Sentences with phrase «using old tests»

States are concerned about whether the new tests that are being designed are valid, about whether schools are prepared for the speed with which the CCSS are to be implemented, and about whether it makes sense for students to be taught using the new standards and to be tested using old tests as we wait for the new tests to become available.

As expected, proficiency levels dropped sharply from the previous year, when the state used an older test based on earlier standards.

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The filing also argues that the 9th Circuit made the test for defeating a trademark too strict, and that it should — based on an older decision by a different appeals court — instead have simply looked at how most people use the word in question.

To date Amarillo has tested 5 of the 19 known old workings at Lavras do Sul and 4 of these have returned significant gold values, including the Butia prospect 215,000 ounces of gold Indicated from 6.4 MT at 1.05 g / t Au, and 308,000 ounces of gold Inferred from 12.9 MT at 0.74 g / t Au using a 0.30 g / t cut - off grade.

Completing ed enrollment of its Phase 3 Resolve trial, which is testing its RSV F Vaccine use in adults age 60 and older.

So it seems to me that for those of us who call ourselves Christians, but who also have used the brain that God gave us to conclude that the planet is more than 6000 years old and that the actions of Noah and his family saved all the then living things — that we can retain faith in a God who would not joke around with Abraham just to test him.

Couple that with the number of rules that everyone says you simply must follow (you must use day - old rice, you must use medium - grain, et cetera), and it seems like the perfect subject for some hardcore testing and myth - busting.

Of course the Salsa Verde is my old recipe and decide to use that instead of Test Kitchen's and made a few tweaks in cooking...

Note: For the «Old Original Version» of this recipe I use to add 1/2 cup of melted coconut oil for extra creaminess, but I have sense found in my test kitchen that adding a little booze makes creamy ice cream!

To give a true test, I decided to remake a couple of old favorite recipes using Light Tasting and Pure, and to make a new recipe for you using 100 % Extra Virgin.

Do the oldest test of using your elbow to test the water and not your hand.

Test antique beds for lead paint before use and avoid bunk beds until your child is older.

We used disposable diapers on his older sister and decided to test reusable options through a cloth diaper trial when Ezra was eight months old.

This nail clipper is thoroughly tested to ensure that it is safe to be used on babies as young as one - day - olds since some babies are born with long nails.

Karen, a mommy from New Jersey, tested this stroller with her 6 - year - old 46 pound daughter and while she had to use two hands to steer with the heavier weight, it handled fine.

It is wise to use something like a fertility test in the months after your baby reaches 6 months old until you establish a definite pattern of fertility.

School secretary Ed Balls stated that the government was promoting the use of the synthetic phonics method and accused the Conservatives of adopting old proposals by calling for external tests.

It would also restore the link between the state pension and earnings rather than prices to make it more generous, and reduce the use of means - testing through the pension credit, to encourage people to save for their old age.

While setting up a Democratic county party website is a good first step, «it is crucial to demystify the process more; they could use some testing to see how they are able to explain how this very old school county committee process works,» said Moore.

Using clever statistical tests called mediation analyses to look at these interactions, the researchers found that aerobically fitter older men can perform better mentally than less fit older men by using the more important brain regions when neUsing clever statistical tests called mediation analyses to look at these interactions, the researchers found that aerobically fitter older men can perform better mentally than less fit older men by using the more important brain regions when neusing the more important brain regions when needed.

This indicates that older adults who use the more youth - like, task - related side of the brain perform better in this test.

Zebrafish larvae a few days old are frequently used in toxicology tests — e.g. to study the behavioural effects of drugs — in order to avoid experiments in mammals.

Because a new study finds that 70 - year - olds did better on intelligence tests than 70 year olds used to do.

Amrita Cheema, PhD, one of the main investigators on Federoff's team, will give an in - depth lecture on the test's significance, the science behind it, and the research techniques used to develop it in the July 28 AACC session, «Lipidomics: A Powerful Approach to Identify Pre-clinical Memory Impairment in Older Adults.»

Meanwhile, Sangamo is testing a therapy that uses an older genome editing technique to disrupt CCR5 in patients» CD4 + T - cells so that HIV is locked out.

