Sentences with phrase «previous research assumed»

Previous research assumed this was an accidental by - product of humans actively selecting against aggression, but the new study supports the idea that childlike facial expressions in domestic dogs have arisen as a result of indirect selection by humans.

Previous research assumed sea levels in both places would roughly match.

Not exact matches

This challenges previous research that assumed lenient categories were less useful than constraining ones and therefore temporary, showing that these fuzzier categories have staying power.

«Everybody assumes that [agricultural] research as presently configured will just pull this rabbit out of the hat and produce more food than an entire previous history of humanity,» said Val Giddings, the lead author of the paper and a senior fellow at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

«It's often assumed that extreme weather causes the majority of deaths, with most previous research focusing on the effects of extreme heat waves,» says lead author Dr Antonio Gasparrini from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK.

Existing theories and previous research on how innovation occurs largely assume that it is an ingrained quality of the individual and that only people with this innate ability seek and attain jobs that require it.

Previous research had shown that if cells are grown in a medium called Matrigel — firm enough to support cells above a dish's flat surface and pliable enough for cells to reshape as they grow and multiply — cells are able to develop in three dimensions as they would in the body, assuming the various shapes, layers, compartments and relationships within a particular organ.

The first is that it adds to the findings of previous research that a simulation is a viable medium for preservice teachers to practice and reflect in a relatively consequence - free environment before assuming responsibilities in a live classroom.

In fact, these fees are so obscure that Dēmos can only estimate them by assuming «given previous research» that they are equal to the stated expense ratio, thus the total fee level is twice what you thought it was.

In doing research for editors to pitch, look at previous gift guides to see what they've included in the past, and assume that they'll probably do a version of that again — this might be the best way to secure coverage.

The ozone losses predicted in the study are much larger than losses estimated in previous «nuclear winter» and «ultraviolet spring» scenario calculations following nuclear conflicts -LSB-...] A 1985 National Research Council Report predicted a global nuclear exchange involving thousands of megatons of explosions, rather than the 1.5 megatons assumed in the PNAS study, would deplete only 17 percent of the Northern Hemisphere's stratospheric ozone, which would recover by half in three years.

Taken together, this set of studies offers evidence for what many people assumed, but previous research failed to support: more sex may coincide with some forms of relationship happiness, just not the ones we're consciously aware of.

Assuming the three factor structure validated in previous research (callousness, uncaring and unemotional), results showed the expected associations of ICU scales and other psychopathic and more general personality traits, as well as with a wide range of external behavioral and psychosocial criteria.

In addition, previous research has been largely unidirectional, assuming that parental stress damages child health.

Previous research has not considered maternal dating as a component of family instability, assuming single mothers who date and those who do not date experience comparable levels of family disruption and transmit similar messages about the acceptability of nonmarital sex.