Sentences with phrase «hypothesis of the present study»

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Curiously, this position is similar to that of the great Julius Wellhausen, whose Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel, published over a century ago, put the documentary hypothesis on a firm footing and set the agenda of Old Testament studies down to the present.

The examiners were not aware of information concerning infant feeding, nor of the hypotheses tested in the present study.

In the present study we tested the hypothesis that a 5 - wk period of increased dietary protein results in a lower plasma glucose concentration in persons with mild, untreated type 2 diabetes.

The findings presented here differ from those of two previous studies that examine the same hypothesis for North Carolina charter schools.

To their credit, the researchers who conducted the Providence study are aware of these constraints and present a number of hypotheses warranting further study with a research design supporting causal inferencing.

Although this is the first prospective longitudinal study to investigate this mediational hypothesis in a systematic manner, our findings are consistent with previous findings indicating that disruption of interpersonal relationships is a predominant risk factor for suicide10, 13,49 and that interpersonal conflict or separation during adulthood partially mediated an association between neglectful overprotective parenting and subsequent suicide attempts.23 The present findings are also consistent with research indicating that stressful life events mediated the association between childhood adversities and suicidal behavior during adolescence or early adulthood, 8 that suicide is multidetermined, 2 and that youths who experience numerous adversities during childhood and adolescence are at a particularly elevated risk for suicide.18, 22,49

In the study presented here, we tested the hypothesis that a trajectory of chronic physical aggression during childhood would be associated with a distinct DNA methylation profile during adulthood.

With regard to the empathy - relevant traits and reactions that we use as predictors of spousal support in the present study, we propose two general hypotheses and two research questions:

In the present study Gross» (2001) model of emotion regulation is used to generate hypotheses regarding the relative contribution of two specific types of deficits in emotion regulation, inhibited and disinhibited expression of negative emotion, to individual differences in depressive symptoms in preadolescent girls.