Sentences with phrase «up to the test for»

But as the company gears up to test for signs of efficacy, Basil Darras, Vivienne's doctor at Boston Children's Hospital, expects to see the most pronounced effects in the youngest cohorts.

Several parts are mocked up to test for proper fitment.

For PS4, we have been able to take advantage of the power and memory bandwidth of the console to rework all textures in the game, to ensure they stood up to the test for 4K displays.

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Your existing customers have already signed up for your email list, added their credit card information to your website and tested what you have to offer.

THE Bank of Queensland will use Western Australia as a testing ground for a return to the use of mortgage brokers and a new branch model in an attempt to firm up its bottom line.

For $ 999 per year up front or $ 99 monthly, customers will use a kit sent by the company each quarter to take blood, urine, stool, and saliva samples, and then send them back for testiFor $ 999 per year up front or $ 99 monthly, customers will use a kit sent by the company each quarter to take blood, urine, stool, and saliva samples, and then send them back for testifor testing.

Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

«I was extremely lucky,» says Curin, whose wake - up call prompted him to start a campaign, The Heart to Sole: Creating a Stress - Free America, to lobby for stress - testing at all companies and to support the American Heart Association's My Heart.

That decision was certainly the right one for me and my opportunities in business at the time and, looking back now, I would have to say it worked out pretty well for us and also the driver that wound up getting that rookie test.

The sports - apparel maker Under Armour, for example, uses Qualtrics to power a field - testing portal where fans of the brand sign up to try out products.

Facebook is reportedly planning to test a news service with a paywall that would direct users of the social network's Instant Articles feature to sign up for digital news subscriptions after reaching a threshold of monthly articles.

One important change to the salary basis test: employers (for the first time) may use non-discretionary bonuses and incentive payments (including commissions) to satisfy up to 10 percent of the substantially - higher minimum salary.

Not only is it true that «a full 20 percent of CEOs on Inc. magazine's 500 fastest - growing private companies list indicated that they continued to work a paying job long after founding their organization,» Raffiee explains in a write - up of the research, but many of our entrepreneurial icons actually waded into starting up slowly, keeping a corporate job for quite awhile while they tested the waters.

Facebook is stepping up its efforts to compete with Twitch and YouTube for video game streaming: The company is now offering select video gamers a chance to monetize their gameplay live streams on Facebook by giving their audience a way to tip them as part of a test of new monetization options.

Yeo explained that you need to prepare someone's finger for this process to make sure blood is flowing, but if you end up squeezing the finger too hard or have to prick it too many times, that may damage and break down cells — and this cellular damage could skew various test results.

• Ambow Education Holding, which provides test prep in China, filed for an IPO of up to $ 5 million Monday.

Nick and Jill moved into a cottage in the redwood forest near Pescadero, where Nick set about working 16 - hour days at the computer and the sewing machine, testing new fabrics for the next - generation product, designing marketing materials, writing patent applications, and starting to build up a network of retailers.

Phil Soper, chief executive of real estate company Royal LePage, said the new stress test for uninsured mortgages introduced by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions has «interrupted» the flow of move - up home buyers looking to upgrade from their entry level home or move to a more desirable location.

As Theranos continues to spiral downward, its investors are now claiming the company threatened to file for bankruptcy protection if they don't give up their rights to sue the startup over its faulty blood - testing business, Bloomberg reported.

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.

For the next series of tests, the researchers added a twist: they had the subjects come up with a novel association between the words — say, throw in response to hammer.

Keegan convinced McLaren to sign up for BillGuard's free account, which monitors up to three cards, and to register his personal card to test the service.

The nonprofit organization behind the SAT college entrance exam has teamed up with a Silicon Valley pioneer in online education to make test preparation materials available for free starting Tuesday, a move aimed at making the college admissions race less stressful and more fair.

Rosen, who has used the essay - test method for four years, came up with the technique because she was struggling to identify people who were a good fit for her company, which produces crafts fairs and publishes two magazines.

The CS100, which is expected to make its maiden test flight this fall, burns up to 15 % less fuel, and is also far quieter than a traditional jet engine — a perfect fit for Porter's business model, and its home airport.

