Hypothesis

A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it. Scientists generally base scientific hypotheses on previous observations that cannot satisfactorily be explained with the available scientific theories. Even though the words "hypothesis" and "theory" are often used synonymously, a scientific hypothesis is not the same as a scientific theory. A working hypothesis is a provisionally accepted hypothesis proposed for further research, in a process beginning with an educated guess or thought.A different meaning of the term hypothesis is used in formal …

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RIS: Research and Information System for Developing Countries · 26 April 2024 English

The purpose here is also to set the benchmark for environmental provisions in FTAs, which would be helpful in preparing the stance of India in the upcoming FTAs India is …

second channel is through the pollution heaven hypothesis, under which many countries specialise in dirty standards and innovations. The Race to bottom hypothesis may be another channel through which international impacts the environment adversely. As per this hypothesis, the countries, in pursuit of a competitive edge


RAND Corporation · 22 April 2024 English

In this report, the authors explore challenges in studying racial bias in police shootings of civilians. They discuss the importance of thinking about bias as a process and its implications …

using what they termed the veil of darkness hypothesis. Their test takes advantage of how driver race


MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 22 April 2024 English

Second, India sought to reconcile the divergent positions of the two Superpower blocs in the Council.6 Moreover, India proposed the formation of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission (NNRC) and later …

significantly in terms of scope, scale, and impact. This hypothesis is grounded in the research’s aim to provide


WIL: World Inequality Lab · 22 April 2024 English

We find that the different inequality levels in Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria in the first half of the 20th century were the result of a more “developed” social structure in the …

mechanisms underlying the influential Kuznets’ hypothesis − that of sectoral reallocation of labor and industrialization in germany, 1850–1913: the kuznets hypothesis re-examined, in: Brenner, Y.S., Kaelble, H.,


PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 19 April 2024 English

He is a member of the Editorial Board of the French Review Commentaire and Knight of the Legion of Honor. [...] Under the direct supervision of Professor Abdelaziz Aitali, the …

candidate to the White house and excluding the hypothesis of a Trump victory. But the lack of faith in


TPI: The Productivity Institute · 19 April 2024 English

The use of the ONS statistical data in this work does not imply the endorsement of the ONS in relation to the interpretation or analysis of the statistical data. [...] …

smaller number of observations. The underlying hypothesis is the following. More productive firms in a


CADTH: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health · 18 April 2024 English

• The review addressed the following policy questions: ▪ In children with ongoing active ITP, what is the overall body of evidence supporting the use of TPO -RAs and rituximab …

comparative cohort studies must have clearly defined a hypothesis prior to the enrollment of patients and collection


U4: U4 Anti-corruption Resources Centre · 18 April 2024 English

Conceptualising the drivers The role of the financial and service industries in and forms of corruption facilitating transnational corruption has climbed the research agenda in recent years. [...] And regulatory …

They • Monika Bauhr and Nicholas Charron: hypothesise that new women mayors reduce Will women executives reduce corruption


AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 17 April 2024 English

Abstract Homelessness is arguably the most extreme hardship associated with poverty in the United States, yet people experiencing homelessness are excluded from official poverty statistics and much of the extreme …

which they were already qualified. This latter hypothesis would be consistent with concerted efforts by


UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund · 17 April 2024 English

It is important to note that of material in maps do not imply the expression transgender men and non-binary people also experience pregnancy, and that gender-diverse people experience of any …

public health explanation is the inverse equity hypothesis, in which new health interventions are most immediately proportion of women reporting they are unable equity hypothesis holds (page 65), progress to make their own choices zskgke326/files/publications/Taking%20 Weathering Hypothesis as an Explanation on Right to Health for All Report. Geneva: WHO. 2018. “The Inverse Equity Hypothesis: Childbirth.” Website: iris.who.int/bitstream/


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