Sentences with phrase «tests as a baseline»

It may be helpful to test it as a baseline, and then do follow - up testing after various interventions to see if there was any improvement.

As your pet approaches senior status, your veterinarian may recommend basic blood and urine tests as a baseline for measuring future changes.

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Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

Using the analysis above as a baseline, we also tested other scenarios and found that Pacific Time Zone teams traveling east perform even worse after covering the spread in their previous game.

This includes: 1) teaching coaches and their staff what to look for in the potentially concussed athlete, 2) developing a concussion policy for teams and leagues, and 3) helping to provide pre-injury baseline ImPACT testing as well as post-injury evaluations for athletes.

Moser brings to the subject matter a unique background: As a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recoverAs a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recoveras a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recovery.

As Dr. Robert Cantu explains in his 2012 book, Concussions and Our Kids, [15] it «takes more than one type of test to compile a comprehensive baseline,» because neurocognitive tests measure the thinking and reasoning parts of the brain (medial temporal lobe and front lobe), but concussions «also may cause trauma to the calcarine cortex, which is in the back of the brain and controls vision, and the cerebellum, at the top of the neck, where balance and coordination are measured.

Baseline pre-injury and post-injury neuropsychological or neurocognitive testing is now commonplace at the professional and collegiate level, and has become more and more common at the high school level as well, with a recent study showing computerized neuropsychological testing being used to assess fully 41.2 % of concussions at schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff in the 2009 - 2010 year, [2] an increase of 15.5 % from the 25.7 % of concussions in which such testing was used in assessing concussions during the 2008 - 2009 school year.

Once an athlete's baseline score has been established, re-testing can then be performed right on the sports sideline, as the «test stands up in an active setting», Dr. Balcer told MomsTeam.

As with other neuropsychological testing tools, the value of the SAC in concussion assessment is maximized when individual baseline test data is available because, without such baselines, the athlete's postinjury performance on neuropsychological testing and other concussion assessment measures, such as the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population samplAs with other neuropsychological testing tools, the value of the SAC in concussion assessment is maximized when individual baseline test data is available because, without such baselines, the athlete's postinjury performance on neuropsychological testing and other concussion assessment measures, such as the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population samplas the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population sample.

The National Athletic Trainers» Association 2014 position statement on the management of sport - related concussion [14] says all athletes should «ideally» undergo a preseason baseline assessment, but, that, at a minimum, athletes who are at a high risk of concussion based on their sport should be included in any baseline testing program, with athletes with a significant concussion history, or other relevant pre-existing condition, such as attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder, tested on an individual basis.

The current international consensus of experts (Zurich consensus statement), [1] views computerized neuropsychological or neurocognitive (NP) testing as having clincal value in evaluation for concussion and as an aid in determining when it is safe for an athlete to return to play after a concussion, and recommends formal baseline NP screening of athletes in all organized sports in which there is a high risk of concussion (e.g. football, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, basketball), regardless of the age or level of performance.

There is, however, some controversy here, because when researchers stuck microphones in pregnant women's uteruses for a 1990 study I'm glad I wasn't a part of, they found that fetuses are exposed to between 72 and 88 decibels of baseline noise in the womb — the latter being about as loud as the maximum output of the white - noise machines tested in the study.

«With baseline testing, we can screen for increased risk factors, such as ADHD or history of a previous concussion,» says Zwibel.

For the rapid number naming test, athletes are given a baseline test before the season starts where they are asked to read numbers as quickly as they can off a series of three reading cards while being timed with a stopwatch.

In addition to general fitness, calisthenics exercises are often used as baseline physical evaluations to test physical fitness.

On reanalysing data from the group's past studies, such as on pain sensitivity to hot water, the researchers found that mice tested by men showed lower baseline pain sensitivity than mice tested by women.The work indirectly demonstrates potential effects on nearly any kind of medical research, says Joseph Garner, who studies mouse behavior and well - being at Stanford University in California.

After an hour - long informational session, a follow - up questionnaire found that nearly all attendees were able to correctly answer questions about the rationale for screening, the difference between the need for additional testing and a cancer diagnosis, the benefit of negative screenings as a baseline for future comparisons, and the continued importance of physical examinations.

Participants underwent baseline pressure and thermal pain testing and were randomly assigned to SMT, placebo SMT, enhanced placebo SMT (same as placebo SMT except subjects were informed they would get SMT or a placebo intervention) or no intervention.

«But I thought it was worth pointing out that this equation has strong potential as another way to detect poor effort on baseline testing.»

Pape and colleagues first did baseline testing to see how responsive patients were to sensory information such as bells or whistles, if they followed directions to open their eyes and if they were alert enough to visually track someone walking across the room.