The mock - ups are being tested for their ability to repel attempts to climb over, smash through or tunnel underneath.

We offer a space for developers and entrepreneurs to attend and organize events with speakers, mentors and other entrepreneurs; a «hack space» and device library to develop and test new ideas; and Google Launchpad, a two - week boot camp for early stage start - ups helping with subjects including user interface, product strategy & technology, marketing, business development and more.»

The diagnostics, coming up with a theory as to what's going on, or what a good subsequent test would be — those are the things that look very promising for automation.

Fans are paying almost $ 100 for the fight and they don't want any interruptions of their service or any snags in the transaction, so NeuLion has been testing the process in the days leading up to the event to ensure it will run smoothly on fight night.

Cameron Bancroft, the player caught who was caught trying to rough up the ball with some yellow tape on the field during the Third Test against South Africa in Cape Town last weekend, has been banned for nine months.

How to set up a special needs trust, which allows people to fund care for disabled loved ones without endangering means - tested benefits.

Transmitted through both soil and water, F. oxysporum can lay dormant in the soil for up to 30 years, and it's virtually impossible for growers to know their crops have it without rigorous testing (which doesn't exist).

Companies like Quest Diagnostics (DGX), for instance, reportedly tests millions of urine samples every year and, along with other firms, is ramping up a lobbying push to block marijuana reform.

«We're pretty close to sending crew up to the Space Station - that's currently scheduled for the end of next year,» he said, referencing the upcoming Dragon 2 vehicle that SpaceX is testing.

As we got our test drive started, Jamie took the wheel first and offered up a quick primer on the Chiron's controls and what to look out for when I got into the hot seat.

Another test to measure confidence involves standing up in front of a panel of VonChurch employees and speaking for two minutes on a subject an applicant is passionate about, and one that also demonstrates he or she has technical knowledge.

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

Wednesday's long - awaited announcement that they are entering the tablet game with their $ 199 Amazon Kindle Fire was an appropriate follow - up to news from earlier in the month that the world's largest Internet store (with revenue of $ 34 billion in 2010) was testing a major redesign of their website, in short optimizing the shopping experience for tablet devices.

For instance, couldn't a test that asks people to match pictures of faces with words for emotions end up measuring people's verbal knowledge rather than their level of empatFor instance, couldn't a test that asks people to match pictures of faces with words for emotions end up measuring people's verbal knowledge rather than their level of empatfor emotions end up measuring people's verbal knowledge rather than their level of empathy?

After prototyping a moisture - wicking, formfitting alternative — made of fabric for women's undergarments — and testing it on ex-teammates, Plank set up shop in his grandmother's basement and, just before he went broke, scored his first big sale, to Georgia Tech.

For example, if you type in «migraines» or «food allergies» into the search box, now a white box will come up in the top right hand corner of the screen with a description of the ailment, with links to causes, symptoms, tests, treatments, prognosis, prevention and the National Library of Medicine.

For now, companies are testing whether the flying devices are up to the job.

Small businesses struggling to keep customers and entice new ones can test out new call center technology or sign up for social media sites or even implement customer relationship management (CRM) software, but there's no substitution for treating customers well.

These people should test and push, so CEOs are forced to question the decisions that they're making and plan for the inevitable ups and downs that building a company will bring.

«We ran a lot of different tests, from putting up a splash page to see what people were willing to pay for different feature sets.

And while I regularly test new things, it's easy to get caught up in a routine instead of stopping for a moment and trying something new.

The balls made here — not to mention their raw materials — are put through every kind of test, from a machine that looks like an arcade claw game that makes sure each ball conforms to regulation, to a so - called «spinach test» in which balls are dumped in a vat of water and fresh spinach and spun around for up to two days to test grass stain prevention.

Phase III funding, the round where ideas are validated with up to $ 10 million in funding, is the very center of the valley of death, because it's the biggest test for early - stage companies.

It's going to cost her $ 3,200 to get a lab to test for all the acids, detergents and poisons that companies say they use for fracking — or hydraulic fracturing — to break up underground shale and remove oil and natural gas.

It offers many of the same features that high - end security cameras have for less, and it was the easiest to use and set up of all the home security cameras we tested.