The phrase "a test for detecting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a method or procedure designed to identify the presence of a specific substance, condition, or characteristic.
Example: "The laboratory developed a test for detecting the presence of the virus in blood samples."
Alternatives: "a method for identifying" or "a procedure for finding".
Genes were selected in two ways: randomly (empty circles) or in decreasing order of p-values from a test for detecting no-variation genes (filled circles).
Dr. Yi Lu, a chemistry professor at the University of Illinois, takes advantage of the color of nanoparticles for a test for detecting hazardous levels of lead.
Chiron, which also makes a test for detecting H.I.V. and hepatitis C in donated blood, said it expected its earnings, excluding one-time charges and gains, to rise to about 45 cents a share from 30 cents, or $58 million, a year earlier.
The leaflet explains that the crack is by a Colombian artist, Doris Salcedo, and that it is called Shibboleth, which, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is "a word used as a test for detecting people from another district or country by their pronunciation; a word or a sound very difficult for foreigners to pronounce correctly".
To check the ability of the proposed method in selection of linear regions of spectra, a test for detecting non-linear regions of spectral data in multivariate spectroscopic assays was also described.
To check the ability of the proposed method in the selection of linear regions of adsorption profile, a test for detecting non-linear regions of adsorption profile data in the presence of methanol was also described.
An artery disease that is strongly linked to heart attacks and strokes is underdiagnosed and undertreated despite the availability of a simple test for detecting it, a study says.
A18 SCIENCE/HEALTH An Overlooked Artery Disease Peripheral arterial disease, a narrowing of arteries in the legs and sometimes the arms that is strongly linked to heart attacks and strokes, is underdiagnosed and undertreated despite availability of a simple test for detecting it, a study said.
Yesterday, at a meeting in Washington, D.C., a pair of well-known researchers, Michael Robbins and Noble Kuriakose, presented a statistical test for detecting fabricated data in survey answers.
It's just an incredibly exciting time". Fillit says that while the accelerator is looking for a number of new biomarkers, he thinks that a blood test for detecting Alzheimer's with the known biomarker called beta amyloid could be ready in as little as three to five years after going through the regulatory process.
Published in Urology in April 2007 by Johns Hopkins University researcher Robert Getzenberg and his team, the paper reported that a novel protein in blood could be used as a sensitive test for detecting early prostate cancer.
