Sentences with phrase «directly tested these hypotheses»

But no one has directly tested these hypotheses.

The new study is the first demonstration of an approach combining ancestral sequence reconstruction with the making of transgenic organisms to directly test hypotheses at multiple biological levels, Siddiq said.

«Because we can now monitor and manipulate the activity of specific sets of neurons, we're getting closer to being able to directly test these hypotheses and working toward strategies to improve human health.»

Studies currently under way are assessing the effects of the intervention on the growth in school bonding over time to more directly test this hypothesis.

Little or no research has directly tested these hypotheses.

Not exact matches

He has directly entered scientific fields with hypotheses suggested by his metaphysics, proposed testable hypotheses, and himself tested them against the empirical evidence.

But the hypothesis that having one big toe is better than having several, biomechanically speaking, has never been directly tested.

«We are very excited to test our hypothesis directly on clinical samples, as it could open new avenues for diagnosis and the development of treatments for progressive MS.»

The approach, Erlanson adds, «has delivered a molecule with sufficiently good properties that Merck will be able to directly test the amyloid hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease.»

Another possible explanation is that non-Hispanic blacks may be less susceptible to the metabolic effects of sugars, although this hypothesis needs to be further tested.12, 54,56 Finally, although observational studies are important in improving our understanding of nutrient - disease relationships, they should not be directly interpreted as evidence of causal relationships without considering other lines of evidence.57

It is our hypothesis that, by putting feedback and aligned materials directly in teachers» hands, our intervention can provide a true test of the impact of coherent, aligned curricula on teachers» practices and students» learning.

We empirically test whether these costs affect production in schools — a hypothesis that follows directly from economic theory on labor frictions — using geocoded data on school locations and state boundaries.

The new research suggests instead that this shift is due to a change in the oscillation frequency of atmospheric carbon dioxide abundances, a hypothesis that can be directly tested by deep drilling on the Antarctic Ice Cap.

We test and reject the hypothesis that this climate oscillation was directly forced by periodic changes in solar activity.

RA Fisher (essentially the inventor of null hypothesis statistical tests) wrote that the significance level should depend on the nature of the hypothesis and the experiment (most particularly your prior beliefs about the plausibility of the two hypotheses under consideration — ironically something that frequentist statistics can not quantify directly).