Sentences with phrase «tested by the effects»

These people must be tested by the effects of their work.

Not exact matches

We find additional evidence of the isolation effect in a myriad of multivariate tests, including this one conducted by Paras Chopra and published in Smashing magazine.

The team tested the effects of sarcasm by having volunteers engage in a sincere, a sarcastic, or a neutral (control) exchange before completing a task designed to assess their creativity.

The series of studies led by New York University's Gabriele Oettingen tested the effects of positive thinking on subjects» moods, both in the moment and several months later.

That was followed by a financial stress test for buyers, which officially came into effect on Jan. 1 for federally regulated lenders, following an October announcement by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions.

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

Sarah and Matt also discuss a new white paper on the effects of redshirting in kindergarten (delaying a kid's start by a year), which suggest that being old for one's grade may result in higher test scores, increased college attendance, and reduced likelihood of incarceration for juvenile crime.

The latest contribution to the literature, Race and Bankruptcy, by Ed Morrison (Columbia), Belisa Pang (Columbia), and Antoine Uettwiller (Imperial College Business School), tests an alternative hypothesis that pivots on a selection effect: «Financially distressed African Americans may be more likely to benefit from Chapter 13 than other consumers.»

We perform an out - of - sample test of the Sell in May effect studied by Bouman and Jacobsen (American Economic Review, 2002).

GFI aims for diversity in their hires primarily through hiring practices that are intended to help them minimize the effects of bias, such as encouraging staff to score applications anonymously, using generalized ability tests, and meeting applicants only late in the process.88 While they've hired many women, including in seven of nine director roles, they find that their team is lacking in diversity in other ways, and they've met with Encompass to discuss further steps they can take to develop their diversity strategy.89 One staff member we spoke to mentioned that they hoped GFI would be able to begin paying interns, which might help diversify their team by broadening the pool of potential interns who could afford to take a position with GFI.90, 91

By excluding Allergan's recent string of acquisitions, the new rules would, in effect, shrink the Irish company's size, making it impossible for Pfizer to pass the 60 % test to access its $ 74 billion of deferred foreign earnings tax - free.

It tells the story of «the guinea pigs»» the people most likely to be research subjects in Phase I trials, which test the safety of a drug under development by giving it to healthy subjects and examining any side effects they experience.

The Journal of Health Economics paper tested this by examining the effect of recent schemes in England in which EBC is provided free of charge and without a prescription to adolescents, including those under the age of consent, and without any need for parental consent.

the proof of Gods presence in us is not limited to the material or biological evolutionary development only, but most important scientific proof is the effect of His will in historical development of the world.A computer program now used and tested a powerful machine by inputing all recorded events in history during the last hundreds years and found out that it has a purpose and not random.Meaning that an intelligent being could have influence it.It is now presumed by the religious observers that it could be His will.The process now is under improvement, because the computers is not powerl enough the deluge of information and data since the beginning of history, some analyst believes that in them near future if the Quantum computers which is much powerful than the present coventional will be used, then dramatic results and confirmation will be at hand.

This patently self - serving argument imposes, in violation of Article VI of the Constitution, what is in effect a «religious test» that would keep off federal courts not only Catholics but Jews, Muslims, Baptists, and anyone else who adheres to a tradition of moral truth that is sustained by communities that are labeled «religious.»

Atty. Zelda Soriano, Legal Counsel for the Petitioners discussed the grounds on which the appellate court based their favorable decision, which includes the main argument of the petitioners that the field testing is characterized by «serious scientific uncertainty with regard to its health and environmental effects.»

introducing legislation to establish an «effects test» in national competition law to protect small businesses from the impact of anti-competitive conduct by large, counterparty businesses

The Turnbull government's plan to introduce an effects test has been criticised by the Productivity Commission, which warns it will do little to shield farmers from intense competition among supermarket chains.

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.

Despite the uncertainty brought about by the various separate judgments delivered in Metcash, the ACCC has indicated it «will continue to assess the likely competitive effect of an acquisition on the basis of a «real chance» test».

The article focusses on concerns raised by Prof Graeme Samuel over the National Farmers Federation's proposed hybrid effects test.

One of the serendipitous side - effects of recipe testing was finding out that you can make mini crustless pumpkin pie by simply putting the pumpkin pie filling in ramekins and allowing it to set.

There has been plenty of media on the Harper Review's draft report released last Monday - including two items in today's AFR: Kate Walsh, «Lawyers see green light for mergers in Harper review» (The Australian Financial Review, 30 September 2014, page 15) and an opinion piece by former Competition Minister, Craig Emerson: «There are ill - effects in an effects test» (The Australian Financial Review, 30 September 2014, p 58).

