Whereas standard explanations for balanced activity involve populations of inhibitory neurons for limiting activity, the effect of network topology on limiting activity spreading is observed.
After controlling for several standard explanations (e.g., wealth effects), I present evidence supporting naïve beliefs and extrapolation from past returns.
Likewise, reason has its own standard explanations for the kind of ecstatic moment that Wiman records.
By 1700 the Middle East's share had fallen to just 2% and Europe's had risen to 22%.The standard explanations for this decline are all unsatisfactory.
One of Pepco's standard explanations for the frequency and duration of its outages -- dense tree cover -- does not hold up under scrutiny, a three-month Washington Post analysis has found.
One by one, the book explores the standard explanations for economic differences and concludes that while inputs matter, they can't account for the huge differences between rich and poor countries or explain why some countries catch up with the economic leaders.
In more than two dozen national surveys and experiments conducted between March 2010 and July 2012, Lenz and Healy tested two standard explanations for this voter behavior when it comes to pocketbook issues: either voters just don't remember earlier economic conditions, or they consider election-year data more informative.
In "Taxes and Growth in a Financially Underdeveloped Country: Evidence from the Chilean Investment Boom," Chang-Tai Hsieh and Jonathan Parker put forward a provocative thesis that goes beyond the standard explanations for Chile's performance.
There are two standard explanations given for why Trump didn't specifically finger point the Klan and the Nazis and Vanguard America by name.
For decades, our standard explanation for those who make up our "denominators" — i.e., people who meet the criteria of the diagnostic test, who are at risk for a disease, but who may not actually have it — was stochastic: we thought there was a roll-of-the-dice aspect to falling ill.
For decades, our standard explanation for those who make up our "denominators"—i.e., people who meet the criteria of the diagnostic test, who are at risk for a disease, but who may not actually have it was stochastic: we thought there was a roll-of-the-dice aspect to falling ill.
