Sentences with phrase «stronger than theory»

The vibrations are called phonons, and the electron - phonon coupling the researchers measured was 10 times stronger than theory had predicted — making it strong enough to potentially play a role in unconventional superconductivity, which allows materials to conduct electricity with no loss at unexpectedly high temperatures.
These interactions are known to be much weaker than those within the 2D sheets, however, using high - energy synchrotron X-ray radiation to precisely measure a single TiS2 crystal, the researchers were able to show that the interlayer interactions are in fact stronger than theory indicates, and involve significant electron sharing.

Not exact matches

This notion was studied extensively by Eliyahu Goldratt, an Israeli physicist turned management guru who defined the Theory of Constraints, which can be summed up by the ancient adage that no chain is stronger than its weakest link.
The extremely strong gravity of a massive neutron star in orbit with a companion white dwarf star puts competing theories of gravity to a test more stringent than any available before
For by this theory, if a real power of love does not arise at the heart of Evolution, stronger than all individual egotisms and passions, how can the Noosphere ever be stabilized?
Some have advanced the theory that the strong family and in - group ties of the Jewish culture provide a more secure childhood than in other groups, thus producing less need for artificial escape.
There is a theory that it is much better to introduce up and coming young players into a strong side so that they get a taste of what playing in the first team will be like, rather than struggling in a disjointed display because the whole team are unused to playing together.
This is the strongest confirmation yet of cosmic inflation theories, which say the universe expanded by 100 trillion trillion times, in less than the blink of an eye.
Jaume Bertranpetit of the University of Barcelona estimates that the mutant gene has survived for more than 2500 generations, adding strong support to the theory that people carrying one copy of the gene gain some evolutionary advantage from it.
While the strong sigma or covalent bonds were explained by the new theories of quantum mechanics, hydrogen bonds were seen as nothing more than an electrostatic attraction between charged particles and were explained according the principles of classical physics.
In those theories, the gravity from ordinary matter remains strong at greater distances than predicted by Newton and Einstein, which prevents galaxies from flying apart.
«If you understand the rationale behind a doctor's recommendation, then you're more likely to embrace it and autonomously engage in a treatment,» says Ryan, one of the founders of self - determination theory, which posits that internal sources of motivation are stronger than external rewards or threats.
A report in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association (vol 268, p 1275) lends strong evidence to the theory that the age of the eggs is a much more important factor in human fertility than the age of the uterus.
Those theories suggest that, since there is much more dark matter in the universe than visible matter, galaxies will form where large concentrations of dark matter (and hence stronger gravity) are present.
Evolutionary theory suggests that parasites and pathogens should evolve more rapidly than their hosts because they tend to have shorter generation times and often experience strong selection.
Hurricanes feed off warm water and the theory that rising ocean temperatures are making them stronger than they would otherwise have been has been around for a long time.
The program teaches students more than 100 dietary theories with a strong focus on bio individuality, and also teaches students the business skills necessary to start their own coaching business.
Stronger in theory than in execution, Garrity's Borealis boasts a dense script and meaningful direction which is somewhat undermined by flawed character motivation, contrived plot developments, and a slogging comedy - crime arc.
I can see how in theory or on paper while being developed, that this looked like a strong action drama, but ultimately it turned out to be a borderline less than average genre film.
The theory behind de-risking glide paths would suggest that the correlation between funded ratio and hedge ratio should be stronger than that between funded ratio and fixed income allocation.
In theory, certain kinds of construction lend themselves to being even stronger than standard construction — but that's only if they're done properly.
But if we happened to find strong evidence that, say 1K years ago temperatures were as high or higher than the ones predicted for the coming decades (not implausible as yet) we would have at least 2 major problems with the AGW theory: 1) According to the forcings commonly considered (for example in Crowley's data set) there would be no explanation for such a phenomenon.
I don't think many folks who have observed Heartland from afar would say that Heartland has any special focus on or animus towards Gleick (more than they might have for any other strong advocate of catastrophic man - made global warming theory).
The other 80 % though does disprove the theory that the earth is not warming, that moonbeams are a stronger influence on climate than CO2 etc. etc..
The other 80 % [in mainstream climate science] though does disprove the theory that the earth is not warming, that moonbeams are a stronger influence on climate than CO2 etc. etc..
AGW theory gives a strong position to CO2 concentration, more than I think is justified.
However, a contradictory theory postulates sustained La Niña conditions due to stronger warming of the West Equatorial Pacific than the East, causing enhanced easterly winds and reinforcing the up - welling of cold water in the EEP (56).
My major critique of the NIPCC report concerns their inability to look at the relative uncertainties of different explanations / hypotheses: They pretend that their pet pieve theories are somehow more certain (ie supported by stronger evidence) than the mainstream theories.
His wording that the data is wrong and the models / theory are right on this particular point is even stronger than mine (wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/17/richard-lindzen-a-case-against-precipitous-climate-action/):
Any theory attributing the entire cooling to ozone loss must then assume that cooling to be far stronger than expected by theoretical and observational constraints, and therefore assume the cooling is statistically improbable given those constraints.
Cognitive learning theory advises that first - year legal writing and analysis students are cognitively overloaded and that requiring students to memorize and conquer, all at once, all the attributes of a strong legal analysis and organization increases the extrinsic load rather than advancing learning.
One theory is that greater readability merely serves as a proxy for «better» arguments — that is, arguments that rest on stronger factual and legal grounds.113 Under this theory, one party's brief is more readable than the opposing party's brief because the first party has the stronger argument at the outset.
Part - time applicant pools tend to be more localized, whereas full - time applicant pools, even for «regional» or «local» law schools tend to be more national to some extent, meaning, in theory, that full time programs ought to be able to attract greater numbers of stronger students than part - time programs.
In theory, certain kinds of construction lend themselves to being even stronger than standard construction — but that's only if they're done properly.
[1][3] There was initially a strong influence from psychoanalysis (most of the early founders of the field had psychoanalytic backgrounds) and social psychiatry, and later from learning theory and behavior therapy - and significantly, these clinicians began to articulate various theories about the nature and functioning of the family as an entity that was more than a mere aggregation of individuals.
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