These findings suggest that primary HPV testing merits consideration as another alternative for cervical cancer screening 33, 34.
IN HIS stunningly dull reply to the president's state-of-the-union message, Trent Lott, the Republican leader in the Senate, trotted out his party's line on education: teacher-testing, merit pay, independently run public schools.
While rapid tests are an essential tool in efforts to make life-saving treatment available to those infected with HIV in resource-limited settings, the accuracy of rapid test algorithms, the low PPV of weakly reacting rapid tests, and alternatives to WB for confirmatory testing merit investigation.
Combined with our simulation studies that support a potential improvement in power when variance heterogeneity is involved, these results suggest that these tests merit further investigation.
Point-Of-Care diagnostic technologies can also have a part in reducing the number of consultations before referral, and such tests merit further development and evaluation.
The emotional and surgical import of false-positive tests merit emphasis: Wilson et al (2008), in a CT screening study of 3642 persons, reported that 41% had non-calcified nodules, 95% of which were non-cancerous.
Others pointed to the merits of tests like the Regents, saying that they served as a type of academic barometer, one that not only indicated a school's standing but could also encourage students to do better.
Pragmatism demands that philosophy grow out of and test its merits in the "soil" of lived experience.
Test results, merits of design variants and major milestones for the LHC leads manufacture will be reported.
We can easily test the merits of the formalism by comparing the calculated electromagnetic potential with the infinite series solutions from image charges.
Finally, the reader might wish to test the merits of rival answers to the equality-of-what question by considering a social justice issue different in character from the issues considered so far.
