Sentences with phrase «validity testing of»

Until recently, initial predictive validity testing of the Braden Q Scale only included immobility - related pressure injuries in critically ill pediatric patients aged two weeks to eight years.

Personality correlates of the hypercompetitive attitude scale: Validity tests of Horney's theory of neurosis.

Not exact matches

That model formed the basis of the Myers - Briggs test, which has no scientific basis and has been shown to have poor validity and reliability, among a host of other criticisms.

It's only natural that companies turn to psychological assessment tests in the hopes of improving the accuracy and validity of their recruitment processes.

Since October, when The Wall Street Journal ran a story questioning the validity of its blood tests, healthcare startup Theranos has promised that an independent analysis of its testing services would be forthcoming.

Another big case examines the patentability of diagnostic testing, and a third case in the pipeline could rethink the standard the Court set in 1983 to test the obviousness of what is patentable — a case that could call into question the validity of hundreds of thousands of existing patents.

«If you go out on the Net and look at the hundreds of tests out there, a very small percentage have validity data,» says Seymour Adler, a senior vice president at Aon Consulting and a teacher of organizational psychology at New York University.

The validity of both of these approaches can be tested and is robust under testing - and they produce results that agree.

Hence the purpose of a new quest of the historical Jesus would be to test the validity of the kerygma's identification of its understanding of existence with Jesus» existence.

However, recent scientific advances in the realm of the quantum world have shown that there comes a point when objective testing and validity is no longer possible.

And rigorous historic testing of the NT has shown that only 5 - 30 % of the NT has historic validity.

It is also not to test the validity of the feelings of minorities in America.

All the theists, who work for Walmart but like to post on the Inter-webs, will now call into question the validity of radio carbon testing.

Such arguments as «the Church teaches --» were destined to become less and less sufficient to win immediate acceptance for the ideas they prefaced The validity of traditions was questioned; general beliefs about physical phenomena were subjected to various tests.

The only true way to the test the validity of an experiment is to have re-done over and over again, and then evaluate the data.

The majority incline to believe that they are purposely given as a trial in order to test the strength and validity of man's faith.

This «test» of «validity» would seem to broaden the notion of «proof» beyond its restriction to syllogism and experimental verification.

Drucker stressed that executives who think that businesses exist solely to make a profit have put the cart before the horse: «Profit is not the explanation, cause or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.»

No intelligent and open - minded reader of the Gospels can fail to see these grounds once they are called to his attention, and their validity can be quickly tested and demonstrated without the necessary help of any esoteric or technical learning.

The «satan» in a Hebrew court of law was, like the prosecutor: accuser, adversary, serving the function of testing and trying validity & integrity.

The effect of all this is to throw into relief the results, and especially the theological results, of the work done on the basis of a given hypothesis of gospel interrelationships as the only effective test of the validity of that hypothesis.

Indeed, it is striking that the same critical tests which, when applied to the birth stories, reveal so large an element of legend, have the effect, rather, of establishing the validity of the Gospel record when they are applied to the main body of the tradition, the Synoptic account of Jesus» public career.

Finally, I believe that these kinds of experiments can also test the validity of the present cosmological theory and of process cosmology in general.

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

Such a way of testing the validity of many propositions is unquestionably appropriate.

With reason also comes a greater degree of self - consciousness about the procedures used to arrive at and test the validity of statements concerning religion, morality, and nature.

One criterion of the integrity of evangelical political leaders should be a willingness regularly to test the biblical validity of their views with other biblically committed Christian leaders.

You might not be aware, but the educational system teaches kids to think for themselves, ask questions, scrutinize the validity of an explanation or an authority figure, and use inductive and deductive reasoning as a part of a process to ask questions, analyze and test a hypothesis.

Test samples, along with a discussion of their rationale and validity, may be obtained from Sandra Bern at Stanford University.

Regardless of the origin of an idea, the idea can be tested for validity.

In a famous essay of his he distinguishes between the naïve poet, who is characterized by spontaneity, immediacy and absence of self - consciousness, and the sentimental poet, who subjects his feelings to the scrutiny of the intellect, tests their validity by reference to some external criterion.

In addition, if there is a question as to validity of the data or tests, then anyone is free to retest again to verify the results.

... and just because there may be no way to test a supernatural claim — doesn't give that claim an ounce of validity.

Then (2) in face of the varieties of Christian proclamation and in view of the claim inherent in the nature of the synoptic gospel material (earthly Jesus = risen Lord), we may and we must use such historical knowledge of Jesus as we possess to test the validity of the claim of any given form of the Church's proclamation to be Christian proclamation.

We delved into the origins of FODMAP Friendly Certification, our worldwide reach, the validity of breath testing, heard from leading expert Atlanta of FODMAP Dietetics and much more.

There has been precious little evaluation of this test regarding who administers the test, reliability, and validity.

Reliability and validity of a computerized neurocognitive test battery, CNS Vital Signs.

Secondly, quantitative psychometric methods were used to field test and evaluate the acceptability, reliability and validity of this questionnaire.

We pilot tested scale validity in English - speaking (n = 90) and Spanish - speaking (n = 45) low - income mothers (median age of infant: 6 wk) by presenting the faces as 6 individual unlabeled cards and asking the women to place the cards in order from no pain to maximum pain.

This would not only open up the possibility of fraudulent imitations, it would also cause chaos for the payment industry, who look for small, token payments as a sign that criminals are «testing» the validity of stolen card details.

The charity said this was «particularly concerning» as most of these experiments studied human diseases which do not exist in non-human primates, such as Parkinson's Disease, and this they suggested «significantly challenges» the validity of the tests.

The Board of Regents» new leaders launched an inquiry Monday into the validity of the state test system and its links to teacher evaluations, citing the need to rebuild public trust following a second annual round of massive exam boycotts on Long Island and across the state.

Kathy Mecca, president of the Niagara Gateway Columbus Park Association, said that rather than conducting more tests, the DEC and other state officials should acknowledge the validity of independent local research.

The Board of Regents is launching an investigation into the validity of a testing system that is linked to teacher evaluations, citing the need to rebuild public trust following yet another opt out wave of state testing in schools.

Wilson's campaign cited a 1971 case, Posner v. Levitt, in which the state Supreme Court, Appellate Division Third Department ruled that «The Comptroller may have standing to test the validity of the budget, but he is not obliged to do so.»

And she said she and other education leaders need to convince parents and teachers who have doubts about the validity of the tests.

A pilot study was done in Konongo, a mining community in Ashanti Region to test the applicability and validity of the research in January, 2013.

«To that extent, the decision of the Ekiti state government to ban Dr Kayode Fayemi from politics can not stand the test of constitutional validity.

That's why teams in several countries, including Mozambique, have spent the past few years testing both the scientific validity and cultural acceptability of MIAs — with an eye toward expanding them across the globe.

the epistemology of physics: Epistemology is the study of the nature, source, limits, and validity of knowledge, and for physics that means how physics devises and tests its theories concerning physical phenomena;