Sentences with phrase «testing efforts by»

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Facebook is stepping up its efforts to compete with Twitch and YouTube for video game streaming: The company is now offering select video gamers a chance to monetize their gameplay live streams on Facebook by giving their audience a way to tip them as part of a test of new monetization options.

That research will be crucial: An earlier effort by another company, Pathway Genomics, to create a «liquid biopsy» for cancer was greeted in September by a stern letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning that the agency had «not found any published evidence that this test or any similar test has been clinically validated as a screening tool for early detection of cancer in high risk individuals.»

Comedian and late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel tackled the latest Obamacare repeal effort head - on during his opening monologue last night, arguing that the bill being pushed by Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy and others fails the so - called «Kimmel test» for people with pre-existing conditions — and that Cassidy «lied to [his] face» on the issue.

According to a recent Morgan Stanley Research report, these POC efforts, which test Blockchain's viability as a settlement and payment alternative, are the first critical step toward adopting the technology, followed by broader socialization within the industry and regulatory scrutiny.

The effort by Ant Financial, the payments affiliate of the internet giant Alibaba, was seen as a test of the Trump administration's political and regulatory approach to China.

The 2014 effort was part of a high - tech form of voter persuasion touted by the company, which under Bannon identified and tested the power of anti-establishment messages that later would emerge as central themes in President Trump's campaign speeches, according to Chris Wylie, who left the company at the end of that year.

By Anna Irrera (Reuters)- State Street has tested a blockchain system that it hopes can be used to streamline the securities lending process as the financial industry accelerates efforts to adopt the emerging technology.

Wal - Mart is testing the use of facial recognition software to support loss prevention efforts by scanning shoppers as they enter the store and cross referencing the images with a database of alleged shoplifters.

While efforts to reduce someone s grieving may seem justified as acts of love, and motivated only by a wish to minimize another's pain (and thus are difficult, especially for the bereaved, to challenge), they fail the first test of love: they do not show respect.

Praise your child's efforts by saying things like, «I noticed you didn't give up during the game today and it paid off, «or «I like the way you studied so hard for your spelling test.»

Support a multi-year effort led by world - class scientists to develop a blood test for earlier detection of breast cancer when survival rates are the highest, known as the EIF Breast Cancer Biomarker Discovery Project.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Al Graf (R,C,I - Holbrook), Assemblyman Dean Murray (R,C,I - East Patchogue) and Assemblyman Ed Ra (R - Franklin Square), today took their efforts to the next level to inform parents of their rights to have their children refuse to take the Common Core standardized tests by launching a new statewide petition drive: RefuseCommonCore.com.

Mulgrew shared news of a bipartisan effort by federal lawmakers to overhaul No Child Left Behind and move away from the harmful emphasis on high - stakes testing in favor of a more balanced approach that targets educational inequality.

Thanks to the distribution of 400 million mosquito nets coated with insecticide, and hundreds of millions of testing kits and treatment courses, made possible by the committed efforts of the world's largest investors in the malaria effort, notably, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and the World Bank, malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa have decreased by one third over the past ten years.

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.

The state Health Department is ramping up efforts to combat the Zika virus, offering symptomatic individuals who have traveled to countries impacted by the disease free testing.

Bannon oversaw the effort to siphon up Facebook data to create a powerful voter targeting tool and was a top executive at Cambridge when it tested themes such as «drain the swamp» later harnessed by Trump.

The reduction in test time is part of ongoing efforts by the state and the city to scale back high - stakes testing.

Principal investigator Cari Herrmann - Abell and her colleagues plan to expand on their previous efforts to develop multiple - choice test items by developing a set of constructed or open - ended response items that can be used in combination with the multiple - choice items to measure students» understanding of core disciplinary ideas, science practices, and crosscutting concepts — the three dimensions of science learning that are central to the vision of NGSS.

To increase scientists» confidence, the result must be verified by other experiments and additional tests, says theoretical cosmologist Matias Zaldarriaga of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Several other efforts to detect the signal are already under way.

The 17 December ruling upheld a lower court's decision to deny an effort by Myriad Genetics to prevent another company from developing genetic tests that Myriad says are still protected by its patents — despite the 2013 Supreme Court decision that knocked out some elements of those patents.

«To better understand safety issues, we are making efforts to employ more modern investigational, molecular approaches to safety assessment — and increase our safety testing work force by about 10 percent,» says Phil Bentley, vice president and global head of preclinical safety at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in New York City.

