Nasal endoscopy, a CT scan, and clinical symptoms are all used to make a positive diagnosis.

A 2011 study suggested parents of children with ADHD who label their children as " indigos " may perceive problematic behaviors emblematic of ADHD to be more positive and experience less frustration and disappointment, though they still experience more negative emotions and conflicts than parents of children without a diagnosis.

Alternatively, laboratory diagnosis of measles can be done with confirmation of positive measles IgM antibodies or isolation of measles virus RNA from respiratory specimens.

The conditionals needed for making the diagnosis are:: " The probability of infection given positive test ", and: " The probability of infection given negative test ".

Although a significant degree of uncertainty exists with reference to the diagnosis, WHO report states, " Based on the latest laboratory results, a significant proportion of the samples tested positive for enterovirus 71 ( EV-71 ), which causes hand foot and mouth disease ( HFMD ).

A positive diagnosis of macular degeneration may account for a patient's micropsia.

One practice for diagnosis of GERD is a short-term treatment with proton pump inhibitors, with improvement in symptoms suggesting a positive diagnosis.

A positive diagnosis generally requires observing specific macroscopic and microscopic changes.

Both macroscopic ( from endoscopy ) and microscopic positive findings are required to make a diagnosis.

Edmund is more concerned about the effect a positive diagnosis might have on his mother than for himself.

These tests must be carried out on a minimum of two occasions at least 6 weeks apart and be positive on each occasion demonstrating persistent positivity to allow a diagnosis of antiphospholipid syndrome.

A low platelet count and positivity for antibodies against β < sub > 2 </ sub >- glycoprotein 1 or phosphatidylserine may also be observed in a positive diagnosis.

An important requirement in clinical diagnosis and testing is sensitivity and specificity-a test needs to be sensitive enough to detect the relevant problem if it is present ( and therefore avoid too many false negative results ), but specific enough not to respond to other things ( and therefore avoid too many false positive results ).

If MRI or bone scans are necessary, a positive diagnosis relies upon patchy areas of vascularity to the capital femoral epiphysis ( the developing femoral head ).

Differential diagnosis includes SLE, disseminated tuberculosis, lymphoma, Sarcoidosis, and viral lymphadenitis. Clinical findings sometimes may include positive results for IgM / IgG / IgA Antibodies.

If this is positive it confirms the diagnosis.

Among the more influential scientists have been Harold Gulliksen ( whose book, " Theory of Mental Tests ," helped codify classical test theory ); Frederic Lord ( Item Response Theory ); Samuel Messick, ( modern validity theory ); Robert Linn ( currently known for testing and educational policy ); Norman Frederiksen ( performance assessment ); Ledyard Tucker ( test analysis, including inventing the " Angoff Method " of standard setting ); Donald Rubin ( missing data and causal modeling from observational data ); Karl Joreskog ( structural equation modeling and confirmatory factor analysis ); Paul Holland ( differential item functioning, test equating, causal modeling ); John Carroll ( language testing and cognitive psychology ); Michael Lewis ( infant cognitive, social, and emotional development ); Irving Sigel ( children's cognitive development ); Herman Witkin ( cognitive and learning styles ); K. Patricia Cross ( adult education ); Samuel Ball ( an evaluation researcher who documented the positive educational effects of Sesame Street ); and David Rosenhan ( known for the Rosenhan experiment, which challenged the validity of psychiatric diagnosis ).

A study between 2003 and 2006 concluded that triclosan ( as an endocrine disruptor ) affects the immune system and showed a positive association with allergy or hay fever diagnosis.

A positive diagnosis is usually made only with an examination under anesthetic ( EUA ).

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma ( NHL ) is present in about 3 % of HIV positive people at the time of their diagnosis of HIV.

Possibly up to 15 % of all new cases of arthritis are due to parvovirus, and a history of recent contact with a patient and positive serology generally confirms the diagnosis.

Vaccination will cause cats to have positive results on FIV tests, making diagnosis more difficult.

A significant proportion of screen positive infants were lost to follow-up, before a diagnosis could be confirmed or ruled out in all screening programs.

In its place is a passionate consciousness grasped and molded to feelings of positive or negative values even as the actions of one's life are determined by constellations of process in which one is caught.

But it is a clumsy and wasteful process: it can produce negative results but not much that is positive.

Debate rid us of McCarthy but did not give us much that is positive.

For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.

Like most major works of synthesis, The History Of England is informed by the positive views of a first-class mind, and this is surely a major work.

Only when a concert of nations rests on the positive foundations of shared goals and values is it likely to form a viable instrument of long-range policy.

What is interesting is that his positive qualifications for the post were revealed only as a kind of tail to his candidacy.

It is always wise to consult your marine dealer, local yacht or boat club secretary, or local law enforcement officers if you are not positive what the regulations are.

We say that N is nilpotent if there is some positive integer R such that Af.

We first define a function b{t} as follows: given the set of squares such that each has three corners on C and vertex at t, b{t} is the corresponding set of positive parametric differences between T and the backward corner points.

The positive Kohnstamm reactivity in Condition 1 ( ( the naive state ) is not adequately explained by such a concept as suggestibility ( if suggestibility is defined as the influence on behavior by verbal cues ).

His first conclusion, on behavior of individual items, is negative, whereas mine ( on Ath. and Yok. ) was partially positive.

But there is no positive and consistently demonstrable relationship in the strictest sense.

He is a trustee for the common good, however feeble the safeguards which the positive or municipal law of property provides against his misuse of that share of the common fund, wisely or unwisely, entrusted to his keeping.

If the rake angle **yc of the knife is high enough and the friction angle **yt between the front of the knife and the back of the chip is low enough to give a positive value for Af, the resultant vector R will lie above the plane of the substrate.

so that the absence of the hymen is by no means positive proof that a girl has had sex relations.

An action once universally condemned by all Christian churches and forbidden by the civil law is now not only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant denominations, but also deemed, at certain times, to be a positive religious duty.

Proximate in the sense that there are more distant, more `` positive '' ends we seek, to which victory over Communism is but a means.