Sentences with phrase «test hypotheses at»

The new study is the first demonstration of an approach combining ancestral sequence reconstruction with the making of transgenic organisms to directly test hypotheses at multiple biological levels, Siddiq said.

Not exact matches

A couple of B - school professors decided to test the hypothesis by reviewing employee promotions and sales records at over 200 companies.

Our mantra, here at The Good, is «Develop a hypothesis, test the theory, observe results, and test again.»

At a web startup, our board meetings were discussions of the real world results of testing our hypotheses from Customer Discovery.

We are building our business plans through testing hypotheses, and some of them are really starting to look like viable businesses: at least some of us plan to take them «live.»

After reading Ronald's paper I immediately wanted to test the hypothesis that the model is good at predicting the 1 - day ahead direction of returns.

It is, however, just a hypothesis at this point with tests that point to the possibility.

According to Whitehead, this theory was arrived at by «the method of descriptive generalization» and is to be thought of as a «working hypothesis» finally to be tested by reference to empirical fact (AI chapter 15).

Because nearly every large and modern society has been affiliated with at least one religion, there is no counterfactual available to test your hypothesis.

If we don't even have the slightest idea how many hypotheses there are to approach and try to figure out how to test, why assume any hypothesis at all?

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.

For motor development, we can not reject the null hypothesis, even though we found borderline significant trends towards lower scores on motor developmental tests both at 13 months, and at 5 years of age (balance score).

«This study has greatly helped us understand how the Ebola virus replicates and should at least allow us to test some new drug leads and hypothesis,» he said.

As I argued, to test evolutionary psychology's hypothesis, we need to look at physically abused children, not sexually abused children or children who were the victims of very broadly defined neglect.

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.»

That should let them «test various hypotheses about why the Challenger Deep behaves so strangely,» says expedition chief scientist Sun Jinlong, a marine geophysicist at the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology in Guangzhou, China.

To test her hypothesis, she visited the laboratory of Gottfried Schatz at the University of Basel, Switzerland, with a short - term fellowship from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) and support from the host laboratory.

Recognizing an opportunity to test that hypothesis, Arens eagerly accepted Horner's invitation to participate in the effort at Hell Creek.

«We wanted to test the hypothesis that both the extent of the liver resection and the location or type of colorectal resection influence the overall risk and patient outcomes associated with these operations,» says the article's first author, Christopher Shubert, M.D., who is also a surgeon and Kern Scholar at Mayo Clinic.

We tested this hypothesis in an analysis of over 2,000 species of birds, looking at whether species were cooperative and where they lived.

Ding joined the faculty at UCR in December of 2000 to test the other half of his hypothesis: does the B2 protein of Flock house virus suppress RNAi in its animal host?

First author Professor Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Director of Institute of Experimental Genetics at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, who invented the mouse clinic concept, said: «Our findings with regard to the genes examined are now available to the scientific community as a valid data set, which can be downloaded free of charge from the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium) website, and form an excellent basis on which we and other research groups can develop and test new hypotheses.»

Lesley Duncan, one of Schaller's graduate students at the University of British Columbia, tested this hypothesis by showing a group of test subjects pictures of two men.

I've run certain clinical trials but mostly at this point partner with some of my clinical colleagues to test the hypotheses generated in the lab in the clinic, in actual patients, and then actually try to analyze tumors from those patients to see whether the patterns that we identified in the laboratory in fact hold true in patients.

Science is a set of methods aimed at testing hypotheses and building theories.

«With this study we were able to test all these different hypotheses at once.

A new tool in development by computational biologists at Baylor College of Medicine and analytics experts at IBM research and tested as a «proof - of - principle» may one day help researchers mine all public medical literature and formulate hypotheses that promise the greatest reward when pursuing new scientific studies.

To test the moa hypothesis, Kevin C. Burns, an evolutionary ecologist at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and colleagues compared lancewood leaves with those from the similar tree Pseudopanax chathamicus.

As a new professor at the University of Washington, Paine tested the green world hypothesis.

Golden, a professor of mathematics at the University of Utah, studies the dynamics of sea ice, and he regularly goes out into the field to test his hypotheses.

The real Sir Isaac Newton serves as a classic example of how the scientific method involves forming hypotheses, then testing them by looking at data and experiments.

Douglas Higgs, a former RARDE scientist who had been legally represented at the inquiry and had conceded the unreliability of the «kneading» hypothesis, went back on this concession and joined RARDE in asking for another round of tests.

The RARDE, which had not accepted May's invitation to be legally represented at the first stage of the inquiry, objected that the original tests by Burns, which had ruled out the kneading hypothesis, might themselves have involved an element of involuntary contamination and therefore been unreliable.

Scientists at Georgia State University have rewired the neural circuit of one species and given it the connections of another species to test a hypothesis about the evolution of neural circuits and behavior.

A more subtle test of the sexual selection hypothesis for humor depends on what women want when they are at their most fertile — during ovulation.

To test this hypothesis, the research team, which also includes Francis McCubbin from the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico and Brian Monteleone of WHOI, utilized meteorite samples provided by NASA from the asteroid 4 - Vesta.

In a new test of this cooking hypothesis, Herculano - Houzel and her graduate student, Karina Fonseca - Azevedo, now a neuroscientist at the National Institute of Translational Neuroscience in São Paulo, Brazil, decided to see if a diet of raw food inherently put limits on how large a primate's brain or body could grow.

The definition illustrates why the concept makes even very smart people reach for their liquor cabinets: «In statistical hypothesis testing, the p - value is the probability of obtaining a test statistic at least as extreme as the one that was actually observed, assuming that the null hypothesis is true.»

To definitely test the hypothesis, researchers initiated clinical trials in at - risk populations with low rates of circumcision.

The hypothesis will now be tested in a new study involving 210 children at neonatal units in three Swedish cities; Gothenburg, Lund and Stockholm.

We rejected the hypothesis of an isotropic distribution of these cosmic rays with at least a 99 % confidence level from a prescribed a priori test.

The team tested the hypothesis on two groups of flies: one from tropical North Australia, raised in temperatures of 26 degrees Celsius, and another from temperate Tasmania, raised at 15 degrees Celsius.

To test the hypothesis, they examined data from 35,000 biomedical science papers published between 1999 and 2003, each with at least one Harvard author.

To determine how common that had become and to test the hypothesis that higher ratios of FFP to RBCs were associated with improved survival of non-trauma patients, the investigators analyzed data covering all massive transfusions administered at the MGH from 2009 to 2012.

He then describes his analysis of data from particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider to test his hypothesis.

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally.»

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nate McDowell, a renowned forest ecologist and plant physiologist who coauthored a paper in the journal Nature Plants highlighting this research.

Heiko Woith and colleagues at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences say scientists must determine whether the link between the animal behavior and the earthquake is based on clearly defined rules (such as the animal's distance from earthquakes of a certain magnitude), whether the animal behavior has ever been observed and not followed by an earthquake, whether there is a statistical testing hypothesis in place to examine the evidence, and whether the animal population is a healthy, among other questions.

The hypothesis was tested using an integrative approach at the isolated organ, cellular and molecular levels, in a longitudinal study in rats.