Sentences with phrase «tests were useful for»

While the tests were useful for objectively comparing fabrics, «we have to relate the numbers to people's own perceptions about whether that fabric is comfortable,» he says.

Although TSH testing is useful for indicating when a hypothyroid dysfunction exists (when levels are elevated), the problem lies in overreliance on it in ways contradicted by research.

This test is useful for: chronic or acute diarrhea, bloody stool, travelers diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever & vomiting, compromised immune system, and other chronic diseases (heart disease, aortic grafts, diabetes, chronic renal diseases).

Having students help write a test is useful for reviewing and for easing test anxiety.

This brief look at several widely recognized assessments demonstrates that none of these tests are useful for comparing the quality of schools or teachers — especially in the United States, with its diverse population, high poverty rates (by far the highest among developed nations), and wide variety of pedagogical philosophies.

Individualized achievement tests are useful for assessing a student's academic abilities.

Not exact matches

While cognitive tests have a slightly closer correlation with job success, personality tests are useful both as a basis for interview questions and for subsequent development.

Take it from AlphaGo creator Demis Hassabis: Games «are useful as a testbed, a platform for trying to write our algorithmic ideas and testing out how far they scale and how well they do and it's just a very efficient way of doing that.

These programs are useful if your business is very small or if you want to take the software for a longer test run than the trial period allows.

In our tests, Disconnect and Privacy Badger were useful tools for blocking trackers on Google's Chrome browser.

I believe it is a truth most useful internally, a litmus test for our souls when we are suffering.

Here are two instances which provide useful tests for Bultmann's proposed restatement of the kerygma.

Testing Turner's ideas against the religious texts that are the major source for historians of the Middle Ages, Carolyn Bynum finds that his formulation of liminality is applicable only to men, not to women, and useful for understanding only some male stories, namely, those of elites.

just because I'm often recipe testing or cooking for lots of people, but I think a midrange one would be super useful especially if you're not often making massive batches of stuff x

The goal of this sharing is to provide a useful point of reference and comparison for others interested in blood glucose testing and invite you too to share your questions, intentions or own results.

Thanks for testing the leavening so thoroughly and giving all the notes — I had to improvise a new recipe because I am living in Mexico where a lot of baking ingredients aren't available and it was extremely useful for adapting the recipe.

so let us pray and keep our fingers crossed we sail through this tough test and come out on the other side unscath before we start talking of people coming back from injuries... as far as am concerned they might all be as useful as drainer trying to scoop water if we are not in ccontention for the title

It's also a useful test for receivers and defensive backs capable of changing direction on a dime.

I have a large round top - loading kiln used for glazing, a small kiln used for biscuit firing, and a test kiln which is really useful for firing my earrings, brooches and smaller work, and for last - minute deadlines!

Standard paper and pencil neuropsychological tests (see box) have proven useful for identifying cognitive deficits resulting from concussions, and have been available to sports medicine clinicians for a number of years.

In fact, in some circles, this test is criticized for not being very useful.

On the other hand, if you confirm you are pregnant and you then need to manage another loss, this information might become useful, as you could justify to your healthcare provider testing that might illuminate potential underlying causes for your losses.

We're looking forward to testing it out soon; I suspect it will also be useful for keeping an eye on runaway Mickey.

may be a useful litmus test for keeping old band T - shirts and notebooks from college, maybe your scarf collection and household knick - knacks.

In this situation, GitHub and similar tools are very useful for tracking issues like, «Module «foo» is failing test number 23.»

And the surest test of whether a job is useful, is to ask whether people would pay for it if they were not forced to pay.

I said that you should not keep jobs going because their occupants need jobs (which seems to be the assumption made in your original post), but that you should keep them going if they are useful, and that the way to test usefulness is to ask whether people would pay for them voluntarily.

offers a useful summary of the effects of commonly - abused drugs, while making it clear that seafarers may be subject to testing for drugs under individual company policies..

«To be convinced that we have something here that will be useful for depression will require a wider panel of tests» in mice.

It was therefore demonstrated that blood tests can be useful for predicting future changes in fitness resulting from endurance training.

With further development, the technology could be useful in laparoscopes for medical testing and surgery.

«We've created a model that tests the ability to do sensory integration, which should be extremely useful for pharmaceutical research.»

Professor Anderson believes that if the LGS proves to be a useful cancer diagnostic test, it would be a highly valuable addition to the more traditional investigative procedures for detecting cancer.

Whereas in this experiment the scientists tested nanoscale environments at room temperature to about 1300 degrees Celsius (2372 degrees Fahrenheit), the HERMES could be useful for studying devices working across a wide range of temperatures, for example, electronics that operate under ambient conditions to vehicle catalysts that perform over 300 C / 600 F.

This test may be particularly useful for the police, as it can help track down criminals or identify human remains.

This pathway is currently the focus of development of targeted therapy for moderate - to - severe eczema, suggesting that these same agents being tested in adults could also be useful in young children.

This new study demonstrated that the test can also be used to identify people with precancerous polyps — a finding that makes it potentially more useful for a screening test, since it may be able to identify cancer risk before the disease actually develops.

The authors caution that further study and replication of their results in different populations is needed to verify their model before it will be useful for individual genetic tests — or before longevity «cocktails» are created.

These results should prove useful for setting new therapeutic and preventive targets: «At their parents» request, we also tested the siblings of some of the children carrying the mutation to see if they too are more fragile when it comes to infections.

These transgenic plants are a «useful cassava prototype for further studies,» he says, although field tests are required to make sure they'll reliably have less linamarin.

«We hope our temperature test for estimating the risk of vertebrate infection can be useful for assessing other viruses that keep being discovered,» says Dr. Junglen.

These findings suggest that miR135 could be a useful therapeutic molecule — both as a blood test for depression and related disorders, and as a target whose levels might be raised in patients.

«Given the key similarities to human infections, a marmoset model of Zika may be useful for testing of new drug and vaccines,» said Texas Biomedical Research Institute virologist Jean Patterson, Ph.D. «Having an animal model of Zika infection to study may help us identify places where we might be able to block transmission.»

These monkeys have been shown to have a high susceptibility to infection by a variety of pathogens including Ebola virus and Lassa virus that affect humans, making marmosets useful for drug and vaccine testing.

This test may be particularly useful for patients with high grade serous ovarian cancer because the mutated cancer gene TP53 is found in more than 99 per cent of patients with this form of the disease.

Sea lions may even prove useful for testing to treat or prevent epilepsy, he says: «I'm impressed by how the investigators contended successfully with the limitations and constraints of experimenting with wild animals.»

Jerome Engel, a neurologist at the University of California in Los Angeles, says that while EEG is a useful tool, test results are easy for physicians to misinterpret if they lack the proper training.

The use of hydrogen peroxide in the Broads is a potentially useful new management tool, if approved for use, and we welcome further testing and work with the John Innes Centre.»

«Our palladium - catalyzed sequential arylation reaction has been highly useful to rapidly synthesize a variety of triarylmethanes to be used for testing their effect on the cell division in plants,» says Nambo.

Dynamic tests would therefore be extremely useful for observing the formation of the protein corona in various in vitro environments in order to predict how the nanoparticles will ultimately behave in vivo.