Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people's powers of attention.

Adam and Galinsky's experiment tested the effect of clothes on their wearers' attention.

After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.

At some point in all of our lives, we'll have our trust tested or violated.

Before starting their programme, students are expected to take a language test.

Bonn has now tested this idea by building small sleds and dragging heavy objects over sand.

Companies have been testing their vehicles in cities across the country.

Five years ago, when I taught art at a school in seattle, I used tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students.

For all the feelings readers attach to stories, literature is a numbers game, and the test of time is extremely difficult to pass.

Harvold, who has not passed his driving test, said, \I realized the bus was out of control when I was speaking to the students.\

I read for knowledge, and to make a's on my tests.

I was able to try new activities and test my ability.

If you're meeting with the professor to go over a paper or test, or to ask questions about a particular lecture or reading, make sure you bring that paper or test, or your lecture notes or a copy of the article.

In order to stay she's had to prove her language skills by taking a test which requires her to write a postcard to an imaginary friend.

Indeed, they made only half as many errors as those wearing their own clothes on the stroop test one way of measuring attention.

It would help her update test-taking skills.

It's been tested on mice for ten times.

Just at this time nasa decided to test some new high-altitude cameras by taking photographs of Yellowstone.

Kahoot software can be used to create grammar tests which can be graded on a network.

Michael Tomasello's tests on young children indicate that they have the instinct to help others.

Take her for a walk, and she had no interest in Joe's blood counts or bone marrow test results.

That's why students do better in tests if they get a chance to sleep after learning.

The California department of motor vehicles began giving permits in April for companies to test truly self-driving cars on public roads.

The Chinese ministry of agriculture finds that between 2005—when the government started a soil-testing program that/which gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers—and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons.

The majority of them take on online language test before starting their programme.

The researchers then tested how the monkeys combined—or added—the symbols to get the reward.

The transition is now going through crash tests to make sure it meets federal safety standards.

They inspect all campus buildings and test and maintain all sprinkler(喷水灭火装置) systems fire alarms.

They learn the principles of flight and test their operating skills in the cockpit(驾驶舱) of a variety of flight simulators.

West hasn't tested his idea on larger blocks, but he thinks rolling has clear advantages over sliding.

While the effect of cows milk harvested at different time has not been tested on humans up to now, taking melatonin drugs has been suggested to those who are struggling to fall asleep at night.

You are not paying all or your tuition to merely go to class, study, pass tests and graduate.

Could he help explain her experiences?McGaugh invited her to his lab, and began to test her: he would give her a date and ask her to tell him about the world events on that day.

To conduct the tests, the University of Helsinki researchers trained 31 dogs to rest in front of a video screen.

John Nielsen, AAA’s managing director of automotive engineering and repair, said tests suggest drivers may be overestimating their own abilities.

The tests are designed to detect subtle ( ' , 细微的) changes in mental function, and involve solving puzzles, recalling words and details from stories, and identifying patterns in collections of letters and symbols.

The study included healthy, educated adults who took standard tests of memory, reasoning and perception at the outset and at some point over the next seven years.

The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo ( ' , 禁忌 ).

On the other hand, indicators of a person's accumulated knowledge—like performance on tests of vocabulary and general knowledge—kept improving with age, according to findings published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging.

Do sufficient testing before taking action.

You probably think college students are experts at sleeping, but parties, preparations for tests, personal problems and general stress can wreck a student’s sleep habits, which can be bad for the body and the mind.

On top of all that, a new study published in the journal Learning and Memory finds you are probably better off sleeping than making last- minute preparations for a test.

Confronted by a setback such as a disappointing test grade, students with a growth mind-set said they would study harder or try a different strategy.

Attributing a bad grade to their own lack of ability, those with a fixed mindset said that they would study less in the future, try never to take that subject again and consider cheating on future tests.

At the start of junior high, the math achievement test scores of the students with a growth mind-set were comparable to those of students who displayed a fixed mind-set.

