Sentences with phrase «in developing a hypothesis»

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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 a phone interview this week, Samuels told me that Google's acquisition of Skybox confirms a hypothesis he developed in the course of his reporting last yeaIn a phone interview this week, Samuels told me that Google's acquisition of Skybox confirms a hypothesis he developed in the course of his reporting last yeain the course of his reporting last year.

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.

One searches in vain for signs that Wallis is aware of the multiple, competing hypotheses which have emerged in the past decade concerning the continued stagnation of the less - developed countries (LDCs).

As Matthew and Luke also contains other material on common that is not found in Mark, a hypothesis was also developed that there was another source, either form oral tradition or from other source documents.

We could then suppose that when Whitehead developed the idea of the consequent nature in the narrow sense, he created the «primordial nature» as a contrasting term This hypothesis would make sense of the present text of PR without supposing that Whitehead began working on the Gifford Lectures only with a noninteractive God little different from the abstract principle of concretion of SMW» (PS 15: 200).

We have four philosopher - scientists in the Dialogues: Margaret Masterman, developing a new theory of language; Christopher Clarke, a mathematical physicist working out a theory of space; Rupert Sheldrake, who has a hypothesis of «formative causation» as supplementing energetic causation; and Jonathan Westphal, who is working on the philosophical psychology of colour perception.

He popularized an hypothesis which was already being put forward — that the religion of the Hebrews had developed from a primitive stage centering in Yahweh as a tribal deity to a belief in Yahweh as the God of righteousness and of the whole earth.

Because nonhuman animals are not, by hypothesis, capable of developing such virtues, it is hard to see why a creator who is both omnipotent and benevolent would make them so susceptible to pain (insofar as warning devices are needed, omnipotence could have fashioned nonpainful ones, as pointed out in the book Catch 22).

However, I would like to see equal interest in developing this research in a way that would influence scientific hypotheses.

who accepts it because he accepts the hypothesis that such a developed Son of man conception existed in pre-Christian Judaism and argues that Jesus referred to this figure as distinct from himself in sayings such as this one.

A different group of individuals have used elements of Velikovky's material, as a source in developing «The Electric Universe» hypothesis.

Researchers examine correlations to develop testable hypotheses that can be examined in non-human animal models.

The workshop was grounded in a recognition that many research ethics issues are relevant to the practice and application of science, from developing hypotheses and designing a protocol, to data management and analysis, to reporting findings and advising others on the uses of the work, and that integrating ethics instruction in the context of performing those various stages of research can be an effective strategy for educating future researchers.

Lovelock was revered in the green movement for developing the Gaia hypothesis, which links everything on earth to a dynamic, organic whole.

Working from this hypothesis, Tononi and his colleagues are trying to develop tools that can monitor levels of consciousness in anesthetized patients.

The study supports the «hygiene hypothesis,» which contends that such auto - immune diseases are more common in the developed world where the prevalence of antibiotics and antibacterials reduce children's exposure to microbes.

While one theory holds that the differences reflect species range — that maybe some species simply don't exist in some countries — our data finding microbes typical of the developing world at the mid-stage in Bangladeshi patients argue against that hypothesis.»

«Our review highlights that studies to date varied widely in hypotheses and research methods, suggesting that the field needs to develop more standardized methods to allow for a clearer understanding of the role of comorbid depression among adolescents in substance abuse treatment,» wrote the researchers in a joint statement.

To give students the tools to read and understand beyond the paper's abstract, Hoskins developed the five - step «CREATE» method to guide educators in teaching their students to read primary literature: consider, read, elucidate the hypothesis, analyze and interpret the data, and think of the next experiment.

''... [T] there is some evidence suggesting that the female advantage in face recognition and the female own - gender bias develop during the early years, but additional research confirming this hypothesis is needed.»

The general notion of cohomology, which concerns the topological properties of spaces described by algebraic equations, was itself first developed in the 1920s and 30s, and Weil recognized that it would be needed to prove his hypotheses.

Students search the literature, develop a hypothesis, test it in the lab, and write it up in a detailed research paper.

In 1963, he finally got the chance to evaluate his hypothesis with a newly developed hormonal blood test.

Scientists finally confirmed this hypothesis in the 1960s when it became possible to develop adequate models of solar atmospheric heating.

In 1981 Oksanen and his colleagues developed the exploitation ecosystems hypothesis (EEH).

Her lab is now developing a model system for Parkinson's disease that includes brain, liver, and gastrointestinal tissue, which she plans to use to investigate the hypothesis that bacteria found in the gut can influence the development of Parkinson's disease.

