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On the Past and Future of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing

The Journal of Wildlife Management, 2002
Recent criticisms of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) have appeared in wildlife research journals (Cherry 1998; Johnson 1999; Anderson et al. 2000, 2001; Guthery et al. 2001). In this essay, we discuss these criticisms with regard to both current usage of NHST and plausible future use.
Daniel H. Robinson, Howard Wainer
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Poisons of the Past: A Very Fascinating Hypothesis

2021
The importance and sad fame of Claviceps purpurea, a fungus that attacks rye, are linked to the disastrous consequences for human and animal health caused by the presence of its sclerotia in the flours and fodder.
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Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH): Past, Present and Future [PDF]

Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, 2008
In this survey article, after delineating its historical origin of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), the authors summarize from the methodological perspective the empirical findings from 1960s through 1990s bearing on the EMH under the headings "supporting empirical findings as documented in 1960s", "mixed empirical findings as merged in the late
Gili Yen, Cheng-few Lee
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Geography of the Past: A Phytogeographic Hypothesis

1952
It is accepted procedure in manuals dealing with plant-dispersal to discuss purely extra-botanical theories of the earth’s past which have, or are supposed to have, importance as regards distribution.
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The cholinergic hypothesis — past and present

2004
It is difficult to pinpoint the birth of cognitive pharmacology, i.e., a study of the effect of drugs on the behavioral and neurochemical processes we attribute to higher order thinking, learning, and memory. Moreover, it is not possible here to discuss and critique the various dominant theories of cognition.
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Essays on causation, explanation, and the past hypothesis

2015
The essays in this collection begin with an introduction to the problem of the arrow of time, the necessity of the past hypothesis in the standard solution to that puzzle, and an appreciation of the special nature of the low-entropy state posited by the past hypothesis.
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Norwegian gender roles in transition: the masculinization hypothesis in the past and in the future

Journal of Rural Studies, 1991
Abstract This paper discusses the so-called masculinization hypothesis which states, in the Norwegian context, that the female share of the agricultural labour force has been declining for the past four decades. Historically, the female contribution of agricultural labour has been under-estimated, but in recent times, social scientists and ...
Reidar Almås, Marit S. Haugen
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Panspermia Hypothesis: History of a Hypothesis and a Review of the Past, Present, and Future Planned Missions to Test This Hypothesis

2019
Speculations about the origins of life on Earth have existed since the dawn of civilization. The Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (500–428 BCE) asserted that the seeds of life are present everywhere in the universe (Nicholson, Trends Microbiol 17:243−250, 2009). He coined the term panspermia to describe the concept as life traveling between planets as seed.
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The Natural Rate Hypothesis: An idea past its sell-by date [PDF]

Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, 2013
Central banks throughout the world predict inflation with new-Keynesian models where, after a shock, the unemployment rate returns to its so called "natural rate'. That assumption is called the Natural Rate Hypothesis (NRH). This paper reviews a body of work, published over the last decade, which is critical of the NRH.
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Learner hypothesis and past tense marking in Vietnamese English

World Englishes, 1996
ABSTRACT: A number of recent studies on tense in L2 have claimed that the past tense is acquired in developmental stages: verbs, such as ‘build’ and ‘work,’ which are lexico‐aspectually more event‐like (less state‐like) are claimed to be marked for past tense earlier in the developmental process than those, such as ‘be’ and ‘want,’ which are less ...
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