Hypotheses Development

Based on multiple theories, the framework (Fig. 2.1) that relates constructs of IT resources, lOS appropriation, collaborative culture, trust, SC collaboration, collaborative advantage, and firm performance has been developed to conjecture probable truth. In the following sections, hypotheses proposed in the framework will be discussed. 

Hypothesis 2 IT appropriation has a significant positive effect on supply chain collaboration. 

Trust is an important prerequisite for effective lOS use. If supply chain partners trust each other, they will use technologies and share information openly, communicate easily and frequently, and even jointly explore new knowledge using confidential data and information (Jap 2001 Lejeune and Yakova 2005 Koenig and van Wijk 1994 Kumar et al. 1998). 

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In this paper special stress is laid on the experimental data, which characterize the ability of ozone to entrain itself in the autoxidation molecules of oxygen which would have remained inactive if no ozone were present. The following interpretation is brief because the hypotheses developed in the author s laboratory are not yet fully satisfactory. 

In silico analysis, while necessary, is not sufficient to validate a presumptive target. It is necessary that one finalize this process by examining, in vitro and/or in vivo, the assumptions underlying the hypotheses captured in the biosimulation mns. The obvious experiments were recommended based on the in silico predictions captured in table 14.3. Since the PhysioLab platform is transparent and can illustrate the physiological effects and conditions underlying these hypothetical functions, a research plan was specifically designed that described, in detail, the laboratory experiments required to confirm the hypotheses developed above. 

The scientific method involves the interactive use of hypotheses, development of theories, and thorough testing of theories using well-designed experiments and is summarized in Figure 1.1. 

Consistent with the notion that this is an active process was the observation that metabolic inhibitors compromised transport (Fig. 1). The mechanism of coupling taurocholate translocation to metabohc energy is poorly understood. Some evidence is consistent with recent hypotheses developed for the transport of other organic compounds. An example of these hypotheses was presented by Curran et al. (18) and involves the interaction of sodium ions and amino acid transport. It is postulated that the uphill transport of amino acids into the mucosal cell depends on the maintenance of high extracellular and low intracellular sodium ion concentrations. The high extracellular sodium concentration, by enhancing sodium binding to a... 

Limitations Identifying the appropriate test to troubleshoot a unit problem requires hypothesis development and testing. Hypothe-... 

If the general hypothesis developed in the first chapters of this book is valid, we would presume that each human individual has, for basic genetic reasons, a distinctive pattern with respect to his various endocrine glands and their interrelationships. The existence of such patterns involving the gross and microscopic anatomy and physiology of each gland can hardly be questioned. How different individual patterns may be is another question it has often been assumed that in normal individuals these differences are relatively inconsequential. The material to be presented in this chapter has to do with the validity of this assumption. 

Together with the other chemicals-related projects in the [riw] program (INNOCHEM and COIN) an abstract model of the innovation system was drawn up according to Hemmelskamp 2000 . To obtain a more generalisable understanding of chemicals-related innovation systems, the results of the case samples and the hypothesis development were also interlinked and abstracted in such a way that two basic types of innovation systems were able to be identified and illustrated towards the end of the project. 

An alternative hypothesis, developed from studies of the synthesis of Linde A zeolite carried out by Kerr (5) and Ciric (6), pointed to growth occurring from solution. The gel was believed to be at least partially dissolved in solution, forming active aluminosilicate species as well as silicate and aluminate ions. These species linked to form the basic building blocks of the zeolite structure and returned to the solid phase. Aiello et al. (7) followed the synthesis from a highly alkaline clear aluminosilicate solution by electron microscopy, electron diffraction, and x-ray diffraction. These authors observed the formation of thin plates (lamellae) of amorphous aluminosilicates prior to actual crystal formation. 

However, these results do not prove that a chemical bond is being broken between lignin and carbohydrate for we must consider the hypothesis developed in modern terms by Pew 26 y 27). 

The Genomic Potential Hypothesis develops the evolutionary events as a consequence of chemical/biochemical principles. Even complex biochemical processes such as thought and emotion fall under the purview of science and perusal of contemporary science literature supports that statement. 

Battersby and Co-workers (25-28), Money et al (29) and Leete et al (30) all reported the specific incorporation of [2- C] mevalonic acid and [2- C] geraniol into representative examples of the corynanthe, aspidosperma and iboga groups of alkaloids, and in each case the distribution of radioactivity was in full agreement with the monoterpene hypothesis developed by Thomas (23) and Wenkert (2U), and according to the biogenetic isoprene rule that monoterpene are formed in nature by suitable modification of geranyl pyrophosphate (31). 

Wraith, J.M. and Or, D. (1999) Temperature effects on soil bulk dielectric permittivity measured by time domain reflectometry Experimental evidence and hypothesis development, Water Resources Research 35 Suppl. 2, 361-369... 

The modification of the ergodic hypothesis developed by Jeans (Dynamical Theory, 96 ff.) is based on the Stosssahlansats. Hence this approach does not seem to be suited for a critical foundation either. 

Within less than two decades after the discovery of photoperiodism in 1920, the hypothesis developed that one or more specific flowering hormones are responsible for floral initiation (23,36-39). 

Experimental support for the multiple wavelet hypothesis developed out of work done by Allessie et al. in 1985. They were able to map the spread of excitation in the atria of a dog heart during rapid pacing-induced AF in the presence of acetylcholine, and provided the first demonstration in vivo of multiple propagating wavelets giving rise to turbulent atrial activity (44). They estimated that maintenance of AF would require a critical number of four to six wavelets. In a canine sterile pericarditis model of paroxysmal AF, unstable reentrant circuits of very short cycle length have been shown to be critical for maintenance of AF (45). In addition, pharmacological experiments have further shown that termination of AF by class IC antiarrhythmic drugs is preceded by a decrease in the mean number of wavelets (46,47). 

The labelled pathways hypothesis, developed by Goodman and co-workers to explain the specific choices of axonal pathways made by growth cones in insect embryos (see Section 3.3.1), predicts the existence of a set of axon guidance molecules with a highly specific and restricted distribution on central and peripheral axonal pathways. 

On the hypothesis developed by Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey, and Overbeek (DLVO), a colloidal suspension becomes rapidly unstable if the maximum value of random thermal energy of the colloidal particles. This hypothesis forms the basis of the DLVO theory of colloidal stability. With the approximate expression for

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