In Yellowstone, ecologist William Ripple developed his predation risk hypothesis while sitting on a high terrace in the Lamar Valley, where he noticed patchy willow growtIn Yellowstone, ecologist William Ripple developed his predation risk hypothesis while sitting on a high terrace in the Lamar Valley, where he noticed patchy willow growtin the Lamar Valley, where he noticed patchy willow growth.

In the paper, the researchers developed the mathematics for detecting and evaluating hypotheses concerning concerted sound changes and showed that the technique provided vastly superior dated trees for the Turkic language family than previous methods.

The researchers explored the hypothesis that Tamarix has evolved very rapidly in North America, and some populations have developed strategies to be more resilient in the face of D. carinulata's attacks.

To address the hypothesis, the three specific agendas are: 1) Pre-conference agenda: We will create a data - base, develop a network, and invite nano - engineering experts, who have conducted research in the field of medicine; 2) Conference agenda: This workshop will feature invited talks from leading researchers and a poster session with participation from graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

When Linnaeus developed this system in the middle of the 18th century, evolution was still an exotic hypothesis, and fossils were thought to be the remains of animals that hadn't made it onto Noah's ark.

In this case, Christoph was trying to develop hypotheses about what functions are performed by particular patches of tissue in the visual cortex — the part of the brain that receives input from the eyeIn this case, Christoph was trying to develop hypotheses about what functions are performed by particular patches of tissue in the visual cortex — the part of the brain that receives input from the eyein the visual cortex — the part of the brain that receives input from the eyes.

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.

The «broken windows» hypothesis, developed by sociologists James Wilson and George Kelling, supposes that people are most likely to commit criminal and antisocial acts when they see evidence that others have already done so — for example, when they are in public places that show signs of decay and neglect.

«We believed these earthquakes were possible when the hypothesis was first developed in the late 1980s.

«This is an excellent example where hypotheses developed over the years from laboratory experiments and theoretical models could be tested and verified in nature,» said co-author Seewald.

In order to test their hypothesis, the scientists first developed a small wind tunnel which they used to determine the energy loss of moths during the flight.

A planned clinical trial in people with high genetic risk of developing Alzheimer's will put the amyloid hypothesis to the test yet again

Combining satellite observations with ocean numerical modeling, Khazendar and his colleagues developed a hypothesis that reductions in the volume of brine would increase Totten's thinning and melting.

He was not part of the study but is excited to see further research in the area that can better develop that hypothesis.

«The high level of CIRPB expression found in the developing ovaries of marine turtle hatchlings and post-hatchlings also supports our hypothesis that CIRBP may play a role in the molecular pathways of sexual differentiation in marine turtles,» said Tezak.

«The information we have gained about the dynamic changes in ECM composition and its interactions with various secreted growth factor proteins enables us to develop new hypotheses for the activation of stem cells in the lung,» explains Dr. Herbert Schiller, first author of the study.

«An association between a history of chronic diarrhea and the risk of developing RA supports the hypothesis of dysbiosis (a bacterial imbalance in the gut) as a risk factor for the emergence of immune - mediated inflammatory disease,» explained Professor Seror.

Researchers have been debating the «hygiene hypothesis» for years, but it is typically discussed as an explanation for the rising incidence of allergies and asthma in developed countries, not cancer.

The writer Elaine Morgan championed it in her book The Aquatic Ape, and developed the hypothesis further, marshalling a seemingly impressive range of characteristics to support it, including breath control and diet.

Our approach differs from that adopted by Charlesworth [61], [62], who developed mathematical models to formalize the mutation accumulation hypothesis [63] that, together with the antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis [3], [64], may be used to show how senescence can evolve by the accumulation of deleterious alleles through mutation - selection balance at frequencies that increase with their age of onset; such mutations enhance reproductive performance early in life but diminish survival late in life through physiological trade - offs.

Forty years ago the late neuroscience pioneer Jaak Panksepp first proposed the now widely accepted hypothesis that our body's naturally produced opioids — endorphins and closely related enkephalins — are critical to the nurturing bonds that develop between parents and offspring and also between monogamous mates in mammals.

Researchers typically develop hypotheses and work on their own ideas independently of peers in their group.

The availability of centralized facilities will allow rapid access of investigators in NOAC, as well as investigators new to alcohol research, to the tissues and cells needed to test novel and innovative hypotheses without the delay of each PI developing these techniques in each of their own laboratories.