Sentences with phrase «used as a testing case»

The game was delayed due to weather, but the NFL was planning to use it as a test case for future scheduling.

During this time, homeless animals were often used as test cases for medical students and subjected to numerous exploratory procedures.

Xbox TV could also be used as a test case for scaling Xbox Live and Cloud TV services to a wider range of hardware, opening new possibilities for Windows 8 PCs, Surface and Windows Phone 8 devices.

In the 2007 analysis of the GISS dataset, Detroit Lakes was used as a test case.

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It helped an anti-immigrant group learn the best way to target its fearmongering ads, and then used those ads as a case study to test the effectiveness of a new ad format.

In cases when they do - such as with the work disincentive effects of means - tested tax credits used for the purchase of health insurance - it's better to hold off on those attacks or make them more nuanced.

Work with employees regularly to ensure things will run smooth in the case of an emergency, and have a loyal customer and vendor you can use as test subjects during those drills.

And it's using Morbi — along with six other budding scientist / entrepreneurs — as test cases for its method.

In 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada had created a sophisticated legal test on workplace anti — discrimination claims, but, as the Court acknowledged in Tawney Meiorin's case, this test had proven to be complicated and challenging to use.

Thus, using the vagueness of the past self as a test case, we can also see that there is a difference of «distinctness» in the way the datum self is given as opposed to other selves.43 Yet, literal participation of the one in the other is maintained, for Hartshorne, since the present self must at least literally participate in its own past self — otherwise, personal identity is problematic, and this threatens personalism with precisely the sort of solipsism Hartshorne indicated from the beginning.

Readers familiar with the American case law will recognize this as a version of the «endorsement test» our own courts use to evaluate the constitutionality of public nativity scenes.

I didn't say there was no inequality in the justice system, I said the media inflames when they use 1 case as a litmus test, especially when the system is stacked in favor of defendants.

Noting that «a majority of the Justices has at various times expressed their disapproval of the Lemon test» (Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy have also criticized Lemon, but voted not to hear this case), Scalia wrote that he would have used this case as a vehicle «to inter the Lemon test once for all.»

What does trouble me is BPI's use of a raw material which by its very nature is highly pathogenic, such that we all might be endangered in the case of human error (as when BPI's ammonia system stopped working for sixty seconds in 2009, leading to 26,000 + pounds of infected meat)(http://nyti.ms/56MIYK) or a new strain of E coli — not part of BPI's admirably advanced testing protocol — emerges (as one did in Germany last summer, killing 345 and sickening 3,700 +.)

And what about using their child as a test case?

A single, small, retrospective case - control study examined the use of newborn transient evoked otoacoustic emission hearing screening tests as a tool for identifying infants at subsequent risk of SIDS.343 Infants who subsequently died from SIDS did not fail their hearing tests but, compared with controls, showed a decreased signal - to - noise ratio score in the right ear only (at frequencies of 2000, 3000, and 4000 Hz).

The Atlantic columnist Andrew Sullivan used to argue just such a case, though the ascent of Barack Obama and the failings of the second Bush administration pushed him — as it pushes almost everyone — into realising that nonideology is itself an ideology, and that though it might be able to exist in the pure realms of philosophy, it fails utterly when tested in the field of practical politics.

DiNapoli has suggested his office should be used as a test - case for public campaign financing at the state level to get out from under the pay - to - play pension fund scandal of his predecessor.

The State Comptroller, Tom DiNapoli has already endorsed using the election for his office as a test case.

The budget also removed the requirement for individuals in correctional facilities to give written consent for HIV testing, encouraged high - risk populations to use condoms by prohibiting prosecutors from using them as evidence in prostitution cases, and made it legal to possess syringes obtained through a syringe access program.

Silver raised the possibility of using one statewide office, that of the state comptroller, as a test case for publicly financed campaigns as a compromise that Republicans in the Senate might support.

Before the introduction of the residency test, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) described the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offences Act (Laspo) as «targeting legal aid at the most serious cases which have sufficient priority to justify the use of public funds».

«He was envisioning how he would do things, and he was using Paterson as a test case.

The enzyme was tested in three different cell lineages: leukemia cells incapable of producing asparagine at normal levels (MOLT4); another line of leukemia cells, in this case capable of producing asparagine at normal levels (REH); and non-malignant cells, used as a control (HUVECs).

The other four candidates are tests that detect antigens to Ebola in blood and other fluids — in many cases, using the same strip format and analytical technique, called enzyme - linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), as over-the-counter pregnancy - test kits.

After chronicling the different shifts of decomposers on the mice, and seeing the same shifts operating on the humans, the researchers built a computer model using the mouse data to see whether the microbial composition could be used to predict times of death, using the humans as a test case.

The actors, in this case both men and women, were again portrayed as overweight and not overweight in the different videos that test subjects were told would be used to launch a new product to be sold online.

