Phoenix, which is based in Hong Kong but controlled by interests from the Chinese mainland, is testing a proposition: that in an era of tighter economic ties between Taiwan and China, greater China is becoming a single media market.
But as Mr. Obama wrapped up his State of the Union address on Wednesday night with an appeal to transcend partisan gamesmanship, he was plaintively testing a broader proposition: Is it possible to embrace complexity in a political and media culture that demands simple themes and promotes conflict?
The present set of studies tested a model based on three propositions: (a) self-determined sport motivation will be positively predictive of sportspersonship orientations, (b) sportspersonship orientations will mediate the relationship between self-determined sport motivation and athletic aggression, and (c) sportspersonship orientations will impact athletic aggression in two distinctive ways.
Testing such a proposition, however, is difficult.
Yet his campaign for re-election tests a proposition that is not remotely normal: that a candidate can stick by high-minded campaign-finance principles and win.
This paper examines the pattern of introduced herbivore and predator distribution in the Tanami Desert and tests a series of propositions put forward by Stafford Smith and Morton [1990. A framework for the ecology of arid Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 18, 255 278].
In particular it tests a number of propositions on how environmental management systems and the interaction with environmentally more or less concerned stakeholders are associated with the probability of firms to pursue innovation in general (measured as patenting behaviour) and specifically environmental innovation (measured based on firm self-assessment and through patent data).
This exploratory randomized controlled trial tested this proposition in a study employing a brief intervention for problem drinkers, one domain of research in which waiting list control designs are used.
The current study tested this proposition in a within-subjects design where female participants (i) expected to eat the cued food, (ii) did not expect to eat the cued food, and (iii) took part in a no-food-cue control condition.
Specifically, we tested the proposition that there is a core to the metabolic syndrome which reflects energy dysregulation.
This summer, Williams tested that proposition by taking his family to an Italian villa where it was almost impossible even for his agents and managers to reach him.
