But if the antibiotic clearly fails to have a beneficial effect, the results are deemed negative.
The samples taken during the Tour had been deemed negative last year, but the French lab conducted a more sophisticated test on each sample this time, to determine the presence of man-made testosterone.
In July one was arrested for photographing a Baghdad traffic jam, after his pictures were deemed "negative" for mocking Mr Maliki's assertion that life in the capital was improving.
For example, in therapeutic indications where treatment with a medicine of inferior efficacy would risk increasing mortality or may delay more effective treatment, leading to irreversible harm, the benefit risk balance may be deemed negative even when the comparison with placebo seems favourable.
Patients who lack any residual GAA expression and are deemed negative for cross-reacting immunologic material (CRIM) have a poor response to ERT.
In its adjudicative aspect any ethical system is a feedback loop: feedback is deemed negative when one's utterances or actions are not considered to be socially normative, or deemed positive when they are.
I suppose if one were a hypersensitive spoiled child, such rhetoric could be deemed "negative".
By convention, the charge carried by electrons is deemed negative, and that by protons positive, a custom that originated with the work of Benjamin Franklin.
Two positive results were deemed positive and two negative results were deemed negative, which exceeded national HIV testing guidelines.
Nevertheless, HYDEqPCR detected 70%% (98/141) positive samples in those that were deemed negative by bacterial culture.
