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2009 SEP 1 ... ensure that all hiring practices fully comply with the law and immediately correct any discriminatory practice. In addition, Gerber will ensure compliance with Executive Order 11246 ... that there was insufficient evidence of validity to support Gerber's use of the test. Gerber has discontinued its use of the test in the hiring process for entry-level ...
2009 OCT 13 ... therefore, violates Title VII. "Bringing an end to practices that have a discriminatory impact on the basis of sex is a major priority of the Justice Department and the Civil ... Boston, alleges that Massachusetts and the MDOC are using an unlawful physical abilities test (PAT) that disproportionately screens out female applicants for entry-level correctional ...
2009 OCT 20 ... between 16S rRNA gene and tuf gene sequencing. Using the full sequence was less discriminatory than using the first part of the 16S rRNA gene. The three species could not be separated ... of the 16S rRNA gene. The three species could not be separated with the API 20 Strep test. Streptococcus intermedius could be differentiated from the other two species by ...
2009 NOV 2 ... internal consistency (Cronbach alpha=0.70), but with a corresponding decrease in discriminatory ability," wrote I. Tawil and colleagues, University of New Mexico. The ... to separate groups of laypersons and experts and was readministered 7 to 10 days later. Test-retest reliability for individual items and overall score was measured by using Spearman ...
2009 JUL 6 ... 0.76 for males and 0.81 for females. The addition of biomarkers added little additional discriminatory information compared to use of the AUDIT alone," wrote T. Neumann and colleagues, ... Use of self-report questionnaires such as the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) is recommended as the optimum screening method." "We ...
2009 JUN 8 ... at peak TWA value. Chi-square or Mann-Whitney tests were used with p values <= 0.05. Discriminatory performance was evaluated by a binary logistic regression model. 31 healthy subjects ... recruited. All eligible ICD patients were capable of performing an attenuated stress test. TWA analysis was performed during a 15-lead treadmill test. The derived comparative ...
2009 SEP 15 ... (PFGE) is considered as the gold standard technique for MRSA typing, because of its high discriminatory power, but its procedure is rather complicated and time-consuming. The spa gene encodes ... easy handling method. The sequence-based spa typing can be used as the rapid screening test when MRSA outbreak is suspected in areas and hospitals.." Narukawa and ...
2009 JUN 22 ... The researchers concluded: "Therefore, results of this study indicate higher discriminatory power of cPSA in diagnosis of prostate cancer for clinically relevant 2.5-4 ng/ml tPSA ... their study in Canadian Journal of Urology (Complexed prostate specific antigen: better test in the diagnosis of prostate cancer for the clinically relevant 2.5-4 ng/ml total PSA ...
2009 SEP 29 ... especially in screening for Rh antibodies, and higher exact identification rates and discriminatory power for identifying mixed antibodies," wrote J.H. Shin and colleagues, Inje ... in 15,014 samples. When unexpected antibodies were detected by either screening test, those antibodies were identified using both the LISS/Coombs and the NaCl/Enzyme gel ...
2009 OCT 12 ... Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to identify PAD risk factors. The discriminatory power of the model was evaluated by calculating the area under the curve (AUC) of the ... discriminatory (AUC = 0.66). On average, physicians took 15 minutes to perform the ABI test," wrote J.J. Mourad and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "The high ...
2009 JUN 29 ... mood, the absence of diminished drive and the absence of loss of energy. However, some discriminatory items were relatively uncommon. Correcting for frequency, the most clinically valuable ... (PHQ-2) with the additional consideration of the item diminished drive as a rule-in test and poor concentration as a rule-out test," wrote A.J. Mitchell and colleagues, ...
2009 OCT 6 ... nested case-control analysis of a Swiss ambulatory cohort of elderly women assessed the discriminatory power of urinary markers of bone resorption and heel quantitative ultrasound for ... "However, the combination of bone resorption markers and QUS is not better than either test used alone." Nanchen and colleagues published their study in Osteoporosis ...
2009 JUN 9 ... co-stimulators and cell surface receptors affected in innate immunity which have high,discriminatory power. Based on the complex gene expression patterns in human bone cells, we could ... were analyzed in Taqman probe-based quantitative real-time RT-PCR system. Mann-Whitney test indicated significantly down-regulated transcription activity of 3 genes (FCGR2A, NFKB1 ...
2009 JUL 6 ... chi(2) test for logistic regression modeling. POSSUM and O-POSSUM showed satisfactory discriminatory power in receiver operating curve analysis. The validity of the values obtained by ...
2009 SEP 7 ... might predispose to disease risk were identified and a 'Prediction Set', where the discriminatory ability of these SNPs was assessed. Genome-wide scores consisting of, for example, the ... risk,' is now available. "The current paradigm within genetic diagnostics is to test individuals only at loci known to affect risk of complex disease-yet the technology ...
2009 JUL 27 ... to a study from the United States, "Several novel and established knowledge-based discriminatory function formulations and reference state derivations have been evaluated to identify ... regardless of whether the native complex was included or excluded, from the test set. The superior performance of the r.m.r discriminatory function compared with ...
2009 JUN 15 ... concluded: "Amoxicillin-clavulanate susceptibility testing was also a good and simple discriminatory test."
Hodgson and colleagues published their study in the Journal of ...
2009 JUL 27 ... of high risk RRS-82 with very poor patient prognosis regardless of disease stage. The discriminatory power of RRS-82 was further validated using an additional independent cohort of 30 stage ... patients with a high probability of relapse was then validated with a completely blinded test set of 27 adenocarcinoma patients, showing a clear association of high risk RRS-82 with ...
2009 OCT 6 ... the leading public safety human resources consulting firm, were fair, valid and non-discriminatory. The case, which became an issue in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings ... New Haven. In its ruling, the Court noted that the exam was "painstakingly developed to test relevant material" and that the city could not discard the results of a valid test ...
2009 JUN 29 ... the curve (AUC) scores generated by the ROC curves than the EQ-5D, indicating greater discriminatory power, although in all but one analysis the differences in AUC scores between the ... and the SF-6D utility algorithm, respectively. One-way analysis of variance was used to test the hypothetically-constructed preference rule that each set of utility scores differs ...
