Sentence examples for measured their ability from inspiring English sources

The team looked at 12 suspected or known "endocrine disrupting chemicals" (EDCs) used in fracking operations and measured their ability to mimic or block the effects of reproductive hormones.

The students who were told they got a good night's sleep performed significantly better in the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, a cognitive exercise which measured their ability to listen and process information.

In addition, we measured their ability to inhibit aggregation in three unrelated amyloid species: Aβ42, transthyretin, and human islet amylin polypeptide.

This speculation is supported by the fact that additional exams some of the students had to take for admission to their preferred university also rarely measured their ability to write or speak (e.g., Nakano, 2009).

Schisler's team isolated two bacilli and four yeasts, and measured their ability to metabolize choline, a chemical produced in the flowers of the wheat that stimulates the growth of the fungus.

The team took magnetic resonance images of the subjects' brains, gave them a battery of cognitive tests, and performed a standard test that measured their ability to remove glucose from the blood.

We examined AR binding affinities of our compounds in a competitive binding assay with a radiolabeled high affinity AR ligand, 3H-mibolerone, and also measured their abilities to stimulate AR-mediated transcriptional activation in a cotransfection assay.

The bilingual patients also performed better on poststroke tests that measured their abilities to pay attention to retrieve and organize information.

"An individual's ability to answer a multiple-choice exam," Mr. Day told the city's Civil Service Board, "does nothing but measure their ability to read and retain".

Teachers — many of them — will continue to resent efforts to use standardized tests to measure their ability to teach.

Yes, they have done well on the Federal Reserve's "stress tests", designed to measure their ability to withstand a 2008 repeat.