Sentences with phrase «than tests of»

It is more highly related to reading than tests of general intelligence, reading readiness, and listening comprehension.

Murasaki Baby feels like a game designed to be played and absorbed rather than a test of will for your brain or reflexes to overcome.

Though Tearaway Unfolded delivers multiple enemy types, these encounters feel more like an annoying chore, rather than a test of your abilities.

Other than a test of your memorization skills, controlling your destiny is no harder than the click of a mouse... and some heavy petting of your keyboard.

Just as Judge Boswell correctly demanded a court cite for the ADA's assertion that Wilson did have the «right» to pro se, she should have made the demand of Wilson if for no other reason than a test of Wilson's ability to handle a trial.

Not exact matches

So, rather than stretching and testing new channels, your goal should be to take the ambiguity and risk out of marketing.

The PGS platform promised genetic risk reports for more than 250 disease at the time — but, after the FDA smackdown, 23andMe was forced to stop marketing the service and pursue a piecemeal strategy of winning regulatory approval of individual tests.

The New York Times reported yesterday that, in October of last year, Uber altered its testing program by putting only one safety monitor in each autonomous car rather than two, over the safety concerns of some employees.

But I felt calmer than expected, and I realized at the end of the test that I had actually been holding my cadaver's hand, which was somewhat horrifying but strangely comforting.

The list is composed of the top 12 foods — including spinach, strawberries and tomatoes — that «tested positive for a number of different pesticide residues and contained higher concentrations of pesticides than other produce,» according to the EWC.

Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

TalentSmart has tested the emotional intelligence (EQ) of more than a million people and discovered that social awareness is a skill in which many of us are lacking.

We've fired it for 100 seconds — it could fire much longer than 100 seconds, that's just the size of the test tanks.

Case and point: McDonald's announced it's expanding its fresh beef to 75 locations in Northeast Oklahoma, effectively growing the market test by more than a factor of six, Business Insider reports.

MONTREAL — Bombardier Aerospace has delayed delivery of its first new CSeries commercial aircraft by several months and potentially more than a year, saying it needs more time for testing and preparation.

Because ordinary lab equipment requires more blood than that, the accuracy of Theranos» blood test results were called into question.

The company has received approval for one test and is certified to operate lab testing facilities, but the FDA's assessment of the company's other tests — more than 240 are listed on Theranos» website and they say they've submitted over 130 for approval so far — is still pending.

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.

In an editorial about Theranos in the journal Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine earlier this year, Eleftherios P. Diamandis, the head of clinical biochemistry at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, argued that fingerprick tests are not necessarily any more painful than needle draws — though there still might be an appeal for someone afraid of needles.

In the tests, they burst through the surface, ejecting pillars of seawater more than a mile high while rippling out powerful shockwaves.

The recent FDA approval for its herpes test was the first public sign the company is making headway on this goal, though the company and the FDA declined to comment to the WSJ on the status of the more than 130 other tests it has submitted to the agency.

«We can perform hundreds of tests, from standard to sophisticated, from a pinprick and tiny sample of blood, and we have performed more than 70 tests from a single tiny sample,» a representative for the company told Tech Insider in April.

But if you want a routine that is road tested by one of the most dynamic and successful entrepreneurs around, you can do no better than follow in the footsteps of Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson.

Theranos already offers tests at prices cheaper than what Quest and LabCorp charge — and a fraction of what hospitals charge.

Microsoft and the China University of Technology and Science taught a computer network how to take an IQ test, and it scored better than a college postgraduate.

TalentSmart has tested more than a million people and found that the upper echelons of top performance are filled with people who are high in emotional intelligence (90 % of top performers, to be exact).

These studies make up more than 10 % of GSK's worldwide clinical - testing operations.

«In order to move autonomous driving toward reality, testing requires more cars, more drivers, and more day - to - day miles traveled than any combination of research facilities could support.»

Emissions Analytics, a U.K. - based consulting company, says it has tested the real - world emissions of more than 400 diesel cars.

Home sales across the country have dropped in the wake of several government policy measures, including a stress test for home buyers with a down payment of more than 20 per cent, that were implemented to cool the country's hot housing market.

U.S. teens scored a mean 492 on the OECD test, eight points below the overall global mean of 500 — and more than 100 points below first - ranked Shanghai - China's 603.

As of Jan. 1, home buyers with a down payment larger than 20 per cent seeking a mortgage from a federally regulated lender are now subject to a financial stress test.

But companies are now using psychometric tests in more management areas and on a wider range of job types than ever.

More than half of the U.S. teens tested have a bank account, and 69 percent reported earning money from work.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

Holmes and Theranos made waves in Silicon Valley and the diagnostics industry two years ago, when investors lined up to boost the valuation of a company that claimed it would soon offer more than 1,000 varieties of blood diagnostics tests without the need for a syringe.

Rather than asking prospective clients to take the tests, he relies on the overt trappings of the personality factors: speech patterns, office decor, style of dress.

In 2011, after government researchers conducted a series of those tests, the European Commission found that diesel cars were spewing as much as seven times more NOx on actual roads than they were in the lab.

A lot of times that's easier said than done and what that really means is just a whole lot of user testing,» he says.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has accused Fiat of using «hidden software» that appeared to make some of its vehicles perform differently in testing than on - road use, according to a Reuters report.

Have three people test your site to make sure you don't lose more than half of the sales that are attempted.

Then they tested the product in homes, where more than 80 percent of dementia patients live.

Dr. Travis Bradberry is the award - winning co-author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0, and the cofounder of TalentSmart, the world's leading provider of emotional intelligence tests, emotional intelligence training, and emotional intelligence certification, serving more than 75 % of Fortune 500 companies.

In other sessions, he explains the results of our Bod Pod tests, suggesting that a balanced approach to eating and exercise that will reduce body fat percentages much more effectively than «running a marathon and eating anything you like.»

In a similar fashion, the Body Shop got skewered when a magazine article questioned its claims about animal testing, alleged that the company used petrochemicals in some of its «natural» products, and charged that its Trade Not Aid program accounted for less of its supplies than it had claimed.

Although they are much less powerful than the industrial models from Universal Robots, IOActive released a video of a test in which an otherwise cute NAO robot suddenly begins laughing in an evil and maniacal way and uses a screwdriver to repeatedly stab a tomato.

Test - takers no longer will lose points for wrong answers, a feature meant to discourage guessing but that produced agonized complaints that the exam was more an exercise in strategy than a measure of college - readiness.

The trial was one of three scheduled for the first half of this year over claims that Volkswagen deceived customers with the deliberate rigging of emissions controls to perform differently when being tested than they do on the road.

Uber is testing many of its cars in Pittsburgh, which has much more challenging climate and geography than Phoenix.

Local explorer Northern Minerals plans to build a test pilot plant at its Browns Range project near Halls Creek at a cost of about $ US18 million ($ A25 million), rather than proceeding with full - scale development in light of the depressed rare earths market.