One multiverse theory posits that PODs are occurring all the time, with an infinite variety of possible outcomes that each creates a universe, this having been used as a premise to the 1990s U. S. television series Sliders.

It also posits that early in 1957, Aristotle Onassis had Howard Hughes kidnapped from his Beverly Hills Hotel bungalow ; that Hughes suffered a massive brain injury during the forcible kidnapping, and that Hughes was subsequently a virtual prisoner of Onassis on Skorpios and injected regularly with morphine, while Onassis took over the operation of Hughes's considerable financial affairs, including airlines and U. S. defense contracting.

The science fiction novel, entitled Hotter than Hell, posits an alternate future in which global warming has made many parts of the world too hot to live in and has prompted a war between Canada and the U. S. over water resources.

As Forsyth ( 2009 ) posits, this tragedy made U. S. citizens aware of their mortality, and Bush provided an antidote to these existential concerns by promising to bring justice to the terrorist group responsible for the attacks.

Author and professor Mona Lisa Saloy posits a different theory, stating in African American Oral Traditions in Louisiana that " The dozens has its origins in the slave trade of New Orleans where deformed slaves — generally slaves punished with dismemberment for disobedience — were grouped in lots of a ' cheap dozen ' for sale to slave owners.

However, he also posits that the soul also has an acquired intellect.

Muller, referring to the date of a recent extinction at 11 million years before the present day, posits that Nemesis has a semi-major axis of about and suggests it is located ( supported by Yarris, 1987 ) near Hydra, based on a hypothetical orbit derived from original apogees of a number of atypical long-period comets that describe an orbital arc meeting the specifications of Muller's hypothesis.

It posits that the protein has only two states, a low-affinity state T and a high-affinity state R, where the T state is thermodynamically favored.

The film has been critiqued on the grounds that what D ' Souza posits as being an investigation into Obama includes considerable projection and speculation and selective borrowing from Obama's own autobiography in seeking to prove D ' Souza's psychoanalysis of Obama.

Sowell has also written a trilogy of books on ideologies and political positions, including A Conflict of Visions where he speaks about the origins of political strife, The Vision of the Anointed, where he compares the conservative / libertarian and liberal / progressive worldviews, The Quest for Cosmic Justice, where, like in many of his other writings, he outlines his thesis of the need for intellectuals, politicians and leaders to fix and perfect the world in utopian, and ultimately he posits, disastrous fashions.

" Anita Chan also posits that China's household registration and temporary residence permit system has created a situation analogous to the passbook system in South Africa which was designed to regulate the supply of cheap labor.

It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer ( actually his analytical engine rather than the difference engine ).

It has been likened to karma, which however tends to suggest later retribution for earlier acts, while responsibility assumption posits more of an immediate link between the experience desired and the outcome received.

Although the translation of the " Zveroboy " nickname as " beast killer " has been stated in numerous books and articles, another theory posits that the actual meaning is derived from the Russian name for the St. John's Wort, a plant commonly used to treat various ailments and having nothing to do with the vehicle's actual role or performance.

In the film, Oshii posits an alternate history in which war has been privatised ; children are manufactured and sent to aerial battles which are exploited for commercial entertainment.

* Natural law, an ethical theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere

One method based on the chemical constitution of the non-glucose part of the molecules has been proposed that posits four groups: ( I ) alkyl derivatives, ( 2 ) benzene derivatives, ( 3 ) styrolene derivatives, and ( 4 ) anthracene derivatives.

The mere-exposure effect has been explained by a two-factor theory that posits that repeated exposure of a stimulus increases perceptual fluency which is the ease with which a stimulus can be processed.

In his book America Alone, Steyn posits that Muslim population growth has already contributed to a modern European genocide:

" Variety said " whatever contortions the script went through on its way to the result, Pakula has managed to maintain an admirable concentration on the central moral equation, which posits the Irish terrorist's understandable political and emotional motivations for revenge versus the decent cop's sense of justice and the greater human good.

