Those real-world patients, the panel worried, might be even more vulnerable to the clotting than the test patients had been.
Adaptive tests may be more vulnerable to the effects of DIF on validity [ 15, 18], because in shorter assessments DIF items may have a higher impact.
To investigate whether their mobilization into the peripheral blood will make ALL cells more vulnerable to drug treatment, we next tested the combination effect of AMD3100 and nilotinib (AMN107) in vivo.
Recently however, researchers have challenged this assumption, showing that ERP memory detection tests may be more vulnerable than previously thought (e.g. Mertens & Allen, 2008; Rosenfeld, 2006; Rosenfeld, Soskins, Bosh, & Ryan, 2004, although see Rosenfeld et al., 2008).
"Previously, under guidance given by the court of appeal in the case of Pereira [the vulnerability test], applicants had to show that they were more vulnerable than an 'ordinary homeless person' … So the test became 'more vulnerable than the vulnerable'.
For three of the six antibiotics tested, the cyanobacteria were more vulnerable than the green algae when using photosynthetic efficiency as an endpoint.
The Iranian regime needs to be persuaded that it will become more isolated, more penalized and more vulnerable to internal unrest if it chooses to test and deploy nuclear weapons.
For the statistical tests, this variable was dichotomized as more vulnerable and less vulnerable.
But people with HIV, who are more vulnerable to contracting TB, are required to take a sputum test, where a small amount of mucus from within the lungs is tested for the bacteria.
More than two-thirds also tested positive for H.I.V., which made them more vulnerable to TB.
