Sentences with phrase «useful tests for»

After just seven days, the group taking the quercetin supplement had a 13.2 % increase in endurance in addition to a 3.9 % increase in VO2max, a measure of the body's ability to use oxygen efficiently and one of the most useful tests for physical fitness.

Attempts to use a small number of biomarkers, whether analytes in blood, cerebrospinal fluid, or a handful of genetic loci, have not yielded diagnostically useful tests for CFS.

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

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

We propose that the touchscreen assay may be a useful test for exploring potential therapeutic effects on impaired cognitive function in this line.

Dr. Pepys, however, worries that CRP might be too «nonspecific» to be a useful test for heart disease risk.

Another useful test for measuring muscle endurance in the upper body is the push - up test.

What isn't widely known, is that the testing of AMH can also be a useful test for women with PCOS, particularly in those who are struggling with receiving a diagnosis.

However, urodynamics can be a useful test for animals that present with micturition disorders and these procedures are becoming more standardized in veterinary medicine.

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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.

For the first test, Affirm said it will allow merchants who use First Data's Clover terminals, one of its most advanced lines that lets merchants download useful apps, to issue installment loans.

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.

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

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.

The prospective design of the IFPS II, the large sample size, as well as the extensive information on infant and maternal dietary practices make it useful for studying exclusive breastfeeding practices and testing hypotheses in a prospective manner [27].

The Down's Syndrome Association also has useful information on screening, and the UK National Screening Committee has produced a booklet called Screening tests for you and your baby.

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..

House sparrows, about as widespread across the United States as artificial lighting itself, make a useful test species for a first - of - its - kind study of how night illumination might contribute to disease spread, said Meredith Kernbach,...

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

Instead, he plans to narrow the list of useful biomarkers, then develop antibody - based tests for clinical use.

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.

In the future, measuring substance P levels in the tear film might become a useful, noninvasive test for assessing the risk of peripheral neuropathy in patients with diabetes.

For now, Rashid's group has a list of candidate therapeutic drugs that they'll test in their new liver disease models, something that may still prove useful to patients.

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

He estimated from looking over bones from the site that many had probably died within the last half century, which means that they could still prove useful for DNA tests.

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.

More importantly, within the afflicted groups, both the mice and humans had similarly poor performance in the hidden target trials, making the Morris Maze Test a useful tool for comparing our two species, the researchers say.

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.

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.

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.

Anything that decreases the accuracy of stress testing in the long run could reduce the use of a highly useful and widespread tool for imaging the heart.