One hypothesis is that it's a natural phenomenon, that the starfish naturally undergo population fluctuations following particularly good spawning years.

有一种假说认为，这是一种自然现象；在特别适合产卵的那几年后，刺冠海星自然会经历种群数量的波动。

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In the following sections, we verify our hypothesis and evaluate the role of climate change on war outbreak and population decline with empirical data at global and continental scales.

在以下的章节中，我们将以实证数据在大陆和全球的范围内验证验证我们的假说，评价气候变化对于战争爆发和人口下降的影响作用。

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The alternative hypothesis -- that a difference in proportions exists in the population -- is statistically more likely to be true.

另一种假设 — 对象总体中存在着比例差异 — 在统计上可能更正确。

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In essence, I believe this was not a failure of the drug or the mechanism but a failure of us as investigators to make sure we had sufficient disease in our population upon which to test our hypothesis--somewhat akin to trying to show one antibiotic is better than another or even a placebo, but selecting a population with no infection!

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