After taking appropriate measures to contain the RF interference to our test lab, we tested the attack out for ourselves, and were able to verify that it's possible with the right equipment.

The first test market results surprised even the ConAgra team.

The Healthy Choice product line was carefully tested with consumers before being introduced to the general public.

Otis Brawley said, Many doctors are ordering screening tests purely to cover themselves.

While such vigilant（警觉的）tracking of cancer is a good thing in general, researchers are increasingly questioning whether all of this testing is necessary for the elderly.

With the percentage of people over age 65 expected to nearly double by 2050, it's important to weigh the health benefits of screening against the risks and costs of routine testing

Few couples can stand the test of economic hardships

Ten years ago, when the first Newsweek list based on college-level test participation was published, only three of the top 100 schools had graduating Classes smaller than 100 students

Although many of Hills dale's students came from wealthy households, by the late 1990 average test scores were sliding and it had earned the unaffectionate nickname (绰号) Hills jail.

Students focused more on test scores

their college-level test participation

The real test of character is whether we can learn from our mistake, by understanding why we acted as we did and then exploring ways to avoid similar problems in the future.

The consequences of getting caught are serious and may include a O on a test or assignment, an F in the class, suspension (暂令停学) or dismissal from school and a ruined reputation

Pam said we won't have the psychology test until the end of next week.

Confronted by a setback such as a disappointing test grade, students with a growth mindset said they would study harder or try a different strategy.

In November 2015, the Netherlands completed a 229-foot-long bike path paved with solar panels as a test for future projects.

It seems to me that a compromise would be receiving the exam questions a day or two in advance, and then doing the actual test in class with the ticking clock overhead.

Manufacturers would have nearly total freedom to test their self-driving technology on public roads.

McGaugh invited her to his lab, and began to test her: he would give her a date and ask her to tell him about the world events on that day.

That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that.

To test that theory, the team examined the yellowish, dried remains inside the vessels.

When I asked his opinion on this matter, he responded, ui like in-class exams because the time is already reserved, as opposed to using my free time at home to work on a test.

When your child throws her spoon on the floor for the sixth time as you try to feed her, and you say, That's enough! I will not pick up your spoon again! The child will immediately test your claim.

You are not allowed to drive a car unsupervised until you have passed a driving test.

Only about 50 students are invited based on their performance on written tests and at the USA Math Olympiad.

If you think this does not apply to you, then here is a simple test to show you are wrong.

The high cost of medical services and unnecessary tests and treatments have driven up medical expenses.

The good news is that a bill just approved by the House and a bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee would implement or test many reforms that should help slow the rise in medical costs over the long term.

Testing innovations do no good unless the good experiments are identified and expanded and the bad ones are dropped.

Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.

Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in defensive medicine by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sued.

In time it should help restrain costs by eliminating redundant tests, preventing drug interactions, and helping doctors find the best treatments.

Enrollees would have to pay more money for many services out of their own pockets, and that would encourage them to think twice about whether an expensive or redundant test was worth it.

Conversion of paper to electronic medical records will help eliminate redundant tests and prevent drug interactions.

But overall, we suspect that spending would come down through elimination of a lot of unnecessary or even dangerous tests and treatments.

South Korea opened its second Antarctic research base in 2014, describing it as a way to test robots developed by Korean researchers for use in extreme conditions.

To test the polluting power of fulmars, researchers collected samples of deposit from eleven ponds on Devon Island.

A high-tech test that can tell when a person is not telling the truth sounds too good to be true.

And his home city of Sacramento, California should see the technology's first test.

And they didn't even report the actual test scores in the final paper.

I diligently attended my SAT, ACT, and Advanced Placement test preparation courses.

Joseph wanted to put this theory to the test.

Just like medical researchers use rats to test ideas for human medical treatments, botanists use plants that are relatively easy to grow in a lab or greenhouse setting to test their ideas for related species.

One or both of these models will help researchers test their ideas—so far mostly done in the lab - on test plots.

Over the next year and a half investigators will test the various strains of salt-tolerant rice they've bred.

