Sentence examples for no direct tests from inspiring English sources

It has been hypothesized that mindfulness training (MT) provides one path for gaining control over such top-down influences; yet, there have been no direct tests of this hypothesis.

However, we know of no direct tests for such an effect in Caenorhabditis.

Although assortative preferences for cues of adiposity, whereby leaner people are inherently more attracted to leaner individuals, have been proposed as a factor in assortative mating for adiposity, there have been no direct tests of this issue.

Although there are no direct tests of which characters influence mate choice in H. leucophyllata, the tendencies of frogs in general (and a close relationship with H. ebraccata, in particular) suggest that at least some of the above characters play a role in mate choice in H. leucophyllata.

It is possible that male general cognitive performance plays an important role in sexual attractiveness, but there has been no direct test of this hypothesis.

These results show that the models developed are reliable enough and, if there is no direct test result, these models can be used in engineering projects.

These studies provided circumstantial evidence linking Rad21 cleavage at centromeres to centromere separation, but provided no direct test of whether this cleavage is a prerequisite for anaphase initiation or centromere separation.

It is likely that these growth factors mediate HSC survival in vivo although to date no direct testing of this hypothesis, for example with inducible knockouts, has been conducted.

However, with the exception of one recent study which looked at autism and psychosis [12], MRI studies have focused on either ASD or schizophrenia exclusively, and there has been no direct test of brain structural similarities in these conditions.

Likewise, Verbeke et al. (2013) describe a gene prioritization method based on local networks that they "assume" reduces the effect of hubs, but provide no direct test.

There has been no direct test of this assumption, but several findings from ecologic immunology and exercise physiology studies are not compatible with this conjecture.