Sentences with phrase «develop a hypothesis for»

Further tests have allowed the authors to develop a hypothesis for this unexpected attitude.

Above, we developed hypotheses for the relations of various dimensions of coparenting with child anxiety and do not repeat these here.

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).

I read through the book again today, and am developing a hypothesis about the nature of the book, but will need to think on it for quite some time, and read through the book several more times to test it.

The conceptuality developed rationalistically provides hypotheses for empirical research that are often strikingly different from the ones actively tested by most scientists, since the latter work, largely unconsciously, out of a different metaphysics.

WH Oddy developed the hypothesis, undertook statistical analyses, wrote the main drafts of the manuscript, and is responsible for correspondence and requests for reprints.

The workshop was grounded in a recognition that many research ethics issues are relevant to the practice and application of science, from developing hypotheses and designing a protocol, to data management and analysis, to reporting findings and advising others on the uses of the work, and that integrating ethics instruction in the context of performing those various stages of research can be an effective strategy for educating future researchers.

To test this hypothesis, Sigurdson and her team developed a transgenic mouse that expresses a prion protein that's identical to the human version — except for a small loop, which they swapped out for the elk prion sequence.

I accept them as starting points for developing hypotheses that we can test, but I'm not happy with the answers we have now, either from science or from religion.»

Lovelock was revered in the green movement for developing the Gaia hypothesis, which links everything on earth to a dynamic, organic whole.

«Investigators have studied this «second - hit» hypothesis for some time, to explain why not everyone with genetic predisposition actually develops the disease.

A major focus of my research is on developing new technologies, based on hypothesis - driven, targeted mass spectrometry, for relieving this bottleneck to testing potential new blood - based diagnostics for detection of cancer.

«Our review highlights that studies to date varied widely in hypotheses and research methods, suggesting that the field needs to develop more standardized methods to allow for a clearer understanding of the role of comorbid depression among adolescents in substance abuse treatment,» wrote the researchers in a joint statement.

«For instance, a paper talking about protein - folding patterns is a great example of the practice of making models to understand phenomena, while preliminary results from a study of black holes might be a great way to ask students to examine what the next steps would be for the researchers, allowing them to develop hypotheses and design possible experiments,» Lake saFor instance, a paper talking about protein - folding patterns is a great example of the practice of making models to understand phenomena, while preliminary results from a study of black holes might be a great way to ask students to examine what the next steps would be for the researchers, allowing them to develop hypotheses and design possible experiments,» Lake safor the researchers, allowing them to develop hypotheses and design possible experiments,» Lake said.

«To test these different hypotheses and determine the phylogenetic position of the new primate, we developed a massive data matrix including more than 1000 anatomical characters and scored for 157 mammals,» says Dr. Jin Meng.

Based on experimentally derived estimates of body mass from the Ileret hominin tracks, the researchers have also inferred the sexes of the multiple individuals who walked across footprint surfaces and, for the two most expansive excavated surfaces, developed hypotheses regarding the structure of these H. erectus groups.

For example, one particularly influential hypothesis argues that horse riding and nomadic herding societies developed during the late second millennium BCE, as a response to drought and a worsening climate.

Her lab is now developing a model system for Parkinson's disease that includes brain, liver, and gastrointestinal tissue, which she plans to use to investigate the hypothesis that bacteria found in the gut can influence the development of Parkinson's disease.

In the paper, the researchers developed the mathematics for detecting and evaluating hypotheses concerning concerted sound changes and showed that the technique provided vastly superior dated trees for the Turkic language family than previous methods.

«To test these different hypotheses and determine the phylogenetic position of the new primate, we developed a massive data matrix including more than 1000 anatomical characters and scored for 157 mammals,» said Dr. Jin Meng.

This has led to a demand for people who can understand data collection techniques and analyze vast amounts of data, categorize the data sets, develop models to test hypotheses that can then be used to develop drugs, and test potential candidates in animals.

The «broken windows» hypothesis, developed by sociologists James Wilson and George Kelling, supposes that people are most likely to commit criminal and antisocial acts when they see evidence that others have already done so — for example, when they are in public places that show signs of decay and neglect.

«The information we have gained about the dynamic changes in ECM composition and its interactions with various secreted growth factor proteins enables us to develop new hypotheses for the activation of stem cells in the lung,» explains Dr. Herbert Schiller, first author of the study.

«An association between a history of chronic diarrhea and the risk of developing RA supports the hypothesis of dysbiosis (a bacterial imbalance in the gut) as a risk factor for the emergence of immune - mediated inflammatory disease,» explained Professor Seror.

Researchers have been debating the «hygiene hypothesis» for years, but it is typically discussed as an explanation for the rising incidence of allergies and asthma in developed countries, not cancer.

The «Hygiene Hypothesis», the idea that increased exposure to microorganisms correlates with a decreased tendency to develop allergy, is one explanation for the rise in prevalence.

The psychiatrists that designed the family emotional health rating scale (OPAS) used major hypotheses regarding the disorder at the time to develop the methods for evaluating the functioning of the family.

