Sentence examples for most empirical support from inspiring English sources

For antagonistic pleiotropy (for which there is the most empirical support, e.g., [30]), this implies that positive selection on alleles associated with increases of survival or fertility at young ages must be large enough to compensate for non-negligible negative selection on survival at old ages, highlighting the role of trade-offs in the evolution of senescence.

Of these interventions, the effectiveness of exercise in reducing fatigue and increasing functional abilities has received the most empirical support.

In a review from Andersson and Lyttkens [ 19] it was concluded that offering cognitive behavioural coping techniques in combination with relaxation exercises received the most empirical support.

Of the hypotheses described above, the recalcitrant understorey hypothesis currently has the most empirical support (Royo and Carson 2008; Royo et al. 2010 b ).

Fourth, the therapeutic methods chosen for inclusion in ICPT may not be the only ones possible but we have given preference to those methods that best matched the behavioural determinants and had most empirical support.

Dunn [ 16] assessed 23 existing instruments in terms of format, content, features of administration and psychometric properties and concluded that the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tools for Clinical Research (MacCAT-CR) and for Treatment (MacCAT-T) receive the most empirical support.

The explanations with the most consistent empirical support revolve around the X (Z -chromosome [14], leading to the expectation that the X-chromosome plays a substantial genetic role in the occurrence of postZ -chromosometion in any given system.

By taking advantage of the GFP line, Janicke et al. [ 43] were able to disentangle social group size (i.e. number of potential mating partners) from mating group size (i.e. number of actual mating partners) and then provide the most direct empirical support for a longstanding theoretical prediction of sex allocation theory [ 51, 52].

However, most of the empirical support for the existence of such special needs rely on two inappropriate samples: prisoners who are not in treatment and treatment participants who are not incarcerated.

Because this structure did not replicate in the ISAS, and because the third FASM factor included a variety of items that did not have obvious conceptual coherence yet maintained a high intercorrelation with the other factor containing social items, we felt the two-factor structure (Intrapersonal and Social) had the most conceptual and empirical support.

However advocates of this method are fully aware that it can at most serve as an empirical support to the possibility of supererogation, but not as its philosophical justification.