Doctors ran a series of tests, ruling out appendicitis and a stroke, among other ailments.
This traditional approach yields a hardware-dependent, average friction coefficient that is unavailable in advance of component testing, ruling out true up-front design and leading to redundant lining screening tests.
Disease progression, as well as tests ruling out other conditions, is often used to make a diagnosis.
Maximal (uncoupled) respiration was similarly affected by the cBID mutants tested, ruling out that BID alters RCR, because it affects ATPase or activity or ATP/ADP exchange.
1-MT did not show any inhibitory activity on TNF-induced cytotoxicity on L929 cells at any concentration tested, ruling out that IDO inhibitors in general could directly interfere with necrotic cell death.
Thus a negative protein to creatinine ratio remains a good test for ruling out significant proteinuria, but positive tests results may have a high rate of false positives in this low prevalence population.
We found standard ultrasound examination to be a potentially useful test for ruling in scarring, but poor for ruling it out.
Inappropriately interpreting a negative autoantibody test as ruling out type 1a diabetes may result in incorrect treatments, expensive genetic testing, and/or failure to recommend participation in autoantibody screening studies to identify family members at risk for disease.
