The idea was to create a lifelike subject with controllable wings, as part of research testing a hypothesis about male displays of aggression in the species.
"As the scientific community has been saying for a long time, there is no good, credible, reproducible research that supports the hypothesis that MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine causes autism, " said Dr. Max Wiznitzer, an autism expert at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.
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It was merely a hypothesis, but it did suggest a programme of research that could be conducted to test the hypothesis.
Information on the original investment hypothesis, the research it was based on, the analyst behind it and the trade execution, is typically held in a variety of separate silo systems, even in small firms, said Gottula.
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Dr Finke says more research is needed to confirm this hypothesis.
While the project might sound a little bit gruesome, the research helped gather data to support the hypothesis that wing flapping is often used to deter rivals.
Despite starting the research on 100 college students with the hypothesis that multitaskers had some special abilities, the study found that multitaskers were actually quite ineffective at managing information, maintaining attention, and getting results.
Sara Hiom, a science information officer for the Cancer Research Campaign, said Dr Siegfried's hypothesis was "persuasive".
Time and time again research rejects the-rich-are-guilty hypothesis.
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Research fellow Shelly Liang points to the Positive Feedback Trading Hypothesis (PFTH), which says traders may buy a stock simply because the price is going up.
With so many unknowns, the programme teaches participants to treat their start-up as if it were a typical research project, amenable to the same iterative process of hypothesis testing and experimentation.
To my surprise, two weeks ago, my hypothesis was tested in a paper in Journal of Geophysical Research, and it appears to be supportable.
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