For several decades, two hypothetical backgrounds of present-day European Jews have seemed plausible to historians and geneticists.
1 Those RR functions in table 3 compare current measured pollutant concentrations with a counterfactual level (a hypothetical 'natural' background or a 'target' concentration).
It is unlikely that the hypothetical genetic background of M74 syndrome would be expressed only in the offspring of females returning from the feeding migration.
However, since the hypothetical toxicology background may be off by at least 2-fold (A.P. Davis, unpublished data), we can alternatively measure improvement in data currency by considering the number of new articles added to that year's number of publications currently in CTD.
The sample answers are a bit esoteric at times, as with the question "Can you run me through your background?" The hypothetical answer — from the perspective of an investment-banking analyst — is so heavily laden with banking jargon that users who are seeking a sales job may find it of little help.
Against this background two hypothetical cases were constructed.
As mentioned in the Background, the hypothetical protein MURF1 was predicted by the automated similarity-free classifier MOPS to be a divergent NADHdh subunit 2 (NAD2).
To back up this intuitive point, experimental philosophers have marshaled survey data to argue that English speakers from different ethnic or socio-economic backgrounds classify hypothetical cases, such as Gettier cases or Twin Earth cases, differently (Machery et al. 2004; Nichols et al. 2004; Stich and Weinberg 2001; Weinberg et al. 2001).
For this purpose, certain assumptions about the background knowledge of the hypothetical enemy must be made.