The front page of today's Australian Financial Review features an article by Fleur Anderson («Business fights tough ACCC rule» (AFR, 2 September 2014, pages 1 and 6)-RRB- discussing concerns expressed about the ACCC to introduce an effects test.

See Lucy Barbour, «Push by farm lobby groups for «effects test» in competition review leaves economists worried» (ABC Rural, 13 August 2014).

The ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, has again defended the proposed introduction of an «effects test» for misuse of market power (s 46), claiming that criticisms offered by Woolworths, Coles and their supporters made no sense.

The issues paper notes that the Ministry's preliminary view is that the operation of s 36 has «not been satisfactory» because it appears «to be failing to maximise the long - term benefit of consumers», it is «too complex to allow for cost - effective and timely application» and is «misaligned with other prohibitions» in the Act by relying on a purpose test rather than an «effects» test.

The AFR has an opinion piece by former ACCC Chairman, Alan Fels: Alan Fels, «Tony Abbott's Harper Review «effects test» rejection shows reform incapacity» (AFR, 3 September 2015).

Small Busines Minister, Bruce Billson, has again rejected claims by the BCA that the proposed s 46 effects test would threaten competition.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

In any scientific experiment, there is always A / B testing by changing different inputs to see what effect they have.

But preliminary results already show powerful gap - closing effects for Educare students: If disadvantaged children enter Educare before their first birthday, they usually are, by the first day of kindergarten, essentially caught up with the national average on tests of basic knowledge and language comprehension, as well as on measures of noncognitive factors like attachment, initiative, and self - control.

But there are other early - childhood experts who are testing out less intensive (and less expensive) interventions to see if it is possible to have an outsize effect on children's outcomes by altering certain critical elements in their daily environments in precisely targeted ways.

Because the SAC only takes approximately 5 to 7 minutes to administer and was designed for use by clinicians with no neurocognitive testing experience, it is considered a «practical sideline assessment tool» (2) which can «detect changes across multiple domains of cognitive functioning that are susceptible to the acute effects of concussion.»

Prior to approval, drugs were safety - tested by giving them to people and observing the side effects.

Individual growth curve models were developed for multilevel analysis and specifically designed for exploring longitudinal data on individual changes over time.23 Using this approach, we applied the MIXED procedure in SAS (SAS Institute) to account for the random effects of repeated measurements.24 To specify the correct model for our individual growth curves, we compared a series of MIXED models by evaluating the difference in deviance between nested models.23 Both fixed quadratic and cubic MIXED models fit our data well, but we selected the fixed quadratic MIXED model because the addition of a cubic time term was not statistically significant based on a log - likelihood ratio test.

Biologist David Schubert warns, «Since children are the most likely to be adversely effected by toxins and other dietary problems, if the GM food is given to them without proper testing, they will be the experimental animals.

For cessation of exclusive breastfeeding by four to six weeks the test for subgroup differences indicates a possible differential treatment effect (test for subgroup differences: Chi ² = 7.12, df = 2 (P = 0.03), I ² = 71.9 %).

The effects of GWG and breastfeeding on weight retention at 6 mo postpartum were tested by using multiple linear regression.

For cessation of exclusive breastfeeding at up to six months the treatment effect appears to be greater when the intervention was delivered by non-professionals (lay support) compared with professionals or mixed support (test for subgroup differences: Chi ² = 7.74, df = 2 (P = 0.02), I ² = 73.1 %; Analysis 2.2).

The effect is that even if you do everything «right» in your writing, code and email design, and even if the Email on Acid test in Convio or a spam assassin score in Salsa rates your emails as «safe», you can still be evaluated as spam if people do not react by opening, clicking, etc..

Here's the point made endlessly by scientists or anyone with even a passing understanding of pharmacology: you can not test the causal mechanism for psychoactive effect in court.

Using its own economic simulation model, CEBR tested the knock - on effects of adding 1p to employers» NICs, paid by small and medium sized enterprises.

The new definition reads: «A substance produces a psychoactive effect in a person if, by stimulating or depressing the person's central nervous system, it affects the person's mental functioning or emotional state; as measured by the production of a pharmacological response on the central nervous system or which produces a response in in - vitro tests qualitatively identical to substances controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and references to a substance's psychoactive effects are to be read accordingly.»

«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.

New York Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney is pushing for a federally funded study by the Centers for Disease Control to better understand the long - term health effects of exposure to PFOS and PFOA after many residents tested above the national average.

And they also tested the effects of current environmental conditions as well as temperatures expected for the southern U.S. by the year 2080.

And by testing the effect of gravity on BECs of two different types of atoms, an atom interferometer could test the principle that all objects, no matter their weight or composition, accelerate at the exact same rate under gravity's pull — as Galileo Galilei supposedly demonstrated by dropping balls of different materials off the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.