Sentences with phrase «hypothesis was tested in»

The stress generation hypothesis was tested in two different longitudinal studies examining relations between weekly depression symptom ratings and stress levels in adolescents and emerging adults at varied risk for depression.

Accordingly, these hypotheses were tested in a multivariate model using survey data from a nationally representative longitudinal data set.

The following hypotheses were tested in a longitudinal, population - based study: (1) Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms are associated with peer dislike and victimisation; (2) Peer dislike and victimisation increase the risk for subsequent depression; and (3) The effect of ADHD symptoms on depression is partly mediated through peer dislike and victimisation.

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Moving to quantitative: Once you have developed significant hypotheses that can be tested, move to start to test them in a more data - driven manner.

In entrepreneurship, you create a hypothesis (that is, a product), and you test it by marketing it to a potential market.

While he retains his reputation as a boy - genius coder, in reality Zuckerberg is something of a grinder — a 99 % perspiration guy who has surrounded himself with a group of people he respects and with whom he is constantly stress - testing his hypotheses.

Solanezumab, a drug developed by Eli Lilly that also acts on the amyloid hypothesis, failed some key clinical trials, though the company is still testing it in the pre-clinical stages of the disease.

If you think changing specific elements could enhance your design, create another version based on your hypothesis and run an A / B test to see if there is any improvement in checkout rates with the new design.

To be able to test that hypothesis, all of my participants worked for both types of companies, and therefore were in a position to compare the two.

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.

There's much higher levels of interest in testing the hypothesis of a deal's value in terms of technological transformation - skills, products, services, business models.

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..

I agree with your last statement — in time all these hypotheses will be test and validated or discredited.

This camel discovery could well be found to be inaccurate, those involved in the scientific endeavors will question and test this hypothesis until it is proven or discarded.

Thus in this essay I wish merely to propose a provisional outline of the stages in the composition of Process and Reality in the hopes that it might elicit alternate hypotheses, all of which need to be tested against each other.

It does this, not by guess work, and certainly not by indulging personal preference or caprice, but by employing scientific methods of observation, analysis, hypothesis and verification, which are well tested in other fields of study.

I have a lot of faith in science, not in the unscientific assumption that atheists make that reality is purely mechanistic, but in the procedures of testing hypotheses, questioning assumptions, measuring results, replicating experiments, and in general debating and persuading based on actual evidence.

The hypothesis could be tested by examining epigenetic marks in parents of kids with gay versus straight offspring, Rice said.

Their Nobel Prize came in 1962 after the hypothesis was tested and seen to be essentially correct.

Hypotheses are the test systems that show that predicted outcomes are in fact produced.

A theory is an explanatory hypothesis which has passed test after test, and is still the best available explanation of the facts in question.

Based on the verbal and nonverbal data that can be acquired in therapy, the therapist must continually test out various hypotheses as to the real nature of the patient's illness in an attempt to help the patient better cope with his or her world.

To do that we have to establish a way to prove an assumption by: 1) asserting a hypothesis and its components 2) testing the components for substantial supporting evidence, unsupported components go back to be refined 3) either agree after successful testing that in our shared reality the hypothesis is now supported, or that overall unsupported components may mean the hypothesis fails 4) for sake of ease many people call these tested and supported hypotheses «facts», but again that's just so that we can get on with progress.

One can never test an individual hypothesis conclusively in a «crucial experiment»; for if a deduction is not confirmed experimentally, one can not be sure which one, from among the many assumptions on which the deduction was based, was in error.

When hypothesis are proven incorrect or in need of change, science changes them and then tests again to see how it works.

With these she can deal as hypotheses, testing them in all the manners, whether negative or positive, by which hypotheses are ever tested.

In the very act of testing a hypothesis or gathering evidence, it is not possible to doubt or distrust the enterprise itself.

I leave it as an open question whether this perspective is suggestive of new hypotheses that might be tested and whether such a view implies any change in the way in which biologists do biology and formulate theories.

He continues to deduce the consequences of premises in a logical way, but this is in order to test them as hypotheses, not to establish the truth of their consequences.

To illustrate the range of possibilities for this line of research, I will describe a gedanken experiment in which a behavioral assay of feelings is employed to test the hypothesis that atoms are sentient individuals.

What I would look for first, to test the hypothesis of intersensory prehension, is straightforward, reliable evidence of a vague awareness of presences (a feeling of feelings in the environment) in the absence of normal sensory input.

Since our main interest in this book is to demonstrate an intelligible approach to religion, we need not dwell long on such alternative hypotheses which in the nature of the case can not at present be tested.

So I've started testing my pectin - thickening hypothesis on other recipes (like homemade coconut yogurt and citrus curd)(and eventually — if I ever have a proper kitchen again — panna cotta and pots de créme), and hopefully I'll be able to share them with you sometime in the not so distant future.

This hypothesis has enormous implications and should be tested in other settings, including UK maternity units.

To test this hypothesis, WHO is coordinating a randomised controlled trial, implemented in seven countries in Asia and Africa, by researchers from 11 collaborating institutions.

Two weeks before the Systematic Review was published, the Lucas study — which aimed to test a hypothesis that «duration of breast feeding is related to changes in vascular function relevant to the development of cardiovascular disease» — was published in the BMJ alongside 2 press releases and a leader article.

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

Miller tested the hypothesis that life's chemical building blocks were formed when Earth had an atmosphere rich in methane, ammonia, water, and hydrogen.

I have advocated before that one way to mitigate problems with null - hypothesis significance testing is for editors of scientific journals to employ «results blind» decision making in determining whether to publish and make it be known that they are doing so.

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The hypothesis that a Mediterranean diet may reduce the risk of peripheral artery disease (PAD) has never been tested in a randomized trial, according to background information in the article.

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.

«This in many ways has been an exploration, rather than a classic hypothesis testing experiment,» Juniper says.

«How can you test this hypothesis if you are not including any tetanuran in your analysis?»

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.

John Glass, a senior microbiologist in the synthetic biology group at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, puts it this way: If you can imagine a set of genes that will program a cell to do something — anything — then you can make them «at a reasonable cost and test your hypothesis... so it will be possible to attempt to design organisms that have extraordinary properties to solve human needs.»

Their goal is to generate hypotheses and enable their testing and validation, in order to reveal novel mechanistic insights for predictive and / or therapeutic paradigms.

But it's one of the few ways we have to start assembling hypotheses about prehistoric people's beliefs and culture, in the hope that we can one day test them with newer scientific techniques.

We tested the hypothesis that genetic changes in the breakdown of disaccharides — small carbohydrates from sugars and starches — may be associated with increased risk of IBS» says corresponding author Mauro D'Amato from Karolinska Institutet.

In the study conducted as part of the dissertation of Doctoral Candidate Simon Chapman from the University of Turku, a hypothesis was tested according to which the genetic inheritance of grandmothers» X-chromosome affects the level of help they provide to their grandchildren.