In addition to other possible uses, Patwari wants to conduct research with doctors to test his method as an infant-breathing monitor, and, if it proves useful, develop it as a medical device that would need federal approval.
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But Texas offered a great opportunity to test a new method of cost cutting.
In 2003, a handful of British police teams began to test a new method.
Patsalis of the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics said his team is developing a noninvasive method to test for Down syndrome by comparing fetal DNA to the mother's using standard lab equipment, instead of pricey gene-sequencing gear.
Conveniently, more modern spacecraft than the Pioneers include separate range-finding hardware, which can be used to test the accuracy of the Doppler method.
The "poke test" a method used by some professional chefs as well as backyard cookers is one way to check for doneness.
Student test scores are becoming a more popular method of judging teachers, especially since the Obama administration began tying some federal funding to the approach.
However, researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands devised a clever method for putting this assumption to the test.
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So far Dr Ausubel and his colleagues have managed to test around 37, 000 compounds using their new method, and they have found 28 that have antibiotic properties.
The method is being employed at a small test facility, where waste water is piped through a complex maze of equipment, including a membrane that removes the nasty stuff.
The more traditional method of measuring hearing loss, the distraction test, requires a baby to sit upright on the mother's lap, responding to sound without seeing the source, and therefore cannot be done before 8 months.
Another 20% would also consider test scores but would be measured differently using a union-backed method.
There is also a method that's not widespread called the atopy patch test, which involves wearing a pad containing the possible allergen for about 48 hours.
"I'm not aware of any test for that drug that has been evaluated by the traditional scientific method, " says Charles Yesalis, a professor of epidemiology at Pennsylvania State University.
In accordance with Casio's own standard with reference to the US MIL-STD-810F Method 516.5-Shock, the camera passed a test in which it was dropped from a height of 2.13 meters (7 feet) onto lauan plywood at 26 different angles.
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Delaney, who admits that he "still has to concentrate" when parallel parking uses the method below and credits it with getting his daughter through her driving test when she was 18.
Although this method is considered the gold standard for estimating sodium intake, that lone urine test may not provide an accurate snapshot of the participants' everyday intake over the full eight-year study, as the researchers themselves note.
The other very important cause of irregular bleeding is pregnancy, and if a different method of contraception is not being used it is also essential to do a pregnancy test.
Dirks showed that some of the immature-looking cells from his patients could form tumorlike clumps in the test tube, unlike most other cells from the tumors, but he didn't have a method to pluck out the stem cells.
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