Sentences with phrase «tested by other researchers»

The conclusion is provisional: like all such findings, it will be tested by other researchers in other ways.

Not exact matches

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.

The mark assures that the product contains less than 10 - ppm gluten (5 - ppm gliadin) and similar proteins from rye and barley as measured by using testing methods that are accepted for gluten testing by analytical associations such as the Association of Analytical Communities (AOAC), testing researchers and other such agencies.

In lab tests, prototype multilayer lenses have shown they can release ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic often used to treat eye and other infections) for up to 100 days, according to a study published in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's (MEEI) ophthalmology department, Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering department.

In a recent test of Asian tiger mosquitoes collected in Brazil, researchers found fragments of Zika virus RNA, raising concerns that it may be carried by species other than Zika's known primary vector, the yellow fever mosquito.

World Health Organization researcher Ana Maria Henao - Restrepo and colleagues tested a «ring vaccination» approach, by immediately vaccinating family members and other contacts of people infected with Ebola.

The researchers also tested whether their data could be explained by other factors, for example by people simply meeting their partners because they lived in the same county.

To test the nasal vaccine in adults, researchers at 13 hospitals nationwide, led by Kristin Nichol of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, gave it to more than 2800 people in fall 1997; 1400 others got a placebo.

The researchers also tested the pathogenicity of the virus by using it to infect mice, which succumbed more quickly than mice infected with other H5N1 strains.

To test the potential benefit of testosterone treatment in men who had low testosterone levels for no other reason than advancing age, Yale researchers collaborated with investigators at 12 institutions, led by the University of Pennsylvania, to conduct the TTrials.

The report emphasized the need for infrastructure that supports and enables repeatable experiments by creating easy ways for researchers to test each others» results.

Researchers used data from sensors designed to detect clandestine nuclear tests, among other sources, to identify airbursts with an energy equivalent to or larger than that released by 1 kiloton of exploding TNT.

The researchers solved this problem by developing markers to label the cells of interest and then testing different enzymes and other reagents to draw them out of tissues.

A new test may reveal which patients will respond to treatment for graft versus host disease (GVHD), an often life - threatening complication of stem cell transplants (SCT) used to treat leukemia and other blood disorders, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published online today in the journal Lancet Haematology and in print in the January issue.

Tan and other researchers in the laboratory of Georgia Tech Professor Lin Jiang tested that hypothesis using P. fluorescens, which rapidly evolves into two general phenotypes differentiated by the ecological niches they adopt in static test tube microcosms.

Because of testing inefficiencies, maintenance inadequacies and other factors, cars, trucks and buses worldwide emit 4.6 million tons more harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) than standards allow, according to a new study co-authored by University of Colorado Boulder researchers.

Patients with chest pain have similar rates of heart attacks and other major cardiac events within two years whether they were evaluated with a new type of CT scan or the traditional stress test, according to results presented today by Duke Medicine researchers at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology.

Researchers plan to assess the new modified antigen against other candidates in advanced strep throat vaccine tests in nonhuman primates beginning later this year in Atlanta, Georgia, funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.

The vaccine, developed and tested by researchers from the National Institutes of Health and other groups, was administered in multiple doses intravenously.

Like other parts of the GI tract grown by the researchers, the human colon organoids also create a potential new platform for testing new drugs before the start of clinical trials.

A team of UNC researchers and collaborating researchers from three other institutions — Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Utah and the BC Cancer Agency — designed this test that categorizes breast tumors into one of four main subtypes by looking at the expression of 50 genes.

The test can be used freely by other researchers, Brysbaert says.

Receiving these results does not appreciably drive up or diminish test recipients» demand for potentially costly follow - up health services, according to a study performed by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and colleagues at other institutions.

Unlike many heart studies that rely on blood sugar and cholesterol tests that anyone might get at a doctor visit, the Washington University researchers used positron emission tomography (PET) scans to image the heart and measure blood flow, oxygen consumption and fatty acid and glucose uptake by the heart, among other measures.

Researchers will next focus on testing the safety and improving the efficiency of the CRISPR - Cas9 process, possibly by using other genetic tools in combination with it, Mitalipov said.

In the laboratory tests researchers compared the effect of pomegranate extract on nitric oxide versus the same effect caused by other sources rich in antioxidants, such as grapes, blueberries, red wine and vitamins C and E.

