Sentences with phrase «at alternative explanations»

Perhaps, since skin cancer rates are rising despite the highest rates of sunscreen use in history... it is time to look at alternative explanations.

Not exact matches

Recently, though, an alternative explanation has emerged: Perhaps our measurement of productivity is at fault.

At what point does random chance cease to be an equally valid explanation as the alternative explanations that it is a two - headed coin or that I am lying?

-- at least you can recognise an alternative explanation.

After this, we will look carefully at numerous texts from Scripture which are often used by Calvinists to defend the doctrine of Unconditional Election, and will suggest alternative explanations for these texts which fit better with their grammatical, cultural, theological, and historical contexts.

But, on the other hand, it is quite unjustified for theists to hold that we must tolerate or swallow the paradoxes or explain them away (by feats of ingenuity so subtle, and verbal methods so remote from intuitive insight or definite logical structures, that only deity could know with any assurance what was taking place), giving as justification the claim that the alternative position of atheism is even more paradoxical (lacking, it may be urged, any principle of cosmic explanation at all).

If there are alternative explanations then that link is not clear at all.

He may at times offer a tad of pseudo humility and claim that he knows that he hasn't cornered the market on doctrinal correctness, but as soon as you offer an alternative explanation that counters his belief, he lets you know that you are wrong.

With creationist explanations disqualified at the outset, it follows that the evidence will always support the naturalistic alternative.

So my initial attempt at finding an alternative explanation for the troubling texts in the flood led nowhere.

Ironically, Whitehead had at hand an alternative explanation for societies as principles of continuity in a changing world in his passing remarks in Process and Reality to the effect that «a society is, for each of its members, an environment with some element of order in it, persisting by reason of the genetic relations between its own members» (90).

At your birthing location I will remain with you throughout labor and birth and provide emotional, physical, and evidence - based informational support on various position changes, comfort and relaxation techniques, on the labor and birth process; provide understandable explanations of various medical techniques; implement the birth preference plan that you developed during your pregnancy; facilitate discussions with your doctor / midwife and the medical staff; and provide support and guidance in outlining alternatives if changing the birth preference plan becomes your choice.

«The experimenters did a lot of controls to exclude alternative explanations, although from my experience the results are simply too good,» says Ádám Miklósi, founder of the Family Dog Project at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary.

Thus, even studies that suggest variations in intelligence among mice, birds, and apes all carry the caveat that alternative explanations could be at play.

But alternative explanations have not been ruled out, and other detection techniques have yet to pan out — like waiting for a WIMP to smack into an underground detector such as LUX in South Dakota (pictured above) or creating one at a particle accelerator, for example.

Another tidbit that supports this alternative explanation is that car accidents did not go up in pregnant women who lived in rural areas, says Rebecca Goldin, mathematician at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and director of STATS, a nonprofit statistical watchdog group.

«This offers an alternative explanation for why certain populations might be notoriously bad at delaying gratification or notoriously impulsive, like criminals and addicts,» Michaelson said.

«[The study's findings] are not an alternative to this kind of explanation; they are not an explanation at all.»

Claudia Mancuso, SISSA researcher and first author of the study together with SISSA professors Andrea Lapi and Luigi Danese, suggested a fascinating alternative explanation: «According to the approach we developed at SISSA and published only a few months ago, collision and merging, while possible, are not so relevant as to be able to account for the formation and evolution of galaxies, including the outliers observed in GMS,» says the scientist.

At best, these studies weakly support this hypothesis, and there are equally valid (but more boring) alternative explanations.

However, an alternative explanation is that novice teachers, many of whom quickly leave teaching, happen to be particularly adept at teaching math.

«Alternative scientific views» must take the evidence into account and be able to explain the observed direction, magnitude, and pattern of trends (or potentially be able to do so as more data becomes available) at least as well as the prevailing hypothesis to be considered true alternative exAlternative scientific views» must take the evidence into account and be able to explain the observed direction, magnitude, and pattern of trends (or potentially be able to do so as more data becomes available) at least as well as the prevailing hypothesis to be considered true alternative exalternative explanations.

These facts don't prove causality and they shouldn't end skepticism, but they raise the bar: to be considered seriously, an alternative explanation must match the data at least as well as carbon dioxide does.

Therefore, in order to come up with an alternative explanation, one has to simultaneously show why GHGs are not causing the warming they would be expected to based on physical principles, and at the same time come up with a natural source of temperature change that can match the magnitude and patterns of the observed change.

There is no alternative explanation at present.

An alternative suggestive and original explanation is also offered, in which pressure changes at the core — mantle boundary cause surface deformations and relative sea level variations.

Sentence diagramming may assist us in deciphering the often obscure passages we come across in our profession, or at the very least, give us alternative explanations as to what they might mean.

These observations of impairment can often be effectively challenged at trial by cross-examination of the Crown witnesses, or by presenting alternative explanations for the signs.

Based on almost 20 years of experience at Canada's top law firms, Cyndee Todgham Cherniak has helped numerous clients get their NEXUS privileges reinstated or provide an alternative explanation to be considered when a subsequent application is made.

Findings in this heavily litigated area are often predicated on erroneous clinical assumptions such as: that doctors accept uncritically and at face value what the client says about their history (HE (DRC — credibility and psychiatric reports) Democratic Republic of Congo [2004] UKIAT 00321); that only psychiatrists can diagnose conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (HH (Ethiopia) v SSHD [2007] EWCA Civ 306, [2007] All ER (D) 259 (Mar)-RRB-; and that doctors do not consider alternative explanations, including fabrication when, in fact, this is integrated into medical training and has always been a specified requirement of the IP (para 105 (f)-RRB-.

The commentaries about the inequities and irrationality of the legal class system at the 2017 CLOC Institute were fast and furious: from Richard Susskind's explanation about the importance of the ABS rules (alternative business structures) in the UK in breaking down walls to allow new ways for lawyers to collaborate and share accountability (and profits) with professionals from other disciplines and professions within the same workplace, to the battle cry so clearly articulated by Lucy Bassli (then of Microsoft and now of InnoLegal Services), demanding that we remove the term «non-lawyer» from our daily conversations and certainly from our value playbooks.

As an alternative, you can describe your achievements exclusively with words like increased, created, and improved, with a detailed explanation of what you did precisely, including numbers at any time possible.