Sentences with phrase «hypotheses were tested using»

Set point, differentiation, and genetic maturation / environmental modulation hypotheses were tested using a biometric decomposition of intercepts and slopes.

Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling with a latent variable interaction estimated in Mplus version 7.3 (Muthén and Muthén 1998 — 2012).

Hypotheses were tested using bivariate correlation procedures and regression analyses.

The hypothesis was tested using an integrative approach at the isolated organ, cellular and molecular levels, in a longitudinal study in rats.

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The book teaches you to treat your business ideas as hypotheses, and test them using an MVP, which is, the least amount necessary to prove if your idea has a market or not.

Pure cold calling won't cut it, though — you have to use an experimental mindset that tests hypotheses with data, which in turn ensures that what you prove out is intentional, repeatable and (most importantly of all) scaleable.

We then test our hypothesis that African Americans» reliance on automobiles is a cause of their substantially higher use of Chapter 13.

Grounded Theory Interviews: this can be used when there is a need to test and validate hypotheses on specific «grounded» observations or data.

The evidence is simply overwhelming and of various different types: the fossil record, the genetic code, experimental confirmations, structures in living organisms which are of no current use but once were, faulty «designs» that are explained by «blind evolution» but that no sentient being would create, predictions that are tested based one the hypothesis it has occurred etc..

So what, exactly, are the testing methods and hypotheses used to determine «intelligent design?».

Coppedge had no business bringing his religious views into the workplace when the purpose of that workplace is to analyze data and test hypotheses using the scientific method.

You might not be aware, but the educational system teaches kids to think for themselves, ask questions, scrutinize the validity of an explanation or an authority figure, and use inductive and deductive reasoning as a part of a process to ask questions, analyze and test a hypothesis.

To test our hypothesis that studies with food industry sponsorship would be more likely to have favorable conclusions than those without industry sponsorship, we conducted a meta - analysis using Review Manager 5.3 software (Cochrane Collaboration).

The geologists used numerical models to test the hypothesis that the Mediterranean dried up: they reproduced the history of the charging and discharging of the weight of water and sediment in the Mediterranean as it was drying out.

To accurately test the hypothesis of a lower risk of recurrence with HRT, a new study led by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital published in European Urology Focus, performed a systematic review and meta - analysis, pooling available data, to assess whether an improved risk of recurrence could be demonstrated using HRT compared with CRT, in addition to assessing the relative impact of these two treatments on bladder and rectal function.

The researchers are now using functional neuroimaging to test the «four components» cognitive flexibility hypothesis.

To test the hypothesis that the web is a primary driver of rising polarization, Shapiro and his coauthors used data from the American National Election Study (ANES), a nationally representative, face - to - face survey of the voting - age population that has been conducted both pre - and post-election since 1948.

They can then be used to test drug interventions or to test hypotheses about the causes of disease.

To test this hypothesis, the possible contribution of marine fish in the diet of these carnivores was evaluated using carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotopes in faunal bone collagen, comparing these isotopic signatures between predators and their potential prey.

In addition to much needed conservation efforts, Detwiler and her team also are working to solve the evolutionary puzzle of the Dryas monkey using genomic research to test the hypothesis that this species is a close relative of the Vervet monkey.

They were able to use the data gathered to test previous hypotheses drawn from archaeological and historical data, and from studies of modern DNA.

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.

He thrives on the challenge of testing the models to check if his hypotheses are correct by collaborating with experimentalists who use the models in their research.

McDowall saw that the effect of these laws would give him a laboratory in which to test the arms - race hypothesis: he could find out whether criminals, knowing their victims are more likely to be armed with handguns, are more likely to use guns themselves.

But in most such instances the statistics applied in court have been primarily the standard type that scientists use to test hypotheses (producing numbers for gauging «statistical significance»).

They tested this hypothesis using a multitasking exercise that was performed by 15 humans and 12 pigeons.

The future will be using these tools combined with large shared data sets to test fundamental hypotheses about the evolution and distribution of plants and animals,» says Dr. Laurence J. Dorr, Chair of the Smithsonian Department of Botany and co-author of the study.

