Sentences with phrase «tested against the results»

Should the church's Christological teaching be tested against the results of contemporary New Testament scholarship?

Not exact matches

It is essential to your success that you implement the previous four tips and then test them against your previous results to determine what's working and what's not.

Instead, Coke went with the results of taste tests alone and had to reverse their entire marketing and distribution plan just three months later, when consumers basically revolted against the company.

Here's some of what's going on in the health care world as we head into Easter weekend: payers are pushing back against PTC Therapeutcics» controversial Duchenne muscular dystropy drug; insurers are cautiously lauding new rules for Obamacare's marketplaces; a fascinating lawsuit in Arkansas explores the ethics of drug making; and a new test for Zika virus can produce results within an hour.

Rather, the challenge was the inadvertent result of my 2009 insistence on stress testing our methods of classifying return / risk profiles against Depression - era data.

This unfortunately dismisses the central lesson to be drawn from the awkward transition that resulted from my 2009 decision to stress - test our methods against Depression - era data, not to mention the fact that concerns similar to my present ones were rather stunningly vindicated over the completion of prior market cycles.

Our difficult experience in the recent half - cycle resulted from my insistence in 2009 on stress - testing our methods against Depression - era data, because the resulting methods of classifying market return / risk profiles picked up that historical regularity.

The results of statistical tests that use the Sound Money and Monetary Freedom indicators as independent variables should be checked against results that use raw inflation data, instead, or using tests that strip out price stability data altogether.

Officials say panelist testing results showed a significant improvement in taste experience with different fruit drinks prepared with SAV - R - SWEET against the stevia only control drink.

As the Gunners face a do or die Champions League clash against Dinamo Zagreb tonight, Wenger feels hard done by that, even though Zagreb player Arijan Adem was banned for four years after failing a drugs test after September's shock 2 - 1 win, the result is still allowed to stand.

Xhaka and his team mates can almost certainly expect a tougher test against the Romanians, especially after they need some sort of result against the Swiss in order to stay in the competition.

In a bizarre irony, the players» union — Don Fehr and Gene Orza and the lot — which had fought ferociously against drug testing, failed to ensure that the results from a 2003 survey test remained anonymous.

You'll see more interviews from kids there, but you'll also get testing results and see them run drills against air.

Serbia will be hoping to cause a shock and gain a result against Brazil as they look to advance from a testing Group C.

Blackburn Rovers put their strong home record of just two Ewood Park defeats well and truly to the test on Saturday against a Birmingham side whom, despite some poor recent away results, have been a difficult team to overcome on the road this season.

* While there are, as of yet, no clinical studies to confirm the results, a laboratory study conducted at the College of Pharmacy at Oregon State University (OSU) presented at a December 2007 meeting of the American Society of Health - System Pharmacists found that an ointment containing benzethonium chloride with tea tree and white thyme oil worked best against all four tested MRSA strains, while ointments containing neomycin, polymyxin, and gramicidin also had some antibacterial effectiveness.

Mothers can communicate with donors directly and request blood test results to help protect against the spread of disease and viruses.

When we test this as a thematic attack against Republican incumbents, it was very potent, underscoring our recent national results on this issue.

The state Board of Regents, which sets education policy, already decided in February to advise school districts against using results of Common Core tests in decisions regarding students» promotion and class placement.

The move comes after NYSUT pushed back this year against efforts by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to overhaul the state's teacher evaluation system, with the performance evaluations linked to both standardized test results and in - classroom observation, while also making it more difficult for teachers to obtain and keep tenure.

In a dramatic about - face and as parents revolt against what they see as over-testing of their kids, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is reportedly pushing for the role of test results in establishing teacher performance evaluations to be reduced — possibly even to zero.

Known for developing theories based on experimentation and data collection rather than abstract thought, Alhazen stressed the need to test results — especially those considered canon, as he wrote in his Doubts Against Ptolemy:

The resulting $ 1.16 million Extreme Events initiative would test the trio's approach against the most advanced power grid simulator then available, operated by scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), to predict where and how often big blackouts struck.

Using the calibrated models, the researchers then applied NIRS to a random mix of mosquitoes and checked the results against validation tests using mosquito extracts for molecular detection of strain - specific Wolbachia DNA to determine accuracy.

