Sentence examples for Fundamental hypothesis from inspiring English sources

Islands in the lake have enabled ecologists to test a fundamental hypothesis in their discipline.

One fundamental hypothesis, which later came to be known as "escape-and-radiate coevolution", was originally proposed in 1964 to explain the "evolutionary arms race" between butterfly larvae and their food plants (doi 10.2307/2406212).

Such measurements are based upon a fundamental hypothesis that the deformation of polymer is elastic, that is, there is no tip-induced surface inelastic alteration or damage.

A fundamental hypothesis of incentive theory is that the seller may want to offer a menu of contracts to separate the buyer types.

This dissertation tests the fundamental hypothesis that thermal and non-thermal processing lead to biologically relevant increases in energy gain from protein-rich meat and starch-rich tubers, two major caloric resources for modern and ancestral humans that present divergent structural and macronutrient profiles.

The fundamental hypothesis of the theory proposes a unified criterion for crack extension under monotonic and fatigue loading, so that the fatigue crack growth rate is given explicitly in terms of the total plastic dissipation per cycle and the monotonic plane stress or plane strain fracture toughness of the material.

In the present study, the fundamental hypotheses proposed by Hashin are re-examined and re-evaluated.

The validation technique builds a consistency region for a given confidence level that allows to discriminate between the individual points of the EIS spectrum that are consistent with the four fundamental hypotheses, and the inconsistent ones.

For this reason, CFD is a useful tool for the design and evaluation of sampling systems, among others, to verify the fundamental hypotheses on which the mass balance for the sampling hood is defined.

It is worth note that the fundamental hypotheses introduced in couple stress theory, but not kinematic assumptions of classical plate theory, are discussed as the main points in this article.

The design approach is based on five fundamental hypotheses that examine and explain the mechanisms of organizational growth and complexity, leading to the conclusion that sustainable business growth happens most successfully within a core competence focused, network-like organization structure.