The entire
testing procedures used are skewed to begin with unless we all start driving on dynamometers.
After the Ford announcement, the EPA stated that it will update
the test procedures used to assign fuel economy ratings to cars «to ensure that the requirements keep pace with industry trends and innovations in advanced high - efficiency vehicles.»
The authors will make freely available upon request reproducible datasets and details on software applications, reagents and
test procedures used in this study.
Not exact matches
With reason also comes a greater degree of self - consciousness about the
procedures used to arrive at and
test the validity of statements concerning religion, morality, and nature.
Furthermore, its
use of a rational - empirical methodology for deriving and
testing knowledge motivates it to adopt the
procedure of standing outside the Christian faith and evaluating that faith in terms of a so - called «objective criterion.»
Follow - up
testing will be conducted
using the same
procedures as initial
testing.
All equipment is
tested following cleaning
using methods and
procedures that are approved for
use in food plants to verify allergen status.
Never before had drug
tests trapped so many at a single event, prompting rumors that the equipment and
procedures being
used in Caracas were part of a new, more sophisticated technology.
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.
We estimated differences in resource
use and costs with the independent samples t
test procedure and differences in effects with odds ratios and weighted incidence rates from the cohort study.
What harms do routine or frequent
use of
tests,
procedures, and restrictions introduce?
There was an increase (+2 %) in the numbers of
procedures for safety
testing (toxicology) to 399,000, due to increased
use of fish in regulatory toxicology, with a higher proportion carried out to meet more than one legislative / regulatory requirement (75 % compared with 72 % in 2010).
The following links provide access to general methods of
testing used by the Laboratory, submssion guidelines, complaint
procedure and the documents necessary for submitting evidence, filing a complaint or submitting a customer satisfaction survey.
A special New York State panel of experts is scheduled tomorrow to discuss and possibly propose ways of
using an emerging DNA
testing procedure to help state and local law enforcement solve cold cases.
The two researchers first
tested the bees» gustatory response to sugar
using a standard
procedure.
Immunophenotyping — a laboratory
procedure used to study the proteins expressed by cells — is very commonly
used in basic science research as well as in laboratory diagnostic
testing.
The
procedure may also be effective for treating conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, but must be
tested for potential side effects before it can be approved for wider
use.
«We are now
using these measures in the Procedural Pain in Premature Infants (Poppi) trial to
test whether [they] can provide effective pain relief for prematurely born babies during invasive medical
procedures,» she says.
This project includes a trial at Duke University that
tests the idea of capturing clinical trial data in a single source and sharing the data
using standard protocols, with direct implications for future research
procedures and health care quality.
Researchers
used positron emission tomography (PET) scans and neuropsychological
tests to assess brain function and activity in the participants prior to surgery and six months after the
procedure.
In six healthy volunteers
used to
test and calibrate the system, the
procedure worked with up to 99 per cent accuracy.
The reports also outline the processes and
procedures used to identify invasive mussels through DNA
testing.
Adjustments made to alpha levels (e.g., Bonferroni correction) or other
procedure used to account for multiple
testing (e.g., false discovery rate control) should be reported.
For the guideline, authors compared evidence for fMRI and the more commonly
used procedure, intracarotid amobarbital
procedure, also known as the Wada
test, which is performed during angiography.
Be that as it may, one thing is certain — this is a golden opportunity for the development, validation, and application of alternative
test methodologies and
testing strategies, namely,
procedures that do not rely on the
use of laboratory animals.
«The Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress estimated that fewer than 30 percent of
procedures currently
used in conventional medicine have been rigorously
tested.
Using genetic
testing to inform which blood thinner to
use following a
procedure to open narrowed blood vessels resulted in significantly fewer complications among patients, according to new research in Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, an American Heart Association journal.
The
test improves diagnosis time from as many as five days
using current
procedures, according to a recent study published Sept. 1 in the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation.
«If it was possible to biopsy cells from a placenta or
use diagnostic
tests, why wouldn't we be
using this today to improve the outcome of the IVF
procedure?»
For the current study, Jessica Childs, a graduate student in Kroener's lab, applied VNS to a
test group of rats
used in the study in a process called «extinction learning» to determine whether the
procedure could help the animals learn different behaviors and reduce their drug cravings.
Industry representatives argue that the ethical and scientific
procedures they currently
use for human pesticide
tests are no different from those employed in clinical trials of drugs.
At the Jackson Laboratory in Maine, gerontologist David Harrison and his team chose to
test rapamycin, which is already approved for
use in
procedures such as kidney transplants, because previous research showed that the drug increases the life span of flies and may reduce cancer in mammals.
Both ultrasound and PCR
tests for uterine cervical secretion are non-invasive
procedures, and
using them can offer a safer method to
test high - risk pregnant women and predict the occurrence of congenital infection.
But, this type of study is not always
used when
testing new medical products for FDA approval, and it is particularly rare for new devices, which are subject to different regulatory
procedures from prescription drugs.
He hopes that the committee will encourage national bodies to
use the same sampling policy and
procedures,
testing and interpretation methods.
There is a simple reason why the drug cocktail was not
tested before it was
used: executions are not medical
procedures.
Empa has already
tested three new lower mid-range diesel vehicles with the current exhaust gas standard Euro 6
using the new RDE
procedure.
The
testing procedure, known as defibrillator
testing (DT), is commonly
used on people who require implantable cardioverter - defibrillators (ICDs) to prevent sudden cardiac death.
In 2010 in a paper published inScience Translational Medicine, Lo's group showed that enough such fragments of fetal DNA are there to reconstruct the fetus's whole genome, and that it should be possible to
use this DNA to
test the unborn child for genetic diseases without exposing it to the risk of an invasive
procedure.
Dr Marcus Neumann, author of the computer program GRACE for crystal structure prediction, which predicted eight out of nine targets correctly in this blind
test and eight out of ten targets in the previous two blind
tests, said: «Obviously, we are delighted with these results, in particular because unlike in earlier blind
tests they have been obtained by a fully automated
procedure that can be
used as a black box in industrial working environments.»
As described in a new paper, NIST's prototype breast phantom was
tested on MRI systems from two manufacturers in three configurations and produced accurate, quantitative images that could be
used to evaluate common imaging
procedures.
Other attempts to extract temperature info from a matrix of tree ring chronologies
using a statistical fitting
procedure have to pass statistical
tests benchmarked with reference to the characteristics of the specific data set being studied.
Inside a warm - water
testing environment controlled to maintain human body temperature, the researchers implanted the prosthetics inside the models, being careful to place the new valves in the exact location that was
used during the clinical
procedure for each case.
Testing should include all returned samples
using methods proven suitable, such as ISO 21149, and following usual
procedures applied in the laboratories.
The following
tests and
procedures may be
used in the staging process:
This new
procedure is being
tested on former racehorses and rodeo horses to determine if it is more effective than a commonly
used cartilage repair treatment in the U.S. called «microfracture.»
In addition, we
used the blood samples and we repeated the training and
testing procedures (× 100) separately in post-mortem and in pre-mortem samples.
We carried out validation of the model
using a variogram - based
procedure, which
tested the compatibility of the adopted spatial structure with the data.
Once we fabricate electrodes and measure their surface areas, we
use a suite of characterization methods to determine unknown semiconductor properties by the following
procedure: We determine the conductivity type of an unknown material by monitoring the open - circuit potential response upon illumination, which is important to establish the reverse - bias conditions
used for all subsequent
testing.
The TAP reactor can be
used to direct high - throughput
testing with detailed kinetic information for comparing distinctive composition, synthesis and processing
procedures.