Sentences with phrase «competing hypotheses for»

Competing hypotheses for explaining the role of anxiety in the relation between attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and childhood aggression were evaluated.

Current competing hypotheses for the mammoth's extinction point to human hunting or climate change, possibly combining in a deadly one - two punch.

If you spend an hour or so a week keeping up in the journals (I confess I spend closer to eight to ten) then you would notice that in the last three years at least three competing hypothesis for the cause of the PETM has circulated.

Not exact matches

One searches in vain for signs that Wallis is aware of the multiple, competing hypotheses which have emerged in the past decade concerning the continued stagnation of the less - developed countries (LDCs).

Their argument has been around for four decades, but nothing in the letter addresses the challenges we raised: that the mathematical ground of inclusive fitness theory is unsound and that, when you compare competing hypotheses, outcomes are much more directly and convincingly explained by mainstream natural selection.

Yet the dominant hypothesis today focuses on competing for mates — that is, intimidating members of the same sex and attracting members of the opposite sex.

«We thought this was a very interesting set up and when we tested these two competing hypotheses in this adoptive - based research design, we found there was no association between parenting and the child's intelligence later in life once we accounted for genetic influences,» Beaver said.

It's not clear exactly why this is; one hypothesis is that Wolbachia competes for resources with other intruders, such as the dengue virus.

Peter Biro and his collaborators here present a novel energetic hypothesis for how minimum and maximum metabolic rates can together constrain the expression of behavioral variation at these different levels, limiting what animals can do in terms of finding food and mates, competing, and avoiding predators.

It seems that if we apply a competing hypothesis paradigm, ala Thomas Kuhn's definition of science, then neither idea can be fully excluded because they are can never fully be disaggregated for an real comparison.

This was an experiment which aimed to test the hypothesis that cloud seeding with silver iodide could suppress hail by creating an excess of nucleating embryos that would compete for the available cloud water (and thus keep all the hydrometeors smaller)-- more precipitation, in fewer big «globs» of hail.

Science advances by plausible hypotheses that compete with each other for people's acceptance.

Neither of these two competing (or complementary) hypotheses have passed this test, as yet, although the underlying mechanisms for BOTH have been validated experimentally.

Suggesting that the deep ocean has sequestered the heat and will eventually release it again sounds to me a lot like the competing hypothesis that the oceans play the dominant role in regulating our climate and global temperature, something Bob Tisdale has been banging on about for a long while, and seems to be gaining more and more traction.

This is reinforced by your view of a competing hypothesis, which would have to offer explanation for what's happening now and project a different future, perhaps one where we breathe a sigh of relief...

@Dan «I think it woudl be a useful thing for me to identify competing hypotheses & then I & others can think of observations that can be made that would give us more or less reason to believe one or the other of those conjectures is right»

As for the unbiased analysis of competing hypotheses, I once experimented with having two teams.

Much debate continues to surround this idea, and many critics have voiced their support for a competing premise called the «Slushball Earth hypothesis.»

The research teams, seven launched in North America and one in Europe, were charged with defining research goals and hypotheses to be used for presentation at the CoreNet Global Summits in 2004, published research reports and a set of diagnostic tools for use by senior corporate real estate and infrastructure leaders to assist them in assessing their current state and what they need to do to move their organizations to where they need to be to compete in 2010.