«Protein isolated from baker's yeast shows potential against leukemia cells: Researchers performed in vitro trials to test the effect of L - asparaginase on acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells and published the results in Scientific Reports.»

The results reinforce the idea that it is too soon to implement widespread testing for the mutations, say experts, who caution against drastic responses — such as mastectomies — for women who test positive.

Next, the researchers tested the volunteers» pain sensitivity with the «thumbsmasher,» a machine that applies pressure to 18 points on the body, and compared the results against scans assessing white matter function.

(Yesterday, the agency launched precisionFDA, a web platform for diagnostics companies, researchers, and healthcare providers to validate genetic tests against reference materials and share their results.)

To tease out whether these correlations were due to a small sample size or chance, the researchers used a more sophisticated statistical technique called principal components analysis, testing the actual results against 10,000 randomly generated simulations.

They'll test it against Pseudomonas infections in mice, and the results of the experiment should be ready by next summer.

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.

Since direct comparative studies were lacking, the manufacturer referred to results on dasabuvir, in which the drug was not tested against the appropriate comparator therapy, however.

«Although data clearly indicate better immune responses and vaccine efficacy against both genital warts and cervical dysplasia when vaccination occurs before age 14, this study suggests that HPV vaccination may be effective in reducing abnormal Pap test results even after sexual debut,» explained co-author Rebecca Perkins, MD, MSc, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine and a gynecologist at Boston Medical Center.

But studies have shown that many people avoid getting tested because they are afraid the results will somehow be used against them.

However, Sandel et al. focus on results that support their hypothesis, rather than testing it against its most obvious competitor: that endemic species occur in places where contemporary patches of climatically appropriate habitat are small.

One anticoagulant that Geisbert helped test against the virus was greeted with great enthusiasm when he presented results 7 years ago, because it was the first time a drug had much impact — and yet it only reduced deaths in monkeys by one - third.

The 100 stories here capture scientific curiosity in all its stages: provocative early results, long - sought confirmations, and many steps in the iterative process of testing theory against observation and vice versa.

It is the first study demonstrating that the extract protects against oral cancer, with the results of human, animal and laboratory tests reported in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.

«These results enable us to determine whether potential treatments will be effective against patients» symptoms by testing them first in healthy volunteers and defining the best doses based on objective physiological data before conducting costly clinical trials,» said Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, the Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at CUMC, and Principal Investigator of this study.

In this study, stainless steel CMF panels are manufactured and tested against high explosive incendiary (HEI) rounds to study their resistance against explosive blast pressure and the resulting fragments.

The result: a form of BanLec that worked against the viruses that cause AIDS, hepatitis C and influenza in tests in tissue and blood samples — without causing inflammation.

Using a new mouse model, we propose to test whether the spread of tangles through the brain is a result of abnormal tau overwhelming the cell's ability to clear it and whether we can boost cell defenses against tangles using clinically approved drugs that have not been used for this purpose previously.

The results of our research will be applied to evaluation and management of patients with dengue and to development and testing of vaccines and therapeutics against dengue.

That finding was then tested against data from two other studies, which echoed that result.

Now, researchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to retrain the immune system to ignore allergens by developing a nasal spray that vaccinates against peanut allergies, with promising results in mouse tests.

«The hypothesis to be tested experimentally in ADAPT was whether longer - lasting selective pressure by UV radiation results in a higher UV resistance, as well as in a higher resistance against further «extreme» environmental factors that exist in space,» Wassmann said.

Whole Genome Sequencing Not Informative for All A study involving data of thousands of identical twins by Johns Hopkins investigators finds that whole genome sequencing fails to provide informative guidance to most people about their risk for most common diseases, and warns against complacency born of negative genome test results.

The results of the RV144 trial have already prompted scientists to rethink how they approach and test a vaccine to protect against HIV.

At the first plenary session of AIDS Vaccine 2011, which opened this morning in Bangkok, Thailand, researchers presented the results of a two - year - long effort to try to identify an immunological explanation for the modest 31 % efficacy afforded by the prime - boost vaccine regimen tested in the RV144 trial, the first to show any efficacy in protecting against HIV infection.

The machine is very accurate when I compare it against lab test results.