Sentence examples for Negative readings from inspiring English sources

Negative readings indicate contraction.

Negative readings indicate that a majority of respondents held a pessimistic outlook for how the German economy would develop in the next six months.

Some technology bellwethers, including Oracle, Cisco Systems and Compaq Computer, issued positive comments, but that was not enough to stem the sell-off or to outweigh negative readings from companies like Ciena, Gateway and Alcoa.

When a significant bottom is reached, it is likely to be accompanied by extreme negative readings in sentiment indicators, such as a two-to-one ratio of bears to bulls among investment newsletter editors.

Dr. Turken said the importance of Wikipedia's medical information became clear to him a couple of years ago when a friend asked him how long H.I.V. tests could give false negative readings.

Separately, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank's business activity index rose to 5.7 in October from minus 1.9 the month before, ending a streak of five months of negative readings that pointed to contraction.

Transvaginal ultrasound, in which a probe is inserted inside the vagina to detect ovarian abnormalities, produces too many false-positive and false-negative readings to become routine.

Unfortunately, several extrarenal factors can lead to false-positive or false-negative readings of kidney function.

Because artefacts related to metal implants are in general less pronounced on MRI scans, a combined interpretation of PET/CT and MRI helps to avoid false-negative readings and/or inaccurate tumour assessment (Fig. 18).

Loss of ketones from urine attributable to microbial action can also cause false-negative readings.

False-negative readings have also been reported with highly acidic urine samples, such as after large intakes of ascorbic acid.