Sentence examples for cost tests from inspiring English sources

In the shafts and tunnels, which are often used sparingly because of their cost, tests can be made to measure strength, elasticity, permeability, and prevailing stresses in rock strata, with particular attention given to the properties of thin partings, or walls, between the more massive beds.

Another category of laboratory testing that is frequently targeted in an effort to improve laboratory utilization are low-volume but high cost tests such as panels for genetic testing or autoantibodies [ 3, 20, 32, 33].

Regardless of the underlying pathology these data do suggest that low cost tests such as urine analysis might not be sufficiently sensitive to be used as a single screening test for renal disease at baseline and there might not be an easy alternative to blood or urine biochemistry for screening patients initiating antiretrovirals in rural African populations.

Moreover, the MBAT is a lower cost test that requires only ordinary chemistry laboratory equipment.

This low cost test strategy will be used to design machinable titanium alloys and more compatible tools.

However, WB is not widely available, perhaps due to its high cost, test handling requirements and differences in result interpretation.

Nevertheless, it remains a widely available relatively low cost test.

"They take low-cost tests and learn along the way," Mr. Zacharakis said.

Doctors mostly perform high-cost tests because they want to help their patients and get paid handsomely for doing so.

There are many E.P.A. regulations that involve a cost per expected life saved in excess of $100 million - far above any value-of-statistical-life estimate used for benefit-cost tests.

"On the whole, it's very good for patients to be able to get frequent, low-cost tests and not have to run for the doctor every time they want a test," she said.