Some researchers and health - care providers have expressed concern that the sense of security offered by the drug could lead people at high risk of HIV infection to grow complacent about condom use, routine HIV testing, and other precautions.

So, I think almost every credible researcher would agree that the vast majority of ways in which test scores are used by policymakers, regulators, portfolio managers, foundation officials, and other policy elites can not be reliable indicators of the ability of schools or programs to improve later life outcomes.

Finally, this research helps demonstrate that schools produce important educational outcomes other than those captured by math and reading test scores, and that it is possible for researchers to collect measures of those other outcomes.

Washington — Proposals by President Bush and others to create a national testing system are unlikely to improve schools and could set back reforms already under way, educational researchers cautioned at a meeting here last week.

According to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the primary overseer of research within the Department of Education, «scientifically based research» fits the following criteria: It randomly assigns its test subjects to comparable groups; it yields reliable, measurable data; if the study makes any claims about what causes its effects, it «substantially eliminates plausible competing explanations»; its methods are clear enough that other researchers can repeat or extend them; and, finally, the study has been accepted by a peer - reviewed journal or equivalent panel of «independent experts.»

Among other issues, researchers have considered which scaling properties are necessary for measuring growth (see, for example, here), whether the tests» scale properties met the assumptions of the statistical models being used (see, for example, here), if growth in student achievement is scale dependent (see, for example, here), and even if tests that were vertically scaled could meet the assumptions required by regression - based models (see, for example, here).

Thankfully, researchers realized that regardless of what test is being used in a state, there are ways to predict student performance by using other assessments earlier in the school year.

The data generated by the field test will allow researchers to dig into key questions such as the comparability of paper - based and computer - based tests, whether accessibility features worked properly, and whether student performance differed significantly on tablets versus laptops versus other equipment.

https://dibels.uoregon.edu/ MOTIf: A new resource for LDA and other professionals The Macquarie Online Test Interface (MOTIf), developed by Anne Castles and Genevieve McArthur from Macquarie University, is a resource that allows cognitive tests developed by researchers at Macquarie to be administered online.

Several other researchers from Northridge have attempted to study the performance of their teachers after graduation by using student test scores from the classrooms of recent graduates, however.

A group of researchers, led by Sean P. Corcoran, decided to test whether giving student custom lists of schools and other support would lead to better matches.

Researchers have identified the gene mutation that causes NEwS, and a DNA test is now available that allows breeders to avoid producing affected puppies by never breeding two dogs to each other if they are both carriers of the abnormal gene.

In this 18 - month study funded by Maddie's Fund, researchers hope to learn now many cats will test negative within six months after a positive test, to examine the accuracy of and agreement between different testing methods, to understand what can be learned from discordant test results, and potentially to identify why some cats overcome the virus and others don't.

The authors» report of the greater vulnerability of the permafrost to warmth will now be tested by other groups of researchers, who will seek to replicate it.

They're also not being performed by evil hackers — Miller, Valasek, and other hackers you may hear about are researchers who are testing the limits of connected - car security.

The traits the test looks at are sometimes referred to collectively as «The Big Five» factors, and were initially identified in the 1960s by social science researchers who frequently heard study participants use them to describe either themselves or others.

The heart rate monitors built into the Apple Watch and other wearable devices can detect abnormal heart rhythms with 97 percent accuracy, according to a new study conducted by the team behind the Cardiogram app for Apple Watch in conjunction with researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.More than 139 million heart rate and step count measurements were collected from 9,750 users of the Cardiogram app who also enrolled in the UC San Francisco Health eHeart Study, with the data used to train DeepHeart, Cardiogram's deep neural network.Once trained, DeepHeart was able to read heart rate data collected by wearables, distinguishing between normal heart rhythm and atrial fibrillation with a 97 percent accuracy rate, both when testing UCSF patients with known heart

A 2009 study led by researchers at the University of Denver found that most couples moved in for other reasons besides test - driving their relationship before marriage.

The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) was recently developed for the WHO by an international group of substance abuse researchers to screen for problem or risky use of tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine - type stimulants, sedatives, hallucinogens, inhalants, opioids, and «other drugs» that do not fall into the previous nine categories.40 The ASSIST was found to have high internal consistency (α > 0.80), correlated well against similarly worded items of other questionnaires, and good concurrent validity with a range of substance use and dependence measures.40