It might, for example, provide a criterion of identity which enabled us to accept beliefs as entities (though it also might not: the criteria of individuation of meanings given by our hypothesized notion of synonymy might be too fine or too coarse to serve as a criterion of belief-identity).
Present findings support the hypothesized notion [ 12, 27] that autoimmune activation associated with enhanced low-grade inflammation is a common mechanistic pathway leading to diverse chronic diseases, foremost to diabetes, CHD and CKD.
A while ago, at an IEA Hobart Lunch lecture, I half-jokingly hypothesized the notion of the BBC launching a national newspaper, delivered to every home in the country, free of advertising, and with impeccably impartial news reporting.
These findings are contrary to the often-hypothesized notion that individuals of lower SES are more susceptible to the negative effects of living in disadvantaged neighborhoods due to increased pressure to engage in negative-health behaviors or lack of resources and positive supports.
Based on this notion, we hypothesized that the qualitative or quantitative variations in expression of the type and number of genes in general and within each specific category, could be attributed to differences in the initial status of each single hMSC population at the time of fusion gene introduction.
We therefore hypothesized, based on the notion that our study sample was markedly underpowered, that the 0.5% most significant interactions would be enriched for interactions involved in MDD-susceptibility.
This has led to the notion of hypothesized "contagion processes" operating in social networks, which seem to apply to a range of items, including the spread of happiness, health-related behaviours, diseases and risk factors (e.g. smoking, obesity, and depression) [ 9, 22].
We merely hypothesized that this well known notion could be extended to explain the existence of some religious rituals that promote microbial transmission.
Furthermore, our finding supports the notion of Weisz et al. [2005], who hypothesized that the asymmetry between hemispheres vanishes in case groups were used for analysis that are more balanced with respect to tinnitus side.
McLuhan hypothesized that borderless electronic media would undermine the nation-state, a notion that seemed unlikely at the height of the cold war but that seems more relevant in an age in which people use fax machines, VCR's, satellite dishes, cell phones and computers to receive information their governments don't want them to have.
Obviously, manipulations that can selectively inhibit USVs without altering other postshock fear responses (currently unavailable) will be required to further test this notion of auto-conditioning, perhaps analogous to auditory mirroring hypothesized in birds [40].