Well - known techniques that took place in Flint include preflushing water from taps the night before sampling and using small - mouthed bottles, which artificially lowers lead concentrations in samples, as well as failing to identify and test homes known to have sources of lead in their plumbing from lead services lines or older brass components that contain significant amounts of lead.

They used a blood test, the current screening tool used in hospitals, and BiliCam to test the babies when they were between two and five days old.

In the study, she and her colleagues found that 30 - and 33 - month - old toddlers were able to successfully demonstrate false - belief understanding using a modified version of a well - known test.

Stanford University and the researchers have filed for a patent on the microchip, and the researchers also are working to launch a startup company to help get the method approved by the FDA and bring it to market, both in the United States and in parts of the world where the old test is too expensive and difficult to use.

The old, slow test detected the auto - antibodies using radioactive materials, took several days, could only be performed by highly - trained lab staff and cost several hundred dollars per patient.

Using an ingenious method to increase the resolution of their microscope, Van Heumen and McLeod succeeded in testing a 60 - year old theory that explains the switch from metal to insulator.

Investigators (Fumitaka Sato, PhD, et al) tested resveratrol in autoimmune and viral models of MS.. In the autoimmune model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) was induced in 6 - week - old mice using myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) 35 - 55 peptide.

The authors say game design elements — such as points, levels, and badges — and financial incentives may have contributed to the sustained use of the devices, but the results provide valuable insights for wellness programs, insurance companies, and other program designers who should consider testing new and more targeted engagement strategies to motivate older and lower - income populations.

The 28 men and 45 women also took part in a standardized test, which is typically used to measure different patterns of brain function in older adults, focusing on attention, memory, fluency, language and visuospatial ability.

They tested their approach on older adults using a motion - analysis system that studied 39 joint regions.

Although the experiment used an older Ebola virus that differs from the strain now in West Africa, the researchers showed in a test - tube study that ZMapp also worked against the more recently isolated virus.

Second, some inmates are being condemned to death by inflated IQ scores obtained using older intelligence tests.

The AAIDD manual will include a section on the importance of considering measurement error, and will urge courts to correct IQ scores to account for the use of older tests.

In 2003 Mara Mather and her colleagues at the University of California at Santa Cruz found that older adults who performed well on memory tests used a process of comparing bits of memories that was different from the memory - recollection mechanisms used by younger men and women.

Tests performed in Helsinki in Finland, Vienna in Austria and Donostia - San Sebastian in Spain confirm that the service works as intended and helps older people to use public transport by guiding them all the way from the start to the end of their journeys.

A blood test used to measure patterns of ribonucleic acid (RNA) expression can help determine if fever in infants under 2 months old is caused by bacterial or viral infection, according to a preliminary study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Older adults using this strategy tested almost as well as younger adults.

Behavioral testing for attention and impulsivity began when the rats were about 80 days old and continued six days a week for three months, using a well - accepted protocol.

To assess whether the decline was greater at older ages with the test for linear trend, we reran the analysis using the categories of age as a continuous variable.

For this project, conducted from 2005 to 2006, survey teams from the National Opinion Research Center used a standard, well - validated test to assess the ability of 3,005 older participants to identify five common odors.

Using hints from a 2,000 - year - old recipe for treating haemorrhoids, they isolated the herb's active ingredient, characterised it, tested it in humans and animals, and created synthetic versions.

Visions of the Future Someday soon, people may carry cards bearing their genome profiles; have genes sequenced at birth, at maturity, and in old age; and use genetic testing to understand and design treatments for medical conditions.

The limitations of inferring decision rule use from individuals» sampling behaviour; a computational test of old and new algorithms.

We used our best eliminase (the W229D / F290W variant of the alternative GNCA4 reconstruction at the GNCA node), to test whether the introduction of the new active site affects the catalysis at the «old» natural active site (catalytic residue S70, located at about 23 Å from position 229).

Greater running distance in the 2 - to 3 - month - old mice may partially explain these data, but the solo - housed wild - type mice used to test solo - versus group - housing (Fig. 5) ran similar distances as the young mice, yet did not show any increase in brain progranulin levels.