Theories about the origin of the city's name suggest that it may be a corruption of the Spanish la virgen, after the nearby Virgin River, or possibly an error in the transcription of the term " beaver skin.

Theories have abounded, including some which suggest it may indicate the whereabouts of the Holy Grail, an idea fuelled by the Anson family's ancestral ties to the Knights Templar.

Theories, some of them rather bizarre, abound: some contemporary scholars suggest, for example, that the persona may be a woman ; if so, the strangulation could stem from frustration with the world.

Theories suggest the site was dedicated to funerary ritual.

Theories put forward suggest a great storm or tidal wave was the cause and indeed many of the remains appear to have been swept along the sediment, some losing limbs on the way.

Theories are that he feared the Rump was trying to perpetuate itself as the government, or that the Rump was preparing for an election which could return an anti-Commonwealth majority.

Theories could be divided into two categories: top-down and bottom-up.

As Rolf Wiggershaus recounts in The Frankfurt School, Its History, Theories and Political Significance ( MIT 1995 ), Lazarsfeld was the director of a project, funded and inspired by David Sarnoff ( the head of RCA ), to discover both the sort of music that listeners of radio liked and ways to improve their " taste ", so that RCA could profitably air more classical music.

Theories based on the Phillips curve suggested that this could not happen, and the curve came under a concerted attack from a group of economists headed by Milton Friedman.

Many Grand Unified Theories ( but not Pati-Salam ) predict that the proton can decay, and if this were to be seen, details of the decay products could give hints at more aspects of the Grand Unified Theory.

Theories could be decidable yet not admit quantifier elimination.

The programs were so well received by the British public that the arguments have been published in a totally engrossing little book called, `` Rival Theories Of Cosmology ''.

Theories connecting Ēostre with records of Germanic Easter customs ( including hares and eggs ) have been proposed.

Theories on the use of graffiti by avant-garde artists have a history dating back at least to the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism in 1961.

Theories about them have to rely on a preponderance of other evidence, which alone are not solid enough to warrant much conclusiveness.

Several Grand Unified Theories ( GUTs ) have been proposed to unify electromagnetism and the weak and strong forces.

Theories have been proposed that Víðarr's silence may derive from a ritual silence or other abstentions which often accompany acts of vengeance, as for example in Völuspá and Baldrs draumar when Váli, conceived for the sole purpose of avenging Baldr's death, abstains from washing his hands and combing his hair " until he brought Baldr's adversary to the funeral pyre ".

Theories have been proposed that these figures are connected to valkyries.

Theories that the painting is about duality ( city and country, male and female ) have been dismissed since radiography has shown that in the earlier stages of the painting the soldier to the left was a seated female nude.

Theories have been proposed suggesting that the Pied Piper is a symbol of the children's death by plague or catastrophe.

Theories of creativity ( particularly investigation of why some people are more creative than others ) have focused on a variety of aspects.

Theories have been proposed about the Greek origin of the symbol and its implications.

Theories do not have to be perfectly accurate to be scientifically useful.

Theories which assert that the universe has a finite life, but that the Big Bang did not happen, have problems with the abundance of helium-4.

Theories about the site have focused on the idea of inversion, as represented by the upside-down central tree stump and the single post turned 180 degrees from the others within the circle itself.

Theories with more than 32 supersymmetry generators automatically have massless fields with spin greater than 2.

Theories with 32 supersymmetries automatically have a graviton.

In practice, testing measures are never perfectly consistent. Theories of test reliability have been developed to estimate the effects of inconsistency on the accuracy of measurement.

Theories of the processes behind atherosclerosis ( atherogenesis ) have been modified over the years.

Theories held by mainstream Egyptologists about the date of the construction of the Great Sphinx of Giza have been challenged and various alternative theories have been proposed – about the builder or the dating – to explain its construction.

Theories, such as scattering, have been proposed for the formation of large planets close in to their parent stars.

Theories exist that its inventor was Christophe Des Rosiers, furniture maker for the French Royal Family, but Marc Andre Jacoud was also rumored to have been the inventor.

On 27 July 2010, the band announced to have signed a new record deal for three albums with Music Theories / Mascot Records.

Theories sparked about Olson's having been assassinated by the CIA.

Functionalism had been the dominant paradigm but, in the 1960s, there was a shift towards Social Control Theories, conflict criminology, and labeling theories that tried to explain the emerging and more radical social environment.

With variations, it has also been used for books on the philosophy of physics ( World Enough and Space-Time: Absolute versus Relational Theories of Space and Time ), geopolitics ( World Enough and Time: Successful Strategies for Resource Management ), a science-fiction collection ( Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction-Dan Simmons ), a short story by Terry Pratchett (# ifdef DEBUG + " world / enough " + " time "), and, of course, a biography ( World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell ).

Theories have been proposed that this description may have some relation to notions of the Jordan River due to phonetic and typological similarities perceived by Eilífr, though there may be no other causative connection.

Theories have been proposed about the implications of the descriptions of the temple and the findings ( or lack thereof ) of the archaeological excavations in the area.

Theories about his disappearance have suggested that he was murdered, that he ran off with another woman, or that he had been involved in corrupt practices which were about to be revealed, and therefore fled.

Theories include: the Tu-144 tried to avoid a French Mirage chase plane which was attempting to photograph it, that changes had been made by the ground engineering team to the auto-stabilisation circuits to allow the Tu-144 to outperform Concorde in the display circuit, and that the crew were attempting a manoeuvre — to outshine Concorde — that the aircraft was not capable of.

Theories have been proposed about the possible appearance of Róta in Gesta Danorum and the meaning of her name.

Theories with an academic basis which support this thinking have been popular, in the sense of receiving much attention ; without ever being able to support claims of reliability acceptable to more rationalistic perspectives.

Since then there have been several proposals for Grand Unified Theories, e. g. the Pati-Salam model, although none is currently universally accepted.