Though theories cannot in Popper's view be supported, they can be corroborated: a better corroborated theory is one that has been subjected to more and more rigorous tests without having been falsified.
Something that is absent cannot be tested and therefore corroborated or dismissed.
Multiple comparison correction by controlling the FDR, which provides a useful alternative to traditional multiple testing method, further corroborated that preoperative high ESR levels, but not ALP, were a significant predictor for CSS PFDRR adjusted <0.01).
Tensile tests carried out to determine changes in the superelastic behaviour of the material due to the dieless drawing process corroborated and emphasized the results of the hardness tests, EBSD and DSC analyses.
The number of medical comorbidities was obtained from self reported history of medical conditions diagnosed by a doctor and corroborated by the report of specific drugs, diagnostic or interventional procedures, and laboratory test results.
In order to test this hypothesis, we reconstruct the gain/loss of introns on a well corroborated eukaryotic tree and examine where on the tree the gain/loss events occur.
For each of the putative splicing polymorphisms identified in the genome-wide scan, we tested for an association between splicing index and SNP genotype and corroborated 1,185 examples at a false discovery rate cut-off of 0.1.
The hypothesis that the cytotoxic response of the tumor cell lines tested in the present study may depend on p21 induction is further corroborated by data obtained following pre-treatment with the piperidine nitroxide TPL.
Methods that do not perform tests, and therefore are not scientific, may nonetheless be heuristic in the scientific enterprise if they point to more weakly or ambiguously corroborated hypotheses, such propositions being more easily refuted than those that have been more severely tested and are more strongly corroborated.
The in situ hybridization (ISH) revealed the expression of miR-1290 in only transfected cells (Supplementary Figure 3), and qRT-PCR corroborated expression of miR-1290 in transfected cells but not mock-transfected cells (>100-fold, P<0.001, n=3, t-test), confirming its ability to be expressed and processed.
