Sentence examples for deflection hypothesis from inspiring English sources

The significance of butterfly eyespots has been convincingly demonstrated to serve as an anti-predatory function either by imitation of a predator's own dangerous enemies (intimidation hypothesis) or by deflecting predator strikes toward less-vital parts of the body (deflection hypothesis).

Large, conspicuous eyespots are considered to be intimidating for the predator thereby decreasing the chances of attack – the "Intimidation Hypothesis", whereas smaller eyespots closer to the wing margin are thought to attract attention toward themselves thus deflecting predatory attacks away from the more vital parts of the prey – the "Deflection Hypothesis" [ 3, 45- 48].

The models address the non-linearity of load-equilibrium equations, applied in the deformed configuration, under small deflection hypothesis.

The woodland brown butterfly L. achine was chosen as a suitable prey for testing the deflection hypothesis, because this satyrine has large marginal eyespots with broad-spectrum reflectance in their white eyespot pupils that strongly reflect light well into ultraviolet wavelengths (Fig. 1a and 1b).

There is experimental evidence supporting both hypotheses (intimidation hypothesis [ 2, 22, 23, 25, 26]; deflection hypothesis [ 20, 49- 51]).

And indeed, both the intimidation and deflection hypotheses have been proposed to explain the occurrence of eyespots in fish for instance, - although empirical evidence in support of either idea has been noticeably missing.

The plates are considered to be thin and to undergo small deflections satisfying Kirchhoff's hypothesis.

The observed increase in post deflections with GPTMS attachment supports this hypothesis.

The timing of this component coincides with the first negative deflection of the phase-locked LFP modulation, supporting the hypothesis of a preparatory increase of excitability that interacts with the visually evoked activity.

Recently, the LRO data (Timothy et al. 2015) have supported the hypothesis that swirls are formed as a result of deflection of the solar wind by local magnetic fields.

As a consequence of such an hypothesis, it is possible to formulate the longitudinal shortening first, and subsequently compute the deflection history as a function of the shortening tendency.