In a study on confidence and accuracy, Lewis Goldberg asked experienced neurologists and their administrative assistants to diagnose brain damage among patients as being organic or non-organic damage using a standard protocol in the field.
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As Hurricane Sandy moves on, some homeowners may get a sick feeling as they survey the damage, pull out their insurance policies and learn that standard coverage excludes flood damage.
Its predecessor, the Business Accounting Deliberation Council, appeared powerless to pass any standard that would damage the suffering Japanese economy.
However, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has warned that if the problem is not sorted soon, a sub-standard pitch could damage England's 2018 World Cup bid.
Running an AC unit without a low-pressure cutoff switch when it's colder than about 60 degrees might damage it, says Troy Gregory, president of Standard Heating and Air Conditioning.
Despite the widespread flooding caused by such storms and though standard home policies do not cover flood damage, only about one-quarter of homeowners in risky areas have purchased flood insurance under a special scheme set up by the federal government.
The Liberator fired a standard .380 handgun round without visible damage, though it also misfired on another occasion when the firing pin failed to hit the primer cap in the loaded cartridge due a misalignment in the hammer body, resulting in an anti-climactic thunk.
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We changed the argument from one about the "rights" of so-called private clubs to one about the "wrongs" of a cadre of industry titans using the fig leaf of such memberships to exclude women, the standard this behavior sets in corporate America and damage it does to women at all levels.
Mr Ginn is only too aware of the damage done to the American market by the failure to adopt a single digital standard, and is determined not to let the same thing happen again.
In one of the examples cited in the report, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has twice raised the acceptable level of radiation damage reactor vessels can sustain, after several plants violated or came close to violating the original standard.
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As for whether it works for sharpening the brain or minimizing damage from a stroke "the jury is out, " says Catherine Ulbricht, co-founder of Natural Standard Research Collaboration, a Cambridge, Mass.
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