Advanced paternal age has been linked to a somewhat increased chance of bipolar disorder in offspring, consistent with a hypothesis of increased new genetic mutations.

To evaluate the probability of a hypothesis, the Bayesian probabilist specifies some prior probability, which is then updated in the light of new, relevant data.

In this case, if a proof uses this statement, researchers will often look for a new proof that doesn't require the hypothesis ( in the same way that it is desirable that statements in Euclidean geometry be proved using only the axioms of neutral geometry, i. e. no parallel postulate.

This work is a thorough review of the natal sex ratio, looking at past theories and at how new hypothesis fit the statistical data.

# Testing: Testing the hypothesis with new empirical material.

In 1750 the English astronomer Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated ( correctly ) that the galaxy might be a rotating body of a huge number of stars held together by gravitational forces, akin to the solar system but on a much larger scale.

In 1750 Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated ( correctly ) that Milky Way was a flattened disk of stars, and that some of the nebulae visible in the night sky might be separate Milky Ways.

: It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic.

Another bias, which has become more prevalent with the advent of " big science " and the large rewards of new discoveries, is bias in favor of the researcher's favorite hypothesis ; we " see what we want to see ".

While studying the continuum hypothesis, Cohen is quoted as saying in 1985 that he " had the feeling that people thought the problem was hopeless, since there was no new way of constructing models of set theory.

From the late 1980s a new school of linguistic relativity scholars have examined the effects of differences in linguistic categorization on cognition, finding broad support for weak versions of the hypothesis in experimental contexts.

In the view of some, then, it is equally reasonable to take either the continuum hypothesis or its negation as a new axiom.

Variations of the documentary hypothesis remain popular especially in America and Israel, and the identification of distinctive Deuteronomistic and Priestly theologies and vocabularies remains widespread, but they are used to form new approaches suggesting that the books were combined gradually over time by the slow accumulation of " fragments " of text, or that a basic text was " supplemented " by later authors / editors.

He waited until 1802 ( in Catalogue of 500 new Nebulae, nebulous Stars, planetary Nebulae, and Clusters of Stars ; with Remarks on the Construction of the Heavens ) to announce the hypothesis that the two stars might be " binary sidereal systems " orbiting under mutual gravitational attraction, a hypothesis he confirmed in 1803 in his Account of the Changes that have happened, during the last Twenty-five Years, in the relative Situation of Double-stars ; with an Investigation of the Cause to which they are owing.

The initial hypothesis proposed the record may be RNA-based Since then, alternative models have been proposed which would explain the phenotype without requiring a new model of inheritance.

However, a new hypothesis proposes that the C. megalodon and the great white are distant relatives ( albeit sharing the family Lamnidae ).

In addition, the new hypothesis assigns C. megalodon to the genus Carcharocles, which also comprises the other megatoothed sharks ; Otodus obliquus is the ancient representative of the extinct Carcharocles lineage.

I had already used the obvious word hypothesis in the sequence hypothesis, and in addition I wanted to suggest that this new assumption was more central and more powerful.

Hooke told Newton that Hooke had been appointed to manage the Royal Society's correspondence, and wished to hear from members about their researches, or their views about the researches of others ; and as if to whet Newton's interest, he asked what Newton thought about various matters, giving a whole list, mentioning " compounding the celestial motions of the planets of a direct motion by the tangent and an attractive motion towards the central body ", and " my hypothesis of the lawes or causes of springinesse ", and then a new hypothesis from Paris about planetary motions ( which Hooke described at length ), and then efforts to carry out or improve national surveys, the difference of latitude between London and Cambridge, and other items.

The mother hypothesis suggests that menopause was selected for in humans because of the extended development period of human offspring and high costs of reproduction so that mothers gain an advantage in reproductive fitness by redirecting their effort from new offspring with a low survival chance to existing children with a higher survival chance.