Purdue now has a pilot test to assess students' critical thinking skills.

She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming.

The board game Go(围棋) took over from chess as a new test for human thinking in 2016, when a computer beat one of the world's leading professional Go players.

The first Cube Sat was created in the early 2000s, as a way of enabling Stanford graduate students to design, build, test and operate a spacecraft with similar capabilities to the USSR's Sputnik.

The good news is that a bill just approved by the House and a bill approved by the Senate finance Committee would implement or test many reforms that should help slow the rise in medical costs over the long term.

The idea was to test the machines on a database that included up to 1 million different images of nearly 700, 000 different people—and not just a large database featuring a relatively small number of different faces, more consistent with what's been used

Then they try to teach the students something with a specific presentation style, like using visual aids, and do a follow up test to see how much they learned.

They scanned the brains of teens and adults who were playing a virtual driving game designed to test whether players would brake at a yellow light or speed on through the crossroad.

When an exhausted student goes to school, he risks hurting everyone on the road with his impaired driving; he doesn't have the cognitive resources to do well on his English test; he has lower self-control with his friends; and at home, he is moody with hi

When psychologists and educators test for learning styles, they're trying to figure out whether these are inherent traits that affect how well students learn instead of just a preference.

Yet, she noted, many young people are especially unwilling to take risks at school—afraid that one low test score or poor grade could cost them a spot at a selective university.

Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father’s line or mitochondrial DNA, which a passed down only from mothers.

The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.

Most tests require collecting cells by webbing saliva in the mouth and sending it to the company for testing.

More than two dozen companies sell DNA tests Directly to the public , ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to more than $2500.

DNA testing is also the latest rage many passionate genealogists-and supports businesses that offer to search for a family's geographic roots.

Critics also argue that commercial genetic testing is only as good as the reference collections to which a sample is compared.

But some observers are skeptical, “There is a kind of false precision being hawked by people claiming they are doing ancestry testing,” says Trey Duster, a New York University sociologist.

Among the most popular : paternity and kinship testing , which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and families can use to track down kids put for adoption.

All tests require a potential candidate with whom to compare DNA.

All he needs to do is shell our $30 for paternity testing kit ( ' , PTK) at his local drugstore - and another $120 to get the results.

Gray and his colleagues have put them to the test by examining four family trees that between them represent more than 2,000 languages.

The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.

They often include a certain amount of digging to test for buried materials at selected points across a landscape.

Surveys and test samples have also become important for understanding the larger landscapes that contain archaeological sites.

If the bar exam is truly a stern enough test for a would-be lawyer, those who can sit it earlier should be allowed to do so.

How do archaeologists know where to find what they are looking for when there is nothing visible on the surface of the ground? Typically, they survey and sample ( ' , make test excavations on) large areas of terrain to determine where excavation will yield useful information.

You make further inferences, for instance, about how the test may be significant to you, or about its validity—inferences that form the basis of a personal response for which the author will inevitably be far less responsible.

Rather, we ascribe meanings to test on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures ( ' , so especially its language structures) and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.

In people who score high in a test of neuroticism, a personality dimension associated with self-consciousness and anxiety, eye contact triggered more activity associated with avoidance, according to the finnish researcher Jari hietanen and colleagues.

The scores were then used in conjunction with an applicant's score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, a standardised exam which is marked out of 800 points, to make a decision on whether to accept him or her.

These have included Britain's DPT diverted profits tax, Australia's MAAL multinational anti-avoidance law, and India's SEP significant economic presence test, to name but a few.

This means that a DNA database may have a lot of data from some regions and not others, so a person's test results may differ depending on the company that processes the results.

To test this idea, he turned to the university-admissions process.

We believe that if animals ran the labs, they would test us to determine the limits of our patience, our faithfulness, our memory for locations.

When younger kids learn computer science, they learn that it's not just a confusing, endless string of letters and numbers -- but a tool to build apps, or create artwork, or test hypotheses.