The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health's Project Accept — a trial conducted by the HIV Prevention Trials Network to test a combination of social, behavioral and structural HIV - prevention interventions — demonstrated that a series of community efforts boosted the number of people tested for HIV and resulted in a 14 percent reduction in new HIV infections, compared with control communities.

In a report on their HIV epidemic - economic model, published online in October by the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, the researchers say that efforts to encourage people with HIV to follow up regularly with their provider and maintain long - term drug therapy may be more fruitful in preventing HIV transmission than efforts to increase HIV testing alone.

Current efforts are focused on identifying TB - specific surface proteins that are targeted by CD4 + and CD8 + T cells and testing them in their multi-organ computational model.

The researchers suggest, based on their analysis of the data, that screening compliance could be increased by focusing educational and outreach efforts on certain groups who were less likely to get their infants screened for congenital CMV: less educated mothers, babies not born in a hospital and infants who received hearing tests later than 14 days after birth.

The three Penn study authors are also participating with Cognition in a NASA effort reported earlier this year to study the molecular, physiological and psychological effects of spaceflight on the human body by comparing identical twins, evidencing the need for a comprehensive cognitive test battery for spaceflight.

Lately, as envirogenomics has taken off, scientists have begun to test for genetic markers in humans who are most heavily exposed to pollutants, an effort that got a huge boost in 2006 when Congress approved the $ 40 million Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative, a program administered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The expense and effort are increased by the FDA requirement that any company applying for approval of a drug targeted against a specific gene - driven abnormality must also produce a diagnostic test for that abnormality.

In an effort to further exploit the potential of Pexa - Vec to activate the immune system to fight cancer, as seen in McDonald's preclinical data, SillaJen recently announced a new clinical trial in collaboration with New York - based Regeneron Inc. to test Pexa - Vec and REGN2810, a PD - 1 checkpoint inhibitor, in combination against renal cell carcinoma, and recently signed a sponsored research agreement with UCSF to enable joint support of parallel preclinical experiments by McDonald's team.

«Our major goal is to test this hypothesis by training women with breast cancer - related weakness using high effort plus moderate intensity exercise vs low effort combined with moderate intensity muscle exercise,» said Dr. Yue.

This complements detector characterization and simulation efforts by testing their validity.

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.

Another reason why EPA started with estrogen was that high - throughput in vitro assays were already developed either commercially for use in drug discovery by the pharmaceutical industry or through an interagency government effort called Toxicology Testing in the 21st Century, or Tox21.

NASA plans to send humans to Mars by 2030, and in an effort to determine the resources, conditions and crew cohesion and performance, the six scientists had been living there since Aug. 29, 2015 — the longest test of its kind since a Russian mission that lasted 520 days.

If 30 minutes is daunting, this test can be modified by simply performing three 5 minute hard, sustainable efforts with 5 minutes rest between each effort.

By increasing your test levels, you're putting your body in a position to utilize all your effort in the weight room while mitigating the chances of your body taking away from it.

For example, Masuda et al. (2005) found that ball velocity during maximal kicking efforts by university soccer players was associated with hip adductor but not knee extensor torque production during isokinetic testing.

The show plays like a slapdash effort, conceived less by creative spark than as the product of focus - group testing, with a dash of nostalgia thrown in.

While it's engaging, tantalizing and consistently interesting, it tests the listener by wading through a foliage of field recordings and mouth harps to get to its core, requiring an effort which can potentially get wearying at times.

Jéssica, ever the rebellious teen, arrogantly tests the limits of Bárbara's hospitality by inviting herself to stay in the guest room, and then mirroring the family's own behaviour in an effort to break down the divide.

That's where his circumstances turn even worse, as Zamperini becomes a target of ridicule and torture by the Japanese, testing his spirituality, patriotism, luck, physical dexterity and mental fortitude in an inspirational and courageous effort to survive.

Developer Slightly Mad Studios has confirmed they're making a follow - up effort to the well - received title and like the first, it'll be crowdfunded and tested by the...

Koretz is a senior researcher with the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), a collaborative effort of several universities and research organizations funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

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.

Many trainers justify their efforts by simply conducting tests.

In a generally well - meaning effort to impose «accountability,» some policymakers have attempted to regulate school choice programs as they regulate district schools, including by mandating state tests.

«Many schools have given kids grades for academic performance and grades for effort, and there are lots of practices that reflect a recognition of the importance of skills not directly measured by tests.

Our study overcomes the limits of short - term analysis by asking: when schools face accountability pressure, do their efforts to raise test scores generate improvements in higher education attainment, earnings, and other long - term outcomes?

Increasing the stakes attached to the MEAP assessment also improved the academic environment by focusing the efforts of teachers and students on a good test.