He got up at the same time and ate the same breakfast as he had for his baseline test the previous weekend.

The tree also provides a baseline to test whether diurnal, or daytime, activity, a common butterfly trait, evolved much earlier than scientists previously believed, possibly at a time when bats» spread across the planet, as a means of escaping these and other nocturnal predators, Kawahara said.

To evaluate whether the experimental treatment is safe and whether it might be able to reduce frailty, Maharaj plans to run a battery of baseline testing on each clinical trial participant before they get their first infusion of young plasma and then monitor their changes for two years: That means cognitive exams, questionnaires about their quality of life and their indicators of frailty, and tests to measure biomarkers he believes are linked with aging, such as telomere lengths and DNA methylation.

In federal crash tests, the agencies found that advanced lightweight materials — in this case a mix of high - strength steel and aluminum, and a small amount of magnesium and composite material — performed just as well as baseline vehicle models.

Rather than screening an athlete's blood or urine samples for traces of banned substances right before or after a competition, testers using the ABP scheme compare samples with an athlete's baseline profile, as determined by multiple tests over time.

«The fact that this event is twice as far as the previous two gives us a longer baseline to test the dispersion relation, and as a result we now have a limit on the mass of the graviton that is 30 percent tighter than the one we previously set.

«It's the exquisite test pedigree of the baseline for this design that gives very high confidence that it will work as expected.»

Decline in cognitive test scores over 10 years (% change = change / range of text × 100) as function of baseline age cohort in men and women, estimated from linear mixed models.

Starting with a baseline test, athletes can track their progress, as their weight to strength ratio increases.

If you to test your Vitamin D levels, our WellnessFX Baseline blood lab package includes 25 - Hydroxy Vitamin D (as well as a closer look into liver and kidney health, electrolytes, inflammation, and more).

There has been some changes, some notable drops and some films that simply didn't stand the test of time as well as our immediate excitement may have lead us to believe they would, but for the most part, the baseline is there.

Hobby's controversial proposal, published on the NAHT blog, follows recent government intentions to places a stronger focus on progress as a measure of schools, and the introductions of the new Progress 8 measure at GCSE and baseline tests at the beginning of a child's formal education.

North Carolina: A four - year growth trajectory, with a student's first tested year in the state as a baseline, will be calculated for all nonproficient students.

Restricting the study to those students for whom baseline test scores are available affords a check on whether the lottery worked as intended and whether any problems arose downstream.

Krueger and Zhu, in their preferred results, as presented in their «Comment» on Barnard, exclude these baseline test scores.

As it turns out, the standard errors are larger, not smaller, when estimating statistical models that include all students but do not control for baseline test scores.

This provided us with what are known as «baseline test scores» that can be used to obtain more precise estimates of program effects.

- Can be used as a Baseline test for year 9 and GCSE Art students.

To measure the effect on children's test scores of switching to a private school, we estimate a statistical model that takes into account whether a child attended a public or a private school, as well as baseline reading and math test scores.

Moreover, there are statistical shocks to achievement in a given school and subject — such as a dog barking in the parking lot on the day of the test — which could also introduce a mechanical relationship between the value - added estimates from prior years and student's baseline achievement this year (Kane and Staiger 2002).

As such, there will be optional baseline tests if schools want to take them next year, but the results will not be used for «accountability purposes».

This opposes the baseline assessment tests which the government wants to introduce as the starting point for measuring progress through primary school.

Tests for pupils at the beginning of school, known as «baseline tests», were intended as a starting point against which to measure progress through primary scTests for pupils at the beginning of school, known as «baseline tests», were intended as a starting point against which to measure progress through primary sctests», were intended as a starting point against which to measure progress through primary school.

The open letter describes all approaches to baseline assessment as «standardised baseline tests» and goes on to a blanket condemnation of these «tests».

It also brings to an end a difficult week for the Department for Education, which has already faced criticism from the National Audit Office for its accounts, and comes just weeks after the government announced it would no longer be using new reception baseline tests as an performance measure for schools after concerns were raised about comparability.

«We are deeply concerned that a baseline test will lead to four - year - olds with SEND or who are very young being labelled as low ability.

One of the biggest concerns around introducing the baseline test is that schools «don't have a massive incentive to produce high results for the baseline» as this could make demonstrating progress more challenging, he added.

Meanwhile, state Superintendent Tom Torlakson has continued to caution against comparing any Smarter Balanced Assessment scores, including 11th - grade results, with those from previous standardized tests, instead saying this year's scores should only serve as a baseline going forward.

As the date for the releases of the test scores approached, we received many notices of «talking points» to inform our communities about the outcomes, with explanations of new baselines and how these tests do not reflect the efforts of students and teachers this year.