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Used in that way, a construct is a hypothesized cause for the observed behavioral covariations.
Chemicals that perturb the immune system may increase chances of an inappropriate response to infection, which is a hypothesized cause of childhood leukemia (Greaves 1988).
Mechanical or chemical changes in degenerative intervertebral discs comprise a hypothesized cause of low back pain without sciatica or neurological deficits.
Failure at the bench can be difficult to induce and may not be entirely representative of the failure mechanism in a low-resource clinic (e.g., introduction of water into the supply gas line to mimic a hypothesized cause).
However, these studies should not be used in the forthcoming meta-analysis because using lifetime measures precludes establishing temporal order between a hypothesized cause and a hypothesized effect.
Studies that find evidence of an association between a hypothesized cause and effect are more likely to report the summary statistics necessary for meta-analysis, and are therefore overrepresented in these analyses (Bekkering and others 2008).
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A hypothesized reason is that the decrease in connection strength is due to decreasing common input with depth [25].
But there may be some facts on hand that are not readily attributed to such a factor, either ones that appear to contradict the general operation of the hypothesized cause or ones that, although not overtly contradicting, nonetheless are not explained by the key causal hypothesis.
One hypothesized cause of peer group effects is social interaction effects: an individualʼs utility from an action is enhanced by others taking the same action.
Perhaps more disconcerting, a commercial lab associated with the Whittemore Peterson Institute began marketing screening tests for XMRV, the hypothesized cause of chronic fatigue syndrome, costing hundreds of dollars.
The hypothesized cause of these changes might be declines in neurotransmitters that could affect information processing within the brain.
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