In the late 1800s, scientists developed a «seed and soil» hypothesis for cancer.

By contrast, we analyzed our molecular phylogeny with two methods that were developed explicitly for ancestral area reconstruction, and find support for the hypothesis that the most recent common ancestor of living Primates resided in Asia.

The scientists developed a method to visualize the repair process based on genomic sequencing, and with it found good evidence for their hypothesis: In the cells that lacked GreA, less DNA degradation surrounded the sites of DNA breaks.

In this paper, we discuss the proposed hypotheses and develop predictions for policing in chimpanzees, where conflicts often arise among females over access to food [28] or among males over access to females [29] and may result in severe dyadic or even polyadic agonistic interactions [10].

In fact, in our rush to embrace antibacterial cleaning products that allegedly keep us from getting sick, we may actually be minimizing the natural contact our immune system would have with them — contact that's necessary for our bodies to develop natural immunities and antibodies that really keep us healthy (this is called the hygiene hypothesis.)

Even in his obituary for the diet - heart hypothesis, «Diet - Heart: End of an Era» (4), Mann noted that «where societies are developed, the cholesteremia is higher, and the atherosclerosis is more xanthomatous, more obstructive,» and pronounced his confidence that the «evidence indicates that the prevailing hypercholesteremia is contributory and that a major reduction would make a difference in clinical events.»

The following hypotheses were developed: cell phone use would be positively associated with sedentary activity and inversely associated with physical activity; additionally, cell phone use would be inversely associated with cardiorespiratory fitness independent of known correlates (sex, body fat percentage, and self - efficacy for physical activity - an individual's belief in their ability to participate in physical activity).

This vital assistance helps community - based teams build their own internal capacity to develop intervention strategies and materials, specify hypotheses to be tested, conduct rigorous evaluations, participate in a shared data library that serves all FOI projects, and be well - positioned for scalability if their intervention is found to be effective.

Have them develop two different hypotheses and give their reason for selecting the one they choose to evaluate first.

Learners need lots of practice at formulating, as well as testing hypotheses and this problem is an ideal starting point for developing the skills of making and testing hypotheses of their own.

The second is «inquiry - based teaching,» in which students are given a more prominent role in their own learning — for example, by developing their own hypotheses and experiments.

The hypotheses may not be very original or earth - shaking to social scientists themselves — for example, that one can find circumstances in which some phenomenon that has plugged along suddenly undergoes a rapid change (The Tipping Point), or that an idea or plan that comes in a flash may be as good as something developed with a great deal of research and much thought (Blink), or that success may be based more on special opportunities and hard work than on native gifts (the current Outliers).

They teach their students how to question, and how to develop hypotheses and strategies for locating information.

Drawing on The Wallace Foundation's extensive experience working on school leadership in states and districts, this Wallace Perspective suggests a working hypothesis for how to develop principals who can improve teaching and learning.

For what narratives are worth, and we all know how much fiction and wishful thinking goes into them, let me venture the following hypothesis, very sketchily: Bram van Velde's work represents a direct result of the philosophical questioning of the consequences of World War II, which would continue and develop from the fifties to the seventies through the works of Simon Hantaï and Supports / Surfaces, among others.

Fred, I go by what I read: to invite you to develop a reasoned and lightly referenced argument for and against the proposition highlighted in the extract below — «the null hypothesis should now be reversed, thereby placing the burden of proof on showing that there is no human influence»... Both essays would be written «blind» — i.e., without seeing the others» essay — They do not state what the null hypothesis is.

Christy suggests that a climate «Red Team» be developed which would «produce an assessment that expresses legitimate, alternative hypotheses» for climate change.

Eventually, building on that 1988 performance, other climate experts developed a hypothesis that CO2 acted as the proverbial control - knob thermostat for the global temperature.

In developing a scenario for the death of the AAG, the birth of the Southern Ocean, and the transition from Paleogene greenhouse Earth to Neogene icehouse Earth, the neritic record of the northern margin is more in accord with the «Dinocyst biogeographic hypothesis» than with the «Tasman gateway hypothesis.»

For instance, Dr. James Lovelock is a prominent environmentalist, and independent researcher, who in the 1960s was the first scientist to notice that human activity was increasing the concentration of CFCs in the atmosphere, and he also developed the popular Gaia hypothesis.

Non-linear and non-ergodic dynamic systems are not mathematically tractible in classical science, so the challenge is for scientists to become more conversant with QM and chaos theory so as to more realistically model observed phenomena and to test various hypotheses as they are developed.

To enter the competition, the group submitted a Powerpoint presentation with voice - over detailing the evolution of their business model since the idea for Smarty Pants first came up in February 2012, including their hypotheses and assumptions and how they were tested, as well as how the product developed as a result of what they found.

We are in 2013 and have solid data to develop theories and laws of the climate and we should not settle for a hypothesis, particularly on a subject that can greatly affect our llivelihood.