"My new hypothesis became that American entrepreneurs are largely hypomanic, " writes Gartner.

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Duffy MacKay, vice president for scientific and regulatory affairs at the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a trade group for the supplement and energy-drink industries, called the study "a new, emerging hypothesis, " but said the researchers were drawing large conclusions from small studies of mice, bacteria and human biomarkers.

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Duffy MacKay, vice president for scientific and regulatory affairs at the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a trade group for the supplement and energy drink industry, called the Nature study "a new, emerging hypothesis, " but said the researchers were drawing large conclusions from small studies of mice, bacteria and human biomarkers.

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Venturing forth in pursuit of learning, even without a hypothesis, can open you up to new information and help you discover nonobvious needs.

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New data, however, will be needed to confirm this hypothesis.

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But now "we are at a historic point where some new ideas are being able to question the orthodoxy of the amyloid hypothesis, " says Zaven Khachaturian, president of Keep Memory Alive in Las Vegas and former head of Alzheimer's research at the National Institutes of Health.

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Our hypothesis at the time was this was all about young people and their penchant for new technology.

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With the recent explosion in behavioral finance and the shattering of our absolute trust of the efficient market hypothesis, Shiller explains Dodd-Frank and regulators in general is still lacking in recognizing our new understanding of the financial landscape.

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At first embraced by the New Age and environmental movement but almost totally ignored by the scientific community, the essential truth of the Gaia hypothesis -- that the Earth regulates itself -- has since been adopted by the scientific mainstream.

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Full shares his hypothesis with engineers who test the biological principles on their robots, they are often able to offer biologists new insights into the ways in which animals move, resulting in advancements not only for the field of robotics but for biology, too.

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