing the anodes and cathodes of their test battery separately — against a standard electrode as a partner.

Also known as Tanacetum Annuum Oil, this is a therapeutic grade oil and tested for purity against the highest GCMS standards.

Yet he cautions the accuracy of amyloid PET scanning — the standard against which the blood test is being measured — remains controversial, compared with true gold standard of Alzheimer's, a postmortem inspection of brain tissue.

The team tested the two leading eCAPs against a natural antimicrobial peptide (LL37) and a standard antibiotic (colistin), the latter being used as a last - resort antibiotic against multidrug resistant bacterial infections.

Following standard practice in the field, the researchers divided their training data into three sets, sequentially training the algorithm on two of the sets and testing its performance against the third.

Exploiting the same pre-clinical model used for their studies, the researchers are testing the efficacy of this kind of drug candidates against cancer stem cells, and the possibility of identifying combination regimens with standard chemotherapies with minimized toxic effects, with the perspective of their possible application for the treatment of human breast cancer.

«As soon as somebody said, OK, this drug does better than a placebo, then it would be the standard that you test the next drug against or a combination of drugs against.

«Its existence was predicted by the standard model of particle physics and the fact that there's — we got a glimpse of it, it looks like it may very well be there — is a real victory for that model of science where you test, you put forward conceptual models of the way the world or the universe works and test those models against the observations and see the extent to which they can predict new observations and when they do, it gives you increased confidence in the models.

Davis tests the Irish kilogram in a sealed chamber against three BIPM working standards that are also made of stainless steel.

This is the six - minute, forced swim test, a standard measure of an animal's willingness to struggle against a crummy environment.

The assay — when compared against the performance of the conventional ELISA — has proved to be «up to clinical standards,» according to the researchers, with the added ability of removing the false positives, thereby eliminating the need for repeated testing.

Using standard enzyme - linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) and peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) assays, researchers discovered that unlike previously described human antibodies to lipids, WR321 did not react with any of 17 other lipids it was tested against, including cholesterol, glycolipids, and other phospholipids such as cardiolipin and phosphatidylserine, but it bound specifically only to two phosphoinositides.

The index was developed by testing the glucose response to a standard amount of carbohydrate against a reference food, usually pure glucose, whose GI value is 100.

Two Finnish researchers, Minna Rintala and Pertti Mustajoki, tested standard accepted body fat percentages for women against measurements they made on mannequins (of arm, thigh, waist, and hip circumference are all standard means by which to measure body fat percentage) they found in Finnish museums that were from the 20s, 30s, 50s, 60s, and 90s.

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Test - based accountability is turning teachers against the Common Core (and presumably against other efforts to raise standards) at the same time as politics is turning the broader public against the Common Core in part by associating it with mindless standardized testing.

What students are expected to know in order to reach proficiency levels on exams in some states may be as much as four grade levels below the standards set in other states, according to a study by the American Institutes for Research that uses international testing data to gauge states against a common measuring stick.

Common standards and tests that evaluate performance against those standards are to be found in most of the countries that are performing better than the United States, whether they be in Europe or Asia.

Most often, testing against rigid monolingual standards generates «false positives», diagnosing children who are developing normally as having disorders.

As I have repeatedly said would eventually happen, the teacher unions are turning against Common Core in New York and threatening to do the same in other states if high stakes tests aligned to those standards are put in place.

The decision to move NAPLAN online provides a unique opportunity to shift the focus of assessment from common year - level tests and low national minimum standards to the monitoring of each student's progress against challenging personal targets.

In the future, a students» performance across a variety of programs and platforms will likely give us a much richer picture of how that student is performing against state standards, as compared to a once annual high stakes test.

While Indiana had fine standards on the books, the assessments it has used to track student and school performance against those standards aren't great and the scores needed to pass those tests have been set low.

That undertaking became steadily more controversial, however, as the standards were implemented and tests were devised to measure student performance against them (see «The Politics of the Common Core Assessments,» features, Fall 2016).

1) Uniform national standards and tests of student performance against those standards gather broader public backing than do the specific sets of standards and tests known as the Common Core.

More need to - or the backlash against testing will almost inevitably kill the standards as well.

When the 2013 test results came out last year, NAGB reported the results against these benchmarks for the first time, finding that 39 percent of students in the twelfth - grade assessment sample met the preparedness standard for math and 38 percent did so for reading.