Sentences with phrase «against the hypothesis of»

We read scripture searching for attributes and end up interpreting things out of context often as we search for data points to or against our hypothesis of God.

However, different telescopes have observed a bright light source at the location of the stars» collision, which provides clear evidence against the hypothesis of collapse.

The satellite data does raise some issues — for example it shows that the link between tropospheric and surface level temperatures is not as tight as was once thought, but the idea that it represents serious evidence against the hypothesis of human - induced global warming has been thoroughly refuted.

The lack of trend in the cosmic ray intensity over the last 50 years (Agee et al., 2012; McCracken and Beer, 2007) provides another strong arguement against the hypothesis of a major contribution of cosmic rays to ongoing climate change.

McCracken and Beer, 2007) http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2006JA012117.shtml provides another strong argument against the hypothesis of a major contribution of cosmic rays to ongoing climate change.

The lack of trend in the cosmic ray intensity over the last 50 years (Agee et al., 2012; McCracken and Beer, 2007) provides another strong argument against the hypothesis of a major contribution of cosmic rays to ongoing climate change.»

What are telling observations against the hypothesis of a largely internally driven imbalance are, on the one hand, the fact the sea level variations are relentlessly positive, irrespective the phase of the PDO, and, on the second hand, the fact that the rate of warming over land is larger than it is over sea (and also that the shallow (0 - 700m) ocean layer never actually cools).

What are telling observations against the hypothesis of a largely internally driven imbalance are, on the one hand, the fact the sea level variations are relentlessly positive, irrespective the phase of the PDO

Before looking at any historical evidence, let us review, in an abbreviated way, what arguments could be made for and against the hypothesis of BTC being a safe haven asset.

Our results substantiate earlier research showing neutral or positive impacts of successful ART on marital relations (Slade et al., 1997; Sydsjö et al., 2002; McMahon et al., 2003) and speak against the hypothesis of general vulnerability of ART couples (Andrews et al., 1992).

Not exact matches

I have run across Robert Farmer who argues against the natural rate of unemployment hypothesis with implications for not raising interest rates.

Scientists, for their part, especially those in the scientific community with burdens against religion, need to understand that the nature of scientific evidence, method and hypotheses and the nature of theological evidence, method, and hypothesis have more in common than they might imagine.

The hypothesis of «consumer terror» corresponds to the prejudices of a middle class, which considers itself politically enlightened, against the allegedly integrated proletariat, which has become petty - bourgeois and corrupt.

On face value, W. E. Hocking's remark that when Whitehead arrived at Harvard «his speculative structure... was already well advanced in its main outlines» is a bit of external evidence against my hypothesis, but it may mean nothing more than that Whitehead was little influenced by the philosophical opinions and controversies of his American colleagues during these years, which seems very much to have been the case.

Thus in this essay I wish merely to propose a provisional outline of the stages in the composition of Process and Reality in the hopes that it might elicit alternate hypotheses, all of which need to be tested against each other.

All I can say here is that such a hypothesis regarding the New Testament, which makes such nonsense of its soteriology (a man who merely reveals God can not save us in the way the text says he can and does) and which goes against the prima facie sense of such texts as Philippians 2:6 - 9 and John 20:28, can not long succeed whatever luminaries put their names to it.

Circumstantial evidence against the accused man must not only lead consistently, step by step, to a conclusion of his guilt; it must also «exclude to a moral certainty every other reasonable hypothesis.»

We have to take our interpretations of human behavior as hypotheses and test them against an ever wider range of experience.

Tom Bethell («Against Sociobiology,» January) is to be commended for pointing out the fatal flaw of socio biology and of its latter «day offspring «evolutionary psychology»: the lack of falsifiability of many of the hypotheses proposed in these fields.

I'm not ready to accept any of the evidence for or against that hypothesis.

The hypothesis was that mediocre teams (defined by teams with a winning percentage of less than 60 %) would be undervalued when they play against the top teams in baseball (opponent winning percentage of at least 60 %).

This hypothesis was immediately validated when we found that teams who have played at least two consecutive road games have won 64.2 % of their games against the spread.

Our latest hypothesis is simple and reminiscent of our Week 6 system: Bettors overreact to teams that have performed poorly against the spread.

