Sentences with phrase «hypotheses by»

Stattin and Kerr tested their hypotheses by evaluating (a) the parent's knowledge of the youth's daily activities, (b) two methods by which the parent might obtain information about youth activities — the youth's spontaneous disclosure of information to the parent and parental solicitation of information from the youth or other people, (c) the degree of parental (behavioral) «control» or limit setting that occurred, and (d) the youth's involvement in delinquent activities.

For clarifying the ego functions of the university students having a tendency to atypical depression in this study, we tried to examine the above - mentioned hypotheses by comparing the university students having a tendency to atypical depression with those having tendencies to melancholic depression and borderline personality disorder.

«While working on this project with cell biologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, we have been able to verify various hypotheses by selectively replacing specific metabolic products whose synthesis had been blocked by the toxic substance,» Duschl explains.

So it is time for scientists to respect history as a science and for historians to test their historical hypotheses by the comparative method and other techniques.

A couple of B - school professors decided to test the hypothesis by reviewing employee promotions and sales records at over 200 companies.

Back in the lab, Endler proved his hypothesis by creating guppy populations that over just 10 generations adapted to the different environmental challenges and advantages he introduced.

Test hypothesis by doing an experiment; see if predictions match results 5.

4) Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment: What is your test?

(See the «Liar, Lunatic, or Lord» hypothesis by C.S. Lewis)---- I can't wait to hear Societyvs take down C.S. Lewis; NOT.

(See the «Liar, Lunatic, or Lord» hypothesis by C.S. Lewis)

Social science would test this hypothesis by careful comparison of parallel situations.

Assuming a god hypothesis doesn't do us any good unless we can begin to query the universe about that hypothesis by measurement (testing smaller, supporting hypotheses and performing experiments).

They tested their hypothesis by selecting 600 babies deemed high risk for peanut allergies, and giving half Bamba on a regular basis, while the other half avoided peanut - based foods altogether.

-LCB- That's the basis for a hypothesis by the way. -RCB-

Now they try to salvage their insecurity hypothesis by suggesting that maybe the really screwed up single people did not sign up for their study.

But not if they test the hypothesis by keeping their old caffeine and candy - spewing machine in place, sticking a «healthy» machine selling carrot sticks and fruit juice next door, and seeing which performs better, he points out.

Then, test that hypothesis by taking action and talking to people.

In 2012, Ragsdale and his team confirmed a 50 - year - old hypothesis by University of California San Diego neuroscientist Harvey Karten that proposed the DVR performs a similar function to the neocortex, but with dramatically different anatomy.

The researchers confirmed this hypothesis by showing that if they blocked YAP1 they could inhibit stem cells from undergoing self - renewal, forming blood vessel - like structures, and reduce lung cancer cell growth in mice.

We have tested this hypothesis by estimating genomic point mutation rates for protein - coding genes in a range of animal taxa.

Egner and Chiu tested this hypothesis by scanning the brains of participants, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI, a noninvasive, indirect measure of brain activity) as they completed the tasks.

The paper «levels the playing field between the steppe hypothesis and the Anatolian hypothesis by showing that the spread of farming was not the only large migration into Europe,» Skoglund says.

Meltzer and his colleagues tested that hypothesis by investigating the existing stratigraphic and chronological data sets reported in the published scientific literature and accepted as proof by cosmic - impact proponents, to determine if these markers dated to the onset of the Younger Dryas.

Lesley Duncan, one of Schaller's graduate students at the University of British Columbia, tested this hypothesis by showing a group of test subjects pictures of two men.

Alexander Parker, who studies the molecular epidemiology of kidney cancer at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, adds that if the diuretic hypothesis by itself were correct, there should be some protective effect with other diuretics.

He tested his hypothesis by cross-checking carbon - 14 ages for the lava flows against dates included in royal Hawaiian genealogies.

William Murdoch's counterargument, termed the plant self - defense hypothesis by conservation biologist John Terborgh, suggests that food (bottom - up control) has the strongest influence, that the world may be green because not all plants are palatable to herbivores, and that predators are unnecessary for ecosystem regulation.

Jim and I plan to test this hypothesis by studying the mathematical properties that emerge during computer simulations of the neurology of olfaction.

We test a key tenet of this hypothesis by analyzing predatory drill holes in fossil marine shells, which provide a ~ 500 - million - year record of individual predator - prey interactions.

Molins and her team tested that hypothesis by tapping a unique CDC resource — freezers filled with well - characterized blood serum samples.

Now, researchers have confirmed this hypothesis by zapping fly penises with a laser.

The research team tested the hypothesis by transplanting cells onto the surface of mouse bone grafts and studying the cell behavior both in vivo — inside the animal — and in vitro — outside the body.

Roger and his colleagues struck a blow to the old hypothesis by looking for genetic traces of bygone mitochondria lingering in the cell nucleus of select parasites.

He tested this hypothesis by presenting queens from other colonies to workers of the same species.

The researchers tested their hypothesis by injecting a control group of mice with a diabetes - inducing compound called streptozotocin and a second group with the same compound plus ISO - 1, a MIF - inhibitor developed by the team.

We have tested this hypothesis by generating and analyzing a mouse strain that lacks the gene encoding the essential subunit of the N - methyl - d - aspartate (NMDA) receptor NR1, specifically in dentate gyrus granule cells.

They tested the success - breeds - success hypothesis by allocating «successes» to individuals in a randomized fashion.

Paleoanthropologists Jean - Jacques Hublin and Luke Premo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, tested this hypothesis by simulating how mating preferences alter gene flow between individuals in different groups.

We have tested this hypothesis by the following in vitro paradigm.

We will test our hypothesis by applying different mathematical techniques, including dimensionality reduction, state space analyses, and neural network modeling, on our behavioral and neural datasets.

We will test this hypothesis by recording activity in many neurons, in both mice and flies, as the animals navigate a virtual reality environment.

One interesting hypothesis by the study authors looks at the role that thyroid hormone plays in regulating the expression of a gene called the amyloid precursor protein (APP), which has a role in Alzheimer's.

Titled «Initiation of Snowball Earth with volcanic sulfur aerosol emissions,» the study posits a hypothesis by two researchers from Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

Delbo's study provides evidence for the Max Planck Institute's gravitational collapse hypothesis by suggesting the oldest asteroids started out large, and then became smaller through collisions and other destructive forces happening in the ancient solar system.

These theories include: the nebular hypothesis by Emanuel Swedenborg (1734) and later refined by Immanuel Kant (1755) and Pierre - Simon Marquis de Laplace (1796), the planetesimal theory by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin and Forest Noulton (1901), the tidal theory by James H. Jeans (1917), the accretion theory by Otto Schmidt (1944), the protoplanet theory by William Hunter McCrea (1960), the capture theory by Michael Woolfson (1964), and the solar nebular disk theory by Viktor Safronov (1972).

«Our major goal is to test this hypothesis by training women with breast cancer - related weakness using high effort plus moderate intensity exercise vs low effort combined with moderate intensity muscle exercise,» said Dr. Yue.

We tested this hypothesis by crossing DJ -1-deficient mice with mice that have similar amounts of mtDNA damage in their SNpc as aged humans (Polg mutator mice).

We tested this hypothesis by crossing DJ -1-deficient mice with mice that develop similar amounts of mtDNA damage as humans.

We tested this hypothesis by housing 2 - month - old wild - type mice with or without running wheels for 3 — 4 weeks.

We tested this hypothesis by crossing DJ - 1 knockout mice with Polg mutator mice.