Sentence examples for positive readings from inspiring English sources

'False Positive' Readings Indeed, Mr. Campbell acknowledged that there was a "false positive" reading at the ocean beach in Harvey Cedars, and he said that the E.P.A. was expected to issue new testing guidelines shortly.

Of the positive readings, 78.4% (66.2% of the total readings) read at the high RP1 target had recoveries falling within the acceptable range of 70 to 130%, whereas approximately 70% of positive readings (65.7% of the total readings) made at a low RP1 target achieved this acceptable recovery.

False positive readings are also a risk.

In about 15percentt of cases, misleading positive readings result in unneeded colonoscopies.

The Conference Board's chief economist, Ken Goldstein, said the series of positive readings suggested "that the economy might turn in a better performance in the first quarter of 2003 than it did in the second half of last year".

But this does not mean that it should not support believers, of whatever faith, who want to tackle demonstrably harmful phenomena such as religiously-justified terrorism through more positive readings of the same religion.

At the same time, it found, women have a 1 in 10 chance of a suspicious spot on the mammogram turning out to be noncancerous, so-called false-positive readings that have nearly doubled since the 1980's.

However, the lower specificity may result in false-positive readings that could prompt unnecessary clinic visits for electrocardiogram confirmation of the rhythm.

A large percentage of abnormalities were false-positive readings.

Highest sensitivity was obtained by quadruple interpretation with referral of all radiologist- and radiographer-positive readings.

In addition, liquefaction of the sputum specimen over time could contribute to false-positive readings, perhaps due to different absorption by the testing device.