There are multiple hypotheses for the mechanisms behind breastfeeding and childhood obesity and one of them pertains to the poor self - regulation of energy intake among formula - fed infants.19 In contrast to infants fed at the breast who may need to actively suckle, formula - fed infants are more likely to be passive in the feeding process, and caregivers» control might undermine infants» capability for self - regulation to balance energy intake against internal cues of hunger and satiety.

Our findings support the hypothesis that predominant breast feeding protects against the occurrence of respiratory infection and illness and associated hospital admissions in the first year of life.

«The hypothesis was that the presentation of these different viral proteins would stimulate the development of cross-protective immunity that would provide broader protection against multiple subtypes.»

Those are choices that males make, and you can't just exclude one half of the population from the data against which you're going to test your hypothesis.

Meanwhile, in the face of powerful evidence against two of its strongest initial hypotheses — concerning MMR and thimerosal — the vaccine skeptic movement is morphing before our eyes.

While one theory holds that the differences reflect species range — that maybe some species simply don't exist in some countries — our data finding microbes typical of the developing world at the mid-stage in Bangladeshi patients argue against that hypothesis.»

«If our hypothesis is correct, it wouldn't matter what you are vaccinating against, you would still raise the risk of HIV infection,» says Patterson.

Weighing against that hypothesis is an observation that the ground west of the crest slopes away, not toward the crater.

Another prediction of the behavioral immune system hypothesis is that we are more vigilant against getting sick when we are more vulnerable to disease.

It is a fundamental requirement of scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world, rather than resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.

However, Sandel et al. focus on results that support their hypothesis, rather than testing it against its most obvious competitor: that endemic species occur in places where contemporary patches of climatically appropriate habitat are small.

The findings argue against the conventional evolutionary psychology hypothesis that ideas of fairness and punishment are just evolutionary holdovers, says anthropologist of Robert Boyd of the University of California, Los Angeles.

We examine the hypotheses that the spermalege functions to (i) defend against pathogens introduced during traumatic insemination; and (ii) reduce the costs of wound healing during traumatic insemination.

He sensibly concluded his paper saying that this was all only speculation — a «hypothesis to be discussed and tested against further lines of evidence».

And while numerous previous studies of the phenomenon focused on a single hypothesis, the Larison - led study was the first to fully test a large set of hypotheses against one another.

Of course there are other arguments against the simple solar hypothesis (e.g stratospheric cooling which has been covered in RC).

Bohlender and his colleagues compared their DNA to the DNA of some of our ancestors, then ran the numbers against a few statistical models to come up with their hypothesis.

Each of these three hypotheses generate different so - called «mortality curves» — a chart that results when mortality risk is plotted against age on a graph.

The RTM hypothesis is that the immune systems of people who reach the ages at which AS, beta - amyloid, and other pathological aggregates begin to accumulate would generate antibodies against their abnormal form, and that people who remain free of these specific diseases might be producing antibodies that are particularly effective at keeping these aggregates at bay.

Despite the reasonableness of thinking that it would reduce the risk of a range of age - related diseases, so far «the vast majority of the epidemiological data does not support the hypothesis that body iron stores are directly related to the risk of developing CHD,» (2) and there's no evidence that it's protective against any other age - related disorder.»

Speaking against this hypothesis is its very anterior position and the absence of brachyury, foxA, and noggin expression (27,28).

Against this hypothesis, intoxication of bustard predators like golden eagles Aquila chrysaetus or foxes Vulpes vulpes has never been reported.

In a random effects analysis, ALE scores were tested against a null hypothesis of random distribution across the brain, thereby identifying those regions where empirical ALE values were higher than could be expected by chance.

The Harvard Nurses» Questionnaire Study Evidence piles up against the use of HRT to prevent heart disease The coronary artery spasm hypothesis Use real progesterone Men, hormones and heart disease

The basic idea of the acid - alkaline hypothesis is that if we eat acid - forming foods, we get sick, and if we eat alkaline - forming foods, we'll be healthy and we'll be protected against disease.

The overall acid - alkaline hypothesis, the basic idea is that if we eat acid - forming foods, we get sick, and if we eat alkaline - forming foods, we'll be healthy and we'll be protected against disease, and there are three basic claims of the hypothesis.

Knowledge is power and in «In Defense of Food,» Pollan pushes back against the rise of nutritionism and the «lipid hypothesis,» (fat causes heart disease — no scientific research has ever proven this to be true, though it has pervaded our culture for nearly 30 years!).