These data provide evidence that the processor operates by admitting structure which maximally satisfies the principles of Government and Binding Theory locally at every point during a parse, and that ...

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

The diffusion of innovations theory describes a technique some companies use to develop a marketing strategy for new products and market share. These five steps apply.

In an attempt to explain business cycles, Milton Friedman came up with a plucked-string analogy. Like all Monetarist theories, however, this also had fatal ...

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical framework capable of describing the entirety of the known ...

The lipstick effect is a theory that spending on small indulgences such as premium lipstick increases during periods of recession.

Michael Scriven, Explanation and Prediction in Evolutionary Theory, Science, New Series, Vol. 130, No. 3374 (Aug. 28, 1959), pp. 477-482 ...

By studying sarcomeres, the basic unit controlling changes in muscle length, scientists proposed the sliding filament theory to explain the molecular mechanisms behind muscle contraction.

Occam’s razor is a principle often attributed to 14th - century friar William of Ockham that says that if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the ...

Keynesian theory’s popularity waned then because it had no appropriate policy response for stagflation. Monetarist economists doubted the ability of governments to regulate the business cycle with ...

For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which industry entrants will succeed ...