Specifically, 39 (75%) of 52 fresh pancreatic tumor tissue samples tested have increased cell surface expression of ANXA2 (Figure S2).
Testing had a greater impact on long-term retention than did repeated study, and the participants who were repeatedly tested had increased retention over those who were only tested once.
"The number of tests has increased significantly," Rogge said.
The use of costly image-taking tests has increased sharply in recent years.
The gap between the percentage of state and private school pupils passing the so-called "tutor-proof" test has increased by more than three percentage points.
Second, at centers such as ours, the number of families having genetic testing has increased dramatically over the past few years, and a relatively small minority of individuals have canceled visits because of fears of potential insurance discrimination.
The use of qualitative tests has increased sharply in recent years as a growing number of states have passed laws requiring recipients of welfare and other types of public assistance to undergo drug screening.
Even as average scores decline, the number of high scores is growing: in math, the number of students who scored at least 700 on the 800-point test has increased more than 20 percent since 2007.
An ugly Ferrari has won champion-ships before – Jody Scheckter's 312T4, another with a misshapen nose, which carried off both titles in 1979 – but the shape of the F2012 is hardly a propitious augury for its drivers, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, and mixed performance in testing has increased the pressure on two men with a lot on their minds.
Whitney Tilson, who helped create Reach and is on the boards of both Pershing Square Foundation, the program's major underwriter, and the Council of Urban Professionals, which runs the program, said that he is "thrilled" that the number of students taking the tests has increased.
