In addition to the liver function test, DFA is developing tests for milk spoilage and cow pregnancy, which it hopes to test in Kenya with an East African dairy collective.
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The most common adverse reactions in patients treated with KYNAMRO that led to treatment discontinuation and occurred at a rate greater than placebo were: injection site reactions (5.0%), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) increased (3.4%), flu-like symptoms (2.7%), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) increased (2.3%), and liver function test abnormal (1.5%).
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The study authors, Dr Murray Mittleman and colleagues at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, measured kidney function using a recognised test called the glomerular filtration rate (GFR).
Which ever department was considering a policy change would carve out a group of 20 to 200 drivers, make them function as a separate business and test the results.
While it stands up to rainfall, spillages and the obligatory throw-the-phone-into-a-bowl-of-water test, the device won't function underwater.
To confirm any story about how the mind has been shaped, you need (among other things) to determine how people today actually think and behave, and to test rival accounts of how these traits function.
Many schools and sports medicine programs offer tests to athletes before they start contact sports to measure their cognitive function, which can then be compared with the same test administered after a concussion.
We can use our time on the moon to develop and test new approaches and technologies and systems that will allow us to function in other, more challenging, environments.
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New missiles also need to be test launched to make sure that reconfigured warheads designed to ride on them will function properly.
The heart function can be assessed with an ultrasound of the heart called an echocardiogram or with a nuclear medicine test.
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While the jury's still out on Jacksonville's marriage test, there's little debate that meeting a player's wife serves another important function: "She's usually a big part of the decision-making process, " Smith said.
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