Sentences with phrase «than testing specific»

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Rather than asking about specific needs, make sure the group is entertained with anything from interactive demos where members of the group can test or sample products, says Proeber.

On Wednesday, the company updated its $ 99 genealogy test to include more countries, which is far more specific than regions.

The results of the Asset Quality Review «AQR» and stress tests released October 26 were mostly benign, yet their specific conclusions matter less than their symbolic importance.

When residue testing detects prohibited substances at levels that are greater than 5 percent of the Environmental Protection Agency's tolerance for the specific residue detected or unavoidable residual environmental contamination, the agricultural product must not be sold, labeled, or represented as organically produced.

I'm afraid I haven't tested this with anything other than the specific blend I recommend, Amber.

There is more than one reason for any specific ranking, but Long is asked to stand in front of a camera and say «eye test» (sorry, «complete team») or «résumé» or «top 25 wins» or «strength of schedule» or «game control *.»

«Rather than IndyCar designating specific numbers for each category of testing, the onus is on teams to utilize days as they feel is best for their individual program.»

Joint - specific testing (much more thorough than general screen but significantly more time consuming; perform only if athlete has symptoms of current injury or history of previous injury, weakness or instability)

«Nonethless, if any additional, prospective studies confirm our finding that dizziness may indicate protracted recovery,» said Lau, «clinicians should consider using separate, specific dizziness tests for dizziness» such as the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), «rather than relying on postural / balance tests [such as the BESS] as indicators of dizziness.»

Using a variety of complementary and alternative healing modalities and unique diagnostic testing allows us to devise a therapeutic program that is individually tailored to your child's specific needs, rather than the one - size - fits - all approach that is commonly used in conventional medicine.

Hunts would be eligible to register if they could show that hunting was undertaken for purposes specific to pest control (the utility test), and that it would cause less suffering than any alternative method of pest control (the cruelty test).

The study examined test results for more than 33,000 students in grades 4 through 12 and found that student performance varied across testing formats by grade band, students» primary language, and the specific features of the computer - based system used.

The team used the results of a genetic test to design specific diets for 100 obese people that also provided them with 600 fewer calories than usual.

Further tests show that the materials are, in fact, supercapacitors, with specific capacitances of 367 Farads / gram, which are over three times higher than values seen in some graphene supercapacitors.

Instead of systematically testing the effects of known compounds — the pharmaceutical industry's basic model for more than a century — scientists can now investigate backward, combing through genomic data to find links between specific genotypes and diseases and then screening drug data to identify therapeutic candidates.

This means that the HPV test is less specific than the smear test — producing warnings for women who are in good health.

The test incorporates three specific markers that could indicate cancer and studies have shown that the combination is far more accurate than PSA alone.

Conventional genetic screening looks for specific mutated sequences of DNA, but the Dutch test simply searches for proteins which are shorter than those produced by healthy genes.

An related accompanying editorial in the same issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases notes that other organizations such as the American College of Gastroenterology have provided additional specific criteria for diagnostic testing for acute diarrhea, such as individuals with moderate - to - severe symptoms or illness lasting more than 7 days.

If you could obtain a high - resolution map of all possible combinations of reaction conditions and their corresponding outcomes, the development of such reactions for specific purposes like diagnostic tests would be quicker than it is today,» explains Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) researcher Yannick Rondelez at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS).

Rather than ordinary spot - testing approaches, which look for unnatural ratios between biological constituents in a single sample or for direct chemical evidence of known doping agents, the passport allows investigators to see the big picture — any deviations from the rider's test - established norm that might result from doping, even if the specific drug or tactic remains unknown.

The study sets the stage for the development of more - sensitive and specific non-invasive tests for prostate cancer than those currently available, which could result in fewer unnecessary prostate biopsies with less treatment - related morbidity, according to a new study in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.

Rather than testing them with crude mixtures of lots of proteins found in nuts, Schneider's component tests isolate specific proteins and then challenge the patient with those.

That means that the more likely application of genetic testing in testicular cancer is in diagnosing the level of risk in men yet to develop it, rather than in matching patients to specific treatments.

The test can also detect specific strains of viruses, making it more attractive than existing tests.

Inclusion Criteria: • Availability of tumor tissue for mesothelin expression testing • Histologically - confirmed, mesothelin - expressing metastatic or advanced non-metastatic disease (tumour type specific inclusion criteria) • At least one measurable lesion according to either Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 or International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group (ITMIG) modified RECIST 1.1 as applicable • Adequate bone marrow, liver, renal and coagulation function • Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥ 50 % of the lower limit of normal (LLN) according to local institutional ranges • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) 0 or 1 Exclusion Criteria: • More than one prior anti - tubulin / microtubule agent • Corneal epitheliopathy or any eye disorder that may predispose the patients to this condition • Symptomatic Central nervous system (CNS) metastases and / or carcinomatous meningitis • Contraindication to both CT and MRI contrast agents • Active hepatitis B or C infection • Pregnant or breast - feeding patients • Tumor type specific exclusion criteria

Those who answered yes to both questions were significantly more likely to demonstrate an impairment in episodic memory (the memory of specific event) on follow up testing eight years later than those who did not express a concern about their memory.

However, with few exceptions, the stem cell and regenerative medicine industry has remained inadequately capitalized to carry out large - scale clinical trials independently, and major pharmaceutical firms have tended to show more interest in the use of hiPSCs as a source of large, pure populations of specific somatic cells for use in drug compound screening and toxicology tests, than they have in therapeutic uses of stem cells and their derivatives.