«More selective HIV screening is thought to miss more cases, but there have never been well - designed comparison studies on which targeting criteria are best,» he says, «so with this study, we hypothesized that by using very broad criteria and applying sufficient resources to test everyone who met those criteria, we could detect nearly as many cases as universal screening but still use many fewer tests.»

Improved diagnostic tests are on the horizon, but we need huge efforts to increase their accuracy, use them for active case finding in the community, and eventually make them available in low income countries so as to inform treatment decisions and preserve the efficacy of any new antibiotic drugs for TB,» says lead author of the Commission Professor Keertan Dheda, University of Cape Town.

«It is our belief that, in cases involving scientific evidence, the pre-trial phase should be used to sort out and define as many scientific issues as possible and to consider... the best means of resolving (for example, by further scientific tests) any matters that may be disputed.»

Yet, such information may be particularly relevant for bees and other pollinators, given their role in global food production; hence, we wished to determine whether Ca has, or could, affect pollen protein levels using S. canadensis as a test case.

Even if data showing superiority of Singleplex were accurate, the investigators say the 39 % «overstates the potential impact» of missed cases; clinicians use the test as only one indicator when making a Zika diagnosis, and if that's factored in, the missed cases drop to a maximum of 12 % even with the most discrepant tests.

Single - marker association testing was used to measure the association between SNPs and ME / CFS case / control status, as well as all symptoms surveyed in the SF - 36 and DSQ as well as symptom clusters.

Using the photo - sharing site Instagram as a test case, researchers demonstrate how two common recommendation algorithms amplify a network effect known as homophily in which similar or like - minded people cluster together.

In civil cases, such as a lawsuit for damages from a vehicle accident or from a medical problem, testing and analysis by a qualified forensic scientist may be used by either side to address the validity of the allegations in the suit.

His current research is focused on using malaria transmission in The Gambia as a test case to understand the factors that maintain transmission despite the overall decrease.

We tested a CAD phenotype inclusive of angina (SOFT; ncases = 10,801) as well as a stricter definition without angina (HARD; ncases = 6,482) and selected cases with the former phenotype to conduct a meta - analysis using the two most recent CAD GWAS.

Factors examined as potential confounders or effect modifiers included age (at breast cancer diagnosis for cases, at time of study enrollment for controls), age at first birth, number of children, birth of a son, history of breastfeeding, miscarriage, abortion, oral contraceptive use, smoking status, age at menarche and number of cell equivalents tested for detection of FMc.

When different studies use the same angular velocity for measurement, these can be compared to one another, so long as differences between the populations tested are acknowledged, and so long as the dynamometer used is the same in both cases, as differences have been observed between brands (Francis & Hoobler, 1987; Thompson et al. 1989; Gross et al. 1991).

Sites such as eHarmony and Chemistry.com, Finkel said, are the worst offenders because they specifically claim to use science — in this case, personality tests — to help daters find their mate.

And if the underlying measure of student achievement in these studies was standardized tests, as was surely the case in many of them, why are such tests acceptable as measures of teacher quality in studies that are meta - analyzed and used indirectly, but unacceptable when they are used directly to assess teacher quality in a structured research design?

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).

As it turned out, these were, in each case, standardized achievement tests (six schools used the Stanford Achievement Test 9; two used the Metropolitan Achievement Test 7; two used the California Achievement Test; two used the Northwest Evaluation Association Levels Test; and two used a district - normed teTest 9; two used the Metropolitan Achievement Test 7; two used the California Achievement Test; two used the Northwest Evaluation Association Levels Test; and two used a district - normed teTest 7; two used the California Achievement Test; two used the Northwest Evaluation Association Levels Test; and two used a district - normed teTest; two used the Northwest Evaluation Association Levels Test; and two used a district - normed teTest; and two used a district - normed testtest.)

In both cases, the standardized test is used as an excuse to perpetuate the «coverage of content» mentality that permeates education today.

In this case, the tester is well - trained in the test protocol, and has a detailed script to follow, including options and prompts that may be used as the testing situation warrants.

A major middle - school math curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards today goes live for all to download, use, and adapt for free, in what will serve as a major test case as to whether open curriculum resources can truly compete with traditional textbook publishers.

Yet, as often is the case, the issue of teacher evaluation, particularly the use of student testing data, is never quite as simple as we make it sound.

If fewer than 16 tests are available to apply to a teacher's score, however, which appears quite likely in many cases this year, districts will have to produce an alternative rating method, such as using the scores of other students in the school.

Protesters Turn Fierce Rhetoric on «Corporate» Reform As they kicked off four days of protests at the U.S. Department of Education, organizers of Occupy DOE 2.0 today used inflammatory — and, in one case, racially insulting — rhetoric to rally opposition against high - stakes testing, «corporate» education reform, and the «dismantling of public education.»