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Often, these use a placebo, where needles are inserted in randomly selected points – a reasonable test for whether qi and meridians are real, but not necessarily meaningful if acupuncture works through a more medically plausible mechanism, such as the release of endorphins.

From a scientific perspective, however, the Democratic primary race presents a reasonable test case for the Todorov approach, which is best suited for candidates with a low recognition factor.

The ITER parameters have been revised during this period and it was not clear that for new conditions a reasonable test program could be developed.

Moreover, to obtain a reasonable testing rate with an acceptable training time for the ensemble based algorithms, we have shown by simulations that the proper number of ensemble should be chosen less than 15.

HER2-negative IHC staining demonstrated a high predictive value and specificity for negative ERBB2 gene amplification, suggesting that it is a reasonable screening test for HER2 status in bladder cancer.

We systematically evaluated a variety of nonfasting screening tests used in the clinical setting for identifying dysglycemia in a population of overweight and obese adolescents and found reasonable test performance for the 1-h GCT and the random glucose.

Another study reported reasonable test characteristics for the bleeding codes we used, with 93% sensitivity and 88% specificity for "any" bleeding, and 94% sensitivity and 83% specificity for "major" bleeding [ 21].

To the best of our knowledge no biological data are available that test and clarify the function of archaeal MBF1 and therefore it was a reasonable approach to test for archaeal MBF1 function in a yeast MBF1 deletion strain, especially since functional complementation by plant, human and insect MBF1 has been demonstrated [ 7, 21].

Thus urine LAM is a reasonable rule-in test for active TB in those with a CD4 count <200 cells/mm3 (sensitivity  = 37% and specificity  = 95%).

16 This review concluded that protein to creatinine ratio was a reasonable "rule out" test for detecting significant proteinuria in hypertensive pregnancy.

Our 2008 review of the diagnostic accuracy of the random urinary PrCr concluded that it is a "reasonable" rule-out test for detecting proteinuria of ≥0.3 g/d in hypertensive pregnancy [ 14].