Sentences with phrase «proposed as explanations»

Many factors, including broken families, poverty, exposure to violent media, and an increasing amount of pressure on students, have been proposed as explanations for high bullying rates.

Warming destabilises permafrost and marine sediments of methane gas hydrates in some regions according to some model simulations (Denman et al., 2007 Section 7.4.1.2), as has been proposed as an explanation for the rapid warming that occurred during the Palaeocene / Eocene thermal maximum (Dickens, 2001; Archer and Buffett, 2005).

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Leptophilic dark matter was proposed as a viable explanation for this discrepancy since exclusions from other experiments would not directly apply.

[2] Among scientists who find the evidence persuasive, a variety of natural explanations have been proposed, such as the anthropic principle along with multiple universes.

I would propose another explanation» that our humanity is often subject to an aversion to particularity, especially as regards the deepest questions of the heart.

If we turn back to the Whiteheadian explanation proposed above, we can account for both sets of data as long as we remember that degrees of alertness do not measure degrees of consciousness (witness the absent minded professor, «lost in thought»).

Our proposed explanation can also help us make sense of the experience of the general acceleration of time as one grows older.

a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural, in contrast to well - established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact.

Over the centuries, pastors and theologians have proposed dozens of explanations as to why this happens.

Their purpose is then to invoke experience as illustrative of a theistic explanation one has to propose for it.

Big Bang Theory, Theory of Evolution So let me EDUCATE you all: THEORY: «a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation, in contrast to well - established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact.»

Alexander's life and thought was against the closures of totalism — whether political and ideological totalism, as in totalitarianism, or the total explanations proposed by theology or philosophy.

Or consider the explanations for religious belief proposed by evolutionary psychologists, now recognised by most philosophers of biology as involving more theoretical assumptions than empirical evidence.

Here is the current proposed criterion that deals with «shade» or forest cover, with explanations and clarifications given as footnotes.

This is a good bluffer's guide as the author looks at all the explanations and arguments and the remedies proposed.

I am responding to the letter sent from one of our public representatives, Roger Friedman, as to his explanation of his public vote on the proposed Stewart's expansion.

Second, Hancock's impact hypothesis comes from scientists who first proposed it in 2007 as an explanation for the North American megafaunal extinction around that time and has been the subject of vigorous scientific debate.

But the explanation's main problem is shared by other threats proposed as a single cause of CCD.

Several explanations for this widening have been proposed, such as radiative forcing due to greenhouse gas increase and stratospheric ozone depletion.

In 1543 Copernicus gave the establishment of his day a bloody nose by proposing that the best explanation for the observed motions of the stars and planets was to picture the sun, not Earth, as the center of known space.

But some lasted up to 2 seconds, Freund says — a length that strongly suggests that the pulses weren't triggered by lightning, either nearby or far away, which some critics of his model have proposed as an alternative explanation.

This «magnetic shock acceleration» model was first proposed by the great physicist Enrico Fermi as an explanation for the acceleration of most cosmic rays.

With this, two new phenomena have been discovered: the fast flares in the early light curve seen from days 9 - 15 (which have no proposed explanation) and the optical dips seen out of eclipse from days 41 - 61 (likely caused by raised rims of the accretion disk occulting the bright inner regions of the disk as seen over specific orbital phases).

The discovery instantly killed off a large number of the previously proposed models — at least, as explanations for this particular FRB.

Most explanations propose changes in oceanic processes as the cause for low glacial CO2 concentrations.

Magnetars were proposed in 1992 as a theoretical explanation for objects that repeatedly emit bursts of gamma - rays.

The model shown in Figure 9B also illustrates the proposed explanation for the positive offset of Ωa values (for a given fSIM) from the Beaufort Sea as compared to the Canada Basin (Figure 8).

From orbit, pictures have shown ancient gullies that were likely worn down by water flow, although other explanations, such as lava, have been proposed as well.

If tainted chicken jerky isn't the «root cause» of all these stories, all with the same theme, what do you propose as an alternative explanation.

Other explanations have been proposed such as the ocean cooling effect of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation or the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.

there are only two explanations I can see for proposing that your model represents «business as usual»: either you are incompetent or you are being deceitful.

You constantly complain that your IQ is being underestimated, yet there are only two explanations I can see for proposing that your model represents «business as usual»: either you are incompetent or you are being deceitful.

Furthermore, wikipedia defines a hypothesis as «a proposed explanation for an observable phenomenon.»

I now shake my head as explanation after explanation are proposed to explain the pause, and yet can only find one explanation offered for the warming.

One probable explanation could be that an extended East Siberian Chukchi Ice Sheet (ESCIS) as proposed by Niessen et al. 53 has existed at this time (Fig. 5a).

This was proposed by Lamarche et al 1984 as an explanation for the growth trend that had been observed at the high elevation sites.

After the Bipartisan Policy Center event, PolluterWatch activists asked Jeff Holmstead about his consistent opposition to policies and regulations that would require his clients to spend money to reduce their pollution, seeking an explanation for Holmstead's recognition of climate change as contrasted with his denial of proposed solutions.

Clarification from St.Google: Hypothesis = A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation

The proposed explanation (see article: Evidence mounts that Maya did themselves in through deforestation) based on a slight change in albedo after deforestation and a corresponding decrease in solar energy available for convection does not make sense to us (although as we understand this work has not yet been published so we could not read it in detail).

Informed consent is defined by the Rules as, «the agreement by a person to a proposed course of conduct after the lawyer has communicated adequate information and explanation about the material risks of and reasonably available alternatives to the proposed course of conduct.»

In early attachment theory, behavioural drive reduction was proposed by Dollard and Miller (1950) as an explanation of the mechanisms behind early attachment in infants.

Observational learning has been proposed as an important explanation for the fact that adolescents» and young adults» sexual behaviors and attitudes toward sexuality are often very similar to those of their friends.