Plus, we're always finding out more about specific ingredients — peer - reviewed studies testing ingredients and the way they interact with one another are being done more often than ever before.

This measures the B12 stored in tissues, which makes it more specific to B12 deficiency than the other blood tests

I believe that how I used the helpful tools Parsley provided (such as the latest tests, supplements, and nutrition plans, and supportive relationships with my doctor and health coach) was more important than the specific tools themselves.

If someone can exhibit the necessary movement pattern (done by testing specific ankle mobility or thoracic extension tests, rather than saying «since they can't do overhead squat, it MUST be their ankles»...).

The foundation recommends replacing the laws with ones that rely on specially trained police officers to determine if a driver is impaired, backed up by a test for the presence of THC rather than a specific threshold.

Only a few dating sites have a personality test that have more than bells and whistles, but none of them caters to a specific group of people.

The first to examine the effects of financial incentives among urban public school students, it found that rewards can produce excellent results in closing the achievement gap — if they are tied to specific steps the students take rather than to grades or test results.

Since the Massachusetts test is relatively challenging (well aligned with the NAEP2), students» performance is likely related to these complex skills, rather than to familiarity with specific words.

1) Uniform national standards and tests of student performance against those standards gather broader public backing than do the specific sets of standards and tests known as the Common Core.

Students who participate in integrated - studies classrooms are more engaged in learning and achieve test scores that are equivalent to, or better than, students in traditional, subject - specific classrooms (Vars and Beane, 2000).

Finally I have included a set of spelling tests which are based on specific phonemes, rather than the traditional topics.

Not only have newspapers alleged cheating at a few specific schools in the District of Columbia during Michelle Rhee's tenure as Chancellor of Schools for the District of Columbia, but Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U. S. Department of Education, claims that the results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a test where cheating is improbable, reveal her to have been no more effective than her predecessors.

In Kentucky and Maryland, where the high - stakes tests are based on vague general skills more than on specific curriculum content, the protests seem mild by contrast.

To undo the problems created by test - based accountability, teachers must refocus instruction on teaching the underlying knowledge and skills that any good test should reflect, rather than spending time preparing kids for the specific test used for accountability.

Beginning in the 2010 - 2011 school year, for each school identified for preliminary registration review pursuant to subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph, the local school district shall be given the opportunity to present to the commissioner additional assessment data, which may include, but need not be limited to, valid and reliable measures of: the performance of students in grades other than those in which the State tests are administered; the performance of limited English proficient students and / or other students with special needs; and the progress that specific grades have made or that cohorts of students in the school have made towards demonstrating higher student performance.

The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit institutional variation that does not exist within countries; draw on much larger variation than usually available within any country; reveal whether any result is country - specific or more general; test whether effects are systematically heterogeneous in different settings; circumvent selection issues that plague within - country identification by using system - level aggregated measures; and uncover general - equilibrium effects that often elude studies in a single country.

Aptitude tests measure general knowledge rather than knowledge in a specific subject.

[4] In other words, over 90 percent of those in recent age cohorts are not performing at a reasonably high level on any externally administered, subject - specific examination, a possible explanation for the much lower percentage of US students than students in many other advanced industrial societies who are performing at the «advanced» level on international tests.

If they have nothing to say to any of us about understanding what it means to be fully human and more fully ourselves, if they have nothing to tell us about the human experience as it has unspooled throughout human history, if they have nothing to say about the power of language to communicate across the gaps that separate us, if they have nothing to say about culture, if they have nothing to say about the rich heritage of the English language, if they have nothing to say about understanding the universal and the specific in human life, about how to grow beyond our own immediate experience — if they are, in fact, nothing more than fodder for test prep, then what the hell are we doing?

The specific focus on mathematics meant the work was relevant to all... This elementary school showed a substantially greater increase in standardized test scores than other district schools over the period of their school - wide lesson study in mathematics.

The links provided by CSDE are billed as «nonscientific» and include SBAC - developed surveys: the Administrative Survey is really a Smarter Balanced Proctor Survey Report completed by an unreported number of district administrators; the Smarter Balanced Field Test Student Survey was provided by the testing company and had 1800 respondents (less than one - percent of students who took the test in CT); and the Superintendent's Survey was specific to the Smarter Balanced Testing Calendar and from the 79 respondents listed (out of a possible 169 school districts) it is easy to understand why this information provided by the CSDE should be viewed with cautTest Student Survey was provided by the testing company and had 1800 respondents (less than one - percent of students who took the test in CT); and the Superintendent's Survey was specific to the Smarter Balanced Testing Calendar and from the 79 respondents listed (out of a possible 169 school districts) it is easy to understand why this information provided by the CSDE should be viewed with ctesting company and had 1800 respondents (less than one - percent of students who took the test in CT); and the Superintendent's Survey was specific to the Smarter Balanced Testing Calendar and from the 79 respondents listed (out of a possible 169 school districts) it is easy to understand why this information provided by the CSDE should be viewed with cauttest in CT); and the Superintendent's Survey was specific to the Smarter Balanced Testing Calendar and from the 79 respondents listed (out of a possible 169 school districts) it is easy to understand why this information provided by the CSDE should be viewed with cTesting Calendar and from the 79 respondents listed (out of a possible 169 school districts) it is easy to understand why this information provided by the CSDE should be viewed with caution.

On the Praxis II — a series of commonly used licensure tests that are subject - specific — African American test takers are much less likely than white test takers to pass the tests the first time; per Table 3, this finding holds true across various subject and grade level Praxis II tests.83