First, few if any theories (whether grand, big or small) set out to be fully predictive of an intervention's feasibility or effectiveness, particularly when that intervention is a complex, multicomponent social treatment; rather, theories aim to provide frameworks for conceptual thinking and programme design, and help to generate additional theories (hypotheses) for testing.
The analysis revealed that the classical understanding, whereby case study research is adequate for the "exploration" of a theory and quantitative research is adequate for "testing" theory, is oversimplified.
The current theories provide methods for testing various common life distributions [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11].
These precepts are reinforced again by Schlotfeldt [ 23] who states that it is 'nursing's clinical scholarship that must be depended on to generate promising theories for testing that will advance nursing knowledge and ensure nursing's continued essential service to humankind' (p8).
The experimental method has proven useful for testing theories on economic allocation.
The glycolytic pathway is particularly suitable for testing theories of enzyme evolution and the involvement of gene/genome duplications.
Therefore, the glycolytic pathway is particularly suitable for testing theories of the involvement of gene/genome duplications in enzyme evolution.
Thoracican cirripedes are prime models for studies on intertidal ecology [ 12- 15], larval settlement [ 16, 17], antifouling technology [ 18] and for testing theories on the evolution of life cycles and reproductive systems [ 3, 19- 22].
Dr Bradley was responsible for testing the theory that modern cattle are the result of not one but two separate domestications.
