Sentence examples for opposing assumption from inspiring English sources

Pierre de Fermat derived Snell's law using the opposing assumption, the more dense the medium the slower light traveled.

Thus, FET and the binomial test have opposing assumptions regarding the relationship between the presence of a peak in a genomic region and the length of that region.

It was almost with these very words that Ivan Illich began his treatise, Energy and Equity (Illich, 1974), where he critically opposes the assumption that energy irrespectively guarantees wellbeing.

Wilson's wife Edith strongly disliked Marshall because of what she called his "uncouthed" disposition, and also opposed his assumption of the presidency.

We found that lower birth height in boys correlated with more orifices in left nipples, which would oppose the assumption of a body side dependency.

" male success in mating with the preferred female may reduce the probability of immediate female's re-mating": This idea opposes our assumption of general "male mate choice copying" which renders recently mated females more attractive to rivals.

In our univariate analysis of factors associated with time to progression, this latter criterion appeared to be associated with an earlier progression (P=0.033, Table 3) and opposes the assumption that these patients had a stable disease even without TACE.

These two assumptions create opposing forces in intertemporal choice: while diminishing marginal utility motivates a person to spread consumption over time, positive time preference motivates a person to concentrate consumption in the present.

The resulting simulations provide a general indication of the importance of (i) the use of real dissolution kinetics as opposed to the assumption of complete dissolution for the fines removal system of a DTB crystallizer; (ii) taking into account the hold-up of the annular zone; (iii) compartmentation of the crystallizer main body; and (iv) the modelling of internal classification.

These K values were found to be in line with those reported by Straub et al. (1958) and Chow (1959) for open channel flow of Newtonian fluids as opposed to the assumption made by Haldenwang et al., 2002, Haldenwang et al., 2004 of using a constant value of 16 based on the pipe flow paradigm for all channel shapes.

Then (alpha_{i_{0}}=0) as opposed to the assumption that all (alpha _{i}) are positive.