Sentences with phrase «further test their hypothesis»

To further test their hypothesis, the researchers delivered antibiotics for different periods, exposing three different bacteria populations to repeated daily antibiotic exposures lasting 3, 5, or 8 hours.

Guessing that the reduced ability to control force in patients with PD was related to decreased dopamine — which makes it harder to «recruit» neurons for a particular task — the researchers devised a brain stimulation experiment to further test their hypothesis.

These decisions will be based on many factors such as vaccine potency and the ability to further test the hypotheses generated by the RV144 trials.

Not exact matches

Scientists have lots of hypothesis about what might or might not have caused the Big Bang, but so far none of them have been tested.

EaSeq offers a far more visual and intuitive alternative, which makes it possible for biomedical researchers to study and test hypotheses using their own data.

The researchers tested their hypothesis further by examining genetically modified mice that do not possess the Akt1 pathway.

Further research is needed to test this hypothesis, they said.

Ultimately, she hopes that the tool can go even further in the content it extracts, perhaps by even suggesting hypotheses for researchers to test.

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

A group of research scientists from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste used a simulation model that is far more accurate than previously used, and carried out an experiment to test a hypothesis about the behaviour of hydrogen that is splitting the scientific community.

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

The researchers are now conducting further studies to test that hypothesis.

Hersoug has so far conducted just one test of his hypothesis, an experiment in which six young men were placed in special climate rooms for seven hours.

«The hypothesis to be tested experimentally in ADAPT was whether longer - lasting selective pressure by UV radiation results in a higher UV resistance, as well as in a higher resistance against further «extreme» environmental factors that exist in space,» Wassmann said.

Experiments are designed to test the hypothesis that visual and somatosensory processing are modulated in specific ways with recent motor behaviour and are further modified after motor learning.

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

Niche modeling with finer - scaled sampling and further genetic analysis is needed to test our hypothesis.

Since he has not tested or even discussed this hypothesis in any of his scientific work as far as I know, and does not produce or refer to any supporting evidence in this newspaper article, I with my knowledge in geology can not see that what he says has any connection with the geological and climate record.

For highly important public issues we need a science policy that further formally allocates a substantial portion of funding to «Red teams» to test hypotheses and generate the evidence, and analyses which such a tentative science court could weigh.

We have far more data about increasing CO2 than increasing water vapor, hence if we want to test this hypothesis by looking for a correlation between global warming and the combined effect of CO2 and H2O, a correlation with CO2 alone is more feasible than one involving water vapour.

Also data mining for hypotheses to test makes for complications when doing the statistical testing, and further, the «texas sharpshooting» appears to me to be different than mining data.

While it's one thing, he says, to employ ecological models to generate hypothesis for further testing, it's another matter entirely to present the results of these modeling exercises as predictions that policy makers and the public then interpret as forecasts.

Simplistic without the grace of simplicity, generality - strewen without general applicability, relying on inference from dataset rather than mathematical analyses of data, following none of the usual rules of hypothesis testing nor verifiability, unvalidated, sometimes specious and occasionally jumping from the subject to throw in a slide about a red dot on a grid that could only be described as propaganda, unless one chooses to describe it as false, the «Pope Theory» is far from infallible.

Scientific understanding that allows for hypothesis testing however is deserving of more respect than understandings that merely seeks to describe and perhaps project (without testing) what's been observed so far.

«Models» are tools to help scientists understand patterns, and formulate hypotheses for further testing.

Further, owing to the emphasis on forecasting, this community does not operate in the same way that atmospheric science researchers (outside the forecasting community) operate in terms of hypothesis testing etc., which is why I focused the article in terms of laying out the scientific method, fallacies, etc. (note all of the fallacies came from the hurricane forecasting community via the media; I included specific citations in the 2nd version of the paper, but this was also nixed).

In a nustshell scientific method comprises (where an hypothesis is ultimately successfully tested) a process of development of a testable hypothesis, tests by experiment, observations, confirmation and finally further tests of the predictive power of the theory.

Further, if any test carried out in pursuance of their instruction cast any doubt on, or appeared relevant to the hypothesis set by their instructions, they should regard themselves as being under a duty to draw that to the attention of the court and the parties.

OBJECTIVE: To test the a priori hypothesis that this genetic variant predicts early - onset antisocial behavior in a high - risk sample and further examine the effects of birth weight, an environmentally influenced index of prenatal adversity previously linked to childhood disruptive behaviors and genotype x birth weight interaction.

This approach and the threshold of 0.2 allows us to test our hypothesis that T cell DNA methylation is associated with aggression trajectory and to generate further hypotheses about the functions of genes affected by the associated methylation changes.

As there were no direct effects of helping motivation on ICP outcomes in this SEM model, no mediation models were further tested (hypothesis 4).

Take your statement further and reduce the numbers until there is only one salesperson and you get a monopoly or better yet use the industry itself as a test of your hypothesis — fewer properties for sale mean higher prices.