Sentences with phrase «developed a hypothesis which»

Sigrunn Eliassen and Christian Jørgensen, two of Mennerat's colleagues, have developed a hypothesis which states that the males pay a little extra attention to the neighbouring nests since they could potentially have offspring there as well.

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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).

He popularized an hypothesis which was already being put forward — that the religion of the Hebrews had developed from a primitive stage centering in Yahweh as a tribal deity to a belief in Yahweh as the God of righteousness and of the whole earth.

This hypothesis holds that success is primarily dependent on intelligence, which must be developed as early as possible.

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.

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

The study supports the «hygiene hypothesis,» which contends that such auto - immune diseases are more common in the developed world where the prevalence of antibiotics and antibacterials reduce children's exposure to microbes.

First author Professor Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Director of Institute of Experimental Genetics at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, who invented the mouse clinic concept, said: «Our findings with regard to the genes examined are now available to the scientific community as a valid data set, which can be downloaded free of charge from the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium) website, and form an excellent basis on which we and other research groups can develop and test new hypotheses.»

The general notion of cohomology, which concerns the topological properties of spaces described by algebraic equations, was itself first developed in the 1920s and 30s, and Weil recognized that it would be needed to prove his hypotheses.

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 order to test their hypothesis, the scientists first developed a small wind tunnel which they used to determine the energy loss of moths during the flight.

Furthermore, the tangles disappeared two days later, bolstering the «amyloid cascade hypothesis,» which posits that the plaques disrupt the cells» ability to clear faulty or unneeded proteins, thereby allowing tangles to develop.

This has developed into a new hypothesis called The «Old Friends Mechanism» which links the tendency to develop allergy to an individual's microbiome (collection of microorganisms living in and on an person's body).

It shows how attempts are now being made in various scientific disciplines to develop viable hypotheses and models through which the findings of sustainability theoreticians can be translated into social, political and economic strategies with practical relevance.

The prize committee noted his radial unit hypothesis, which stated that in the developing cerebral cortex the cells are created at the base of each column, each new cell migrates past its predecessors, and the related «protomap» hypothesis on external signals determining cell function as it grows and forms complex connections.

In fact, the hygiene hypothesis, embraced by many scientists, purports that the reason that autoimmune diseases and atopic disorders (eczema, allergies, asthma) are epidemic in the Western world while virtually absent from developing nations is the hyper - sanitized, antibiotic - ridden society in which we live, which has decimated our gut microflora and thus obliterated their beneficial effects on our immune systems (after all, 70 % of our immune system resides within our gut)(Vighi et al., 2008).

«The findings support the «hygiene hypothesis», which suggests that being exposed to microbes as a child reduces your risk of developing allergies,» he says.

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).

These experiences provide evidence of the self - teaching hypothesis (Share & Stanovich, 1995), which proposes that children develop a variety of reading skills — such as phonemic segmentation, decoding, and vocabulary building — when they engage in high - success reading.

Additional data from interviews and observations over the course of the class might have yielded a more robust understanding of how these enhancements impacted the ways in which teachers worked in the course and made it possible to begin to develop hypotheses about ways in which teachers develop content knowledge on geology in online classes and how course design can best support it.

The idea that prices reflect all the knowledge and expectations of investors is known in academic circles as the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, which was developed by Professor Eugene Fama of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

While one could argue that each artist in About Face channels Kermode's hypothesis when developing artwork, it's also apparent that the figure is the primary vehicle by which this message is conveyed.

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.

I mean, one of the things that I've tried to do over these last four years and will continue to do over the next four years is to make sure that we are promoting the integrity of our scientific process; that not just in the physical and life sciences, but also in fields like psychology and anthropology and economics and political science — all of which are sciences because scholars develop and test hypotheses and subject them to peer review — but in all the sciences, we've got to make sure that we are supporting the idea that they're not subject to politics, that they're not skewed by an agenda, that, as I said before, we make sure that we go where the evidence leads us.

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

So, I think you have to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater as I am sure there are elements which are good, but maybe this hypothesis could be integrated in with current models to develop a better model.

It was while working at NASA on the programme to establish whether there was life on Mars that Lovelock developed the Gaia Hypothesis, which postulates that the biosphere is a self - regulating entity with the capacity to keep healthy by controlling the chemical and physical environment.

That theory, which underpins the anthropogenic global - warming hypothesis and the climate models used by the United Nations, was first proposed and developed in the 19th century.

Additionally, physical phenomena and processes, driven by (1) the net energy that reaches the atmosphere and surface, (2) redistribution of energy content already within the systems, and (3) activities of human kind, directly affect the radiative energy balance from which the hypothesis was developed.

Implications of global change and climate variability for vector - borne diseases: generic approaches... RW Sutherst — International Journal for Parasitology, 1998 — Elsevier... Models are tools with which to develop and test hypotheses.

As with any investigation or evaluative process, the goal is to develop multiple hypotheses about whatever is being investigated and then to apply the data to these various hypotheses and see which comes closest to matching.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

However, in order for such hypotheses to be evaluated, new measures capturing the various processes by which parents monitor chronically ill youth must first be developed and must include items evaluating domains such as direct supervision, surveillance of the youth through checking medical device and supply use, checking with the youth and other family members regarding adherence behavior or health status, gathering information from other adults and so on.