Word: assayer
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...external stairwell is bathed in the steamy heat that washes the entire region. Inside, however, in stark contrast to its tropical-outpost surroundings, are a few jewels of the modern microbiology trade--a state-of-the-art freezer for storing blood samples and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), a machine for screening HIV that can identify specific antibodies to the virus...
...tests try to probe innate abilities, and if achievement tests rate classroom learning, aptitude tests assay something in between--developed abilities. Developed abilities are those nurtured through schoolwork, reading, doing crosswords, soaking up the arts, debating politics, whatever. These aren't inborn traits but honed competencies. Whereas early psychometricians, many of them racist, propagated what Lemann calls the dipstick theory--the idea that a test score is like a mark on a dipstick showing the raw amount of intelligence in your mental oil tank--the field outgrew that simplistic notion at least a generation ago. "I don't think anyone...
Indeed, choosing a reliable gauge for how inflamed the arteries had become proved daunting. After running through a few common but ineffective markers, Ridker finally settled on C-reactive protein, a substance that could be detected, even at low levels, with a special, highly sensitive assay...
...research that has fleshed out his work over the years has shared one major problem: the objects that the experiments contrasted were in different locations, so the assay could not completely discriminate between the location- and object- based theories of attention...
...even as technology pushes forensic science forward, the Constitution has worried it back. The Fourth Amendment guarantees citizens protection from unreasonable searches and seizures, and although the Founding Fathers didn't contemplate strands of DNA when drafting the Bill of Rights, what search could be more invasive than an assay of our very genes...