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11Chronic endothelial injury hypothesis — The chronic endothelial injury hypothesis is one of two major mechanisms postulated to explain the underlying cause of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease (CHD), the other being the lipid hypothesis. Although an ongoing debate involving… …
12Psychosocial Hypothesis — In ufology, the psychosocial or psychocultural hypothesis, colloquially abbreviated PSH or PCH, argues that at least some UFO reports are best explained by psychological or social means. It is often contrasted with the better known… …
13Somatic markers hypothesis — The somatic marker hypothesis (SMH)Damasio, A.R. (1994). . New York: Grosset/Putnam.] Damasio, A.R., Tranel, D. Damasio, H. (1991). Somatic markers and the guidance of behaviour: theory and preliminary testing (pp. 217 229). In H.S. Levin, H.M.… …
14parasitic memory hypothesis — A hypothesis involving the role of spurious memory traces in the mediation of * musical hallucinations. The term parasitic memory was introduced in or shortly before 1983 by the British neuroscientists Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916 2004)… …
15Acquisition-learning hypothesis — In modern linguistics, there are many theories as to how humans are able to develop language ability. According to Stephen Krashen s acquisition learning hypothesis, there are two independent ways in which we develop our linguistic skills:… …
16hypothetic — a.; (also hypothetical) Conditional, that involves an hypothesis, conjectural …
17Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… …
18Peirce, Charles Sanders — American pragmatism Peirce Cheryl Misak INTRODUCTION Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), one of America’s greatest philosophers, mathematicians, and logicians, was a difficult and not altogether pleasant character. That, combined with what the… …
19statistics — /steuh tis tiks/, n. 1. (used with a sing. v.) the science that deals with the collection, classification, analysis, and interpretation of numerical facts or data, and that, by use of mathematical theories of probability, imposes order and… …
20biological development — Introduction the progressive changes in size, shape, and function during the life of an organism by which its genetic potentials (genotype) are translated into functioning mature systems (phenotype). Most modern philosophical outlooks would …
