The PEI was found to have about 55% of amine groups protonated at physiological condition, thereby supporting the potential hypothesis of the "proton sponge effect" of PEI.
As males have both higher levels of hemoglobin and ALT than females, we are interested in the possible association between hemoglobin and ALT levels among adolescents and the potential hypothesis of the gender difference.
This molecular insight has direct implications on engineering a broad range of recombinant proteins for secretion and provides potential hypotheses for the root causes of several secretory-associated diseases.
To generate potential hypotheses for further investigation, areas of increased ORs were compared with environmental data available from the Massachusetts GIS portal (http://www.mass.gov/mgis).
Although logical and attractive as a potential hypothesis for the cause of disease discordance in MZ twins, the confirmation of this hypothesis faces two challenges.
One potential hypothesis for the loss of rhodopsins in Haloferax may be that the ancestor of this group adapted to prolonged anoxic conditions, during which rhodopsin-based energy would be frequently unavailable.
The Bonferroni approach is an appealing method when dealing with hundreds or thousands of potential hypotheses in studies of mixtures; however, over-reliance on significance testing in observational studies where exposures are not randomized and are often correlated with one another can be problematic (Poole 2001; Rothman 1986, 1990; Savitz 1993).
As a potential hypothesis for future study, conservation of N in eggs may impair offspring performance, constraining egg proteins to be nutritionally expensive.
These findings are necessarily exploratory, given the nature of the present study, but they motivate a set of potential hypotheses that could be prioritized in subsequent follow-up studies.
Further, many surveys did not provide respondents with an opportunity to make additional comments, which can result in potentially valuable, unexpected, data being missed and limit potential hypothesis generation of reasons for poor recruitment.