The study aimed to test the hypothesis that data from extant birds could be used to predict the incubation behaviour of Theropods, the group of carnivorous dinosaurs from which birds descended.

Second, this Research Framework should not be used to restrict alternative approaches to hypothesis testing that do not employ biomarkers... biomarker - based research should not be considered a template for all research into age - related cognitive impairment and dementia.»

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.

We note that this does not correct for multiple hypothesis testing, however, our cutoff (P < 0.0001) is higher than previous studies that have used this method (Green et al. 2010; Freedman et al. 2014; Li et al. 2016).

Finally, hypotheses «fetus affected» versus «fetus unaffected» are tested from cumulated experiments using a dedicated statistical model.

Finally, Pollard wants to close the loop by incorporating code - writing approaches, such as genome editing using CRISPR - based approaches and synthetic biology, which are needed to test and validate hypotheses and could also provide novel therapies.

In their study Loeken and her group, including Yichao Wu, Marta Viana, and Shoba Thirumangalathu, used mice and cell lines to test their hypothesis that AMPK might be stimulated in the embryo and that stimulation of AMPK was responsible for blocking Pax3 expression and causing neural tube defects in response to high glucose.

To test this hypothesis, we follow the movement of proteins inside axons in real time, using advanced microscopy techniques that allow us to determine in detail whether this movement is impaired as an axon ages.

Targeted phenotypes can be purposely induced by using specific diets, allowing the researcher to test their hypotheses.

Previous work speculated that microbes are the actual producers of the chemical compounds used in mammalian communication, and Theis now had the genetic tools to test this hypothesis.

«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.

By using a reliable, consistent, and remotely controlled robotic platform, we test the hypothesis that, at a constant swimming velocity, a bioinspired robotic fish is able to elicit attraction in a live fish as a consequence of the visual and flow cues it offers.

As the lakes appear to be a proxy for local climate pulses, we use the lake index to explicitly test the pulsed climate variability hypothesis [15] by evaluating the relationship between paleoclimate and hominin evolution.

To test this hypothesis, immunofluorescent staining was performed using a STAT6 monoclonal antibody that recognizes 650 — 765 aa of unphosphorylated STAT6.

To begin to test this hypothesis, we first used primary cultures of the E14 rat ventral midbrain (VM), which are an experimental tractable model of mDA neurons that are widely used to study the molecular mechanisms regulating mDA neurite growth [18].

After adjustment for covariates, first trimester influenza vaccination was associated with an increased risk of ASD (AHR, 1.20 [95 % CI, 1.04 - 1.39], P =.01); however, adjusting for the multiplicity of hypotheses tested (n = 8) using the Bonferroni correction suggests that this association could be due to chance (P =.10).

These hypotheses will be tested in wet lab experiments to initiate a repetitive cycle resulting in improved identification of molecular mechanisms of human aging using mathematical analysis.

The hypotheses were then tested empirically in a variety of different study populations, including U.S. military veterans of the Vietnam war, college fraternity and sorority members who had undergone hazing, English Premier League football fans, martial arts practitioners of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu who sometimes use painful belt - whipping, and twins to examine the level of fusion.

But since there hasn't been much research about how happy and unhappy people value societal events (as opposed to personal events), they wanted to test their hypothesis — using the Olympics as a theoretical scenario.

The hypothesis was tested making use of data collected from a study of 103 randomly allocated college roommate pairs who had just begun college.

The hypothesis I am testing today is that it is the manufacturing process used in cheap mass produced cartonized egg whites that is the problem.

Number two would be that our urine pH is an accurate indicator of our health, and by extension, we can use these urine test strips that proponents of the hypothesis recommend and determine, first of all, whether our blood is acidic by measuring our urine acidity, and second of all, by extension, we can use these urine test strips to determine our health.

According to what you wrote, he used animals as test subjects to justify his hypothesis, and I know it's quite impossible to do it otherwise, however, that action alone is a great offense to the philosophy of veganism.