Hooke therefore wanted to hear from members about their researches, or their views about the researches of others ; and as if to whet Newton's interest, he asked what Newton thought about various matters, giving a whole list, mentioning " compounding the celestial motions of the planetts of a direct motion by the tangent and an attractive motion towards the central body ", and " my hypothesis of the lawes or causes of springinesse ", and then a new hypothesis from Paris about planetary motions ( which Hooke described at length ), and then efforts to carry out or improve national surveys, the difference of latitude between London and Cambridge, and other items.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

On the other hand, the new authority of $3,825 million proposed for missile procurement ( excluding research and construction ) in 1961 is $581 million higher than for 1960.

-- President Kennedy today proposed a mammoth new medical care program whereby social security taxes on 70 million American workers would be raised to pay the hospital and some other medical bills of 14.2 million Americans over 65 who are covered by social security or railroad retirement programs.

The new definition is expected to be formally proposed at the 25th General Conference on Weights and Measures ( CGPM ) in 2014.

In the book, he proposed and explained in detail a new theory of humankind: mankind as a " time-binding " class of life ( humans perform time binding by the transmission of knowledge and abstractions through time which are accreted in cultures ).

Shortly after, in 1913, Rutherford's postdoctoral student Niels Bohr proposed a new model of the atom, wherein electrons orbited the nucleus with classical periods, but were only permitted to have discrete values of angular momentum, quantized in units h / 2π.

A wealthy Quaker named Reuben Haines proposed he and educator William Russell start a new school in Pennsylvania.

The Prince of Asturias, Alfonso, is the person chosen to develop the new roadmap proposed by Canovas, which led to the June 1870 abdication of Queen Isabel II in favour of her son Prince Alfonso.

Further, soon after Lord Sydney appointed him governor of New South Wales Arthur Phillip drew up a detailed memorandum of his plans for the proposed new colony.

The British evacuation of Afghanistan was settled on the terms proposed, and in 1881, the British troops also handed over Kandahar to the new Amir.

It was in fact Celsius who proposed the new academy's name.

In the 1960s the work of the engineer Alexander Thom and that of the astronomer Gerald Hawkins, who proposed that Stonehenge was a Neolithic computer, inspired new interest in the astronomical features of ancient sites.

In the January 1997 State of the Union address, Clinton proposed a new initiative to provide coverage to up to five million children.

At a meeting to inaugurate the Northern Corridor Transit Coordination Authority ( NCTCA ), the governments of Uganda and Burundi backed the proposed new railway from the Ugandan western railhead at Kasese into the DRC.

In 1953, Brian Pippard, motivated by penetration experiments, proposed that this would modify the London equations via a new scale parameter called the coherence length.

The type of dynamical equilibrium proposed by Einstein was not new.

Shareholder nominations can only occur at the general meeting itself or through the prohibitively expensive process of mailing out ballots separately ; in May 2009 the SEC proposed a new rule allowing shareholders meeting certain criteria to add nominees to the proxy statement.

Reeder felt another medal was needed to be a ground equivalent of the Air Medal, and proposed that the new award be called the " Ground Medal ".

The Commission Internationale de l ' Éclairage ( International Commission on Illumination ) and the CIPM proposed a “ new candle ” based on the luminance of a Planck radiator ( a black body ) at the temperature of freezing platinum.

The latter re-assumed power in March, and a new Constitution encapsulating his proposed reforms was ratified in a plebiscite in September 1925.

* Toman: The new currency that is proposed by the Central Bank of Iran which would replace the Iranian Rial by slashing four zeros off the country's national currency.

" The DNA testing was originally proposed to add new members, many of whose family record books were lost during 20th-century upheavals, to the Confucian family tree.

He proposed a reform of the Latin alphabet by the addition of three new letters, two of which served the function of the modern letters W and Y.

Some official bodies have adopted the proposed Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy almost entirely, however a more common approach worldwide has been to retain the traditional groupings, and modify rather than replace them in the light of new evidence as it comes to hand.

Beforehand various rumours arose including plans to return to ground-sharing with QPR in a new 40, 000 seater White City stadium, although these now appear firmly on hold with the construction of the Westfield shopping centre on the proposed site.