However, like Gods of Homer, physical objects are posits, and there is no great epistemic difference in kind ; the difference is rather that the theory of physical objects has turned out to be a more efficient theory.

Thus, Kitchen posits that the nature of Biblical Aramaic has no impact on dating.

Eternal return ( also known as " eternal recurrence ") is a concept which posits that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space.

Judaism's ethical monotheism posits a creation narrative " In the beginning " and a messianic " Olam Haba ," which mean Judaism has a linear, not a cyclical, view of time.

One detailed application of mental accounting, the behavioral life cycle hypothesis ( Shefrin & Thaler, 1988 ), posits that people mentally frame assets as belonging to either current income, current wealth or future income and this has implications for their behavior as the accounts are largely non-fungible and marginal propensity to consume out of each account is different.

The theory posits that there is a legacy of flat, 2-dimensional imagery which has existed throughout Japanese art history and continues today in manga and anime.

According to Pavlov's theory of classical conditioning, the experimenters should have been able to condition a feared response within the rhesus monkeys to the evolutionary irrelevant stimuli because the Pavlovian model posits that any UCS can elicit a CR.

Radical feminism posits the theory that, due to patriarchy, women have come to be viewed as the " other " to the male norm and as such have been systematically oppressed and marginalized.

Despite this, Plutarch mentions that this caused little friction between the two men, and even posits that Tiberius would have never fallen victim to assassination had Scipio not been away campaigning against the very same Numantines given the amount of political clout that Scipio wielded in Rome.

Father Morice, writing about this and other stories he had been told by the Carrier people, posits that there might be " a sort of national tradition among the hyperborean races of America, since even the Eskimo have a story which is evidently the equivalent of it ," proceeding to summarize the account as given by Franz Boas in " The Central Eskimo " ( 1888 ).

It is not known how Vernon Township got its name, but author Ronald J. Dupont, Jr., posits that the township could have been named after:

Everyone is stunned ( even the studio audience erupts ) and when Dick asks why the brothers have never spoken in public until then, Larry posits that it is because ' they've never been so PO ' ed before!

Liberman posits that " nor ' Easter " may have originally been a literary affectation, akin to " e ' en " for " even " and " th ' only " for " the only ", which is an indication in spelling that two syllables count for only one position in metered verse, with no implications for actual pronunciation.

One interpretation posits the Lamia may have been a seductress, as in Philostratus ' Life of Apollonius of Tyana, where the philosopher Apollonius reveals to the young bridegroom, Menippus, his hastily-married wife is really a lamia, planning to devour him.

* The Night Watch is the subject of a 2007 film by director Peter Greenaway called Nightwatching, in which the film posits a conspiracy within the musketeer regiment of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, and suggests that Rembrandt may have immortalized a conspiracy theory using subtle allegory in his group portrait of the regiment, subverting what was to have been a highly prestigious commission for both painter and subject.

Historical criticism posits it to have been composed during the early years of the 16th century or the closing years of the 15th.

Anderson falls into the " historicist " or " modernist " school of nationalism along with Ernest Gellner and Eric Hobsbawm in that he posits that nations and nationalism are products of modernity and have been created as means to political and economic ends.

Even though the oral law states clearly that one is permitted to derive benefit from Chelev, the Sefer Hasidim posits that if not for man ’ s weaknesses it would have been forbidden, and thus it is forbidden to derive benefit from Chelev for any pious person.

Though the scientific accuracy of the series is variable ( it posits the invention of acceleration compensators, artificial gravity and warp drives by the year 2015 ) it includes many hard science fiction elements, and provides a consistent technological frame if one assumes that human technological progress has been put into overdrive in order to wage war against the aliens.

" The Happy Man " posits a man who, due to having been raised from the dead by a government agency, must spend a portion of his conscious existence in Hell.

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He posits that there must have been another Mishna mentioning two sages that was later removed.