The phrase "a process that refers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific process that indicates or points to something else.
Example: "The study outlines a process that refers to the stages of human development from infancy to adulthood."
Alternatives: "a method that indicates" or "a procedure that points to".
Recruitment is a physiological process that refers to the re-aeration of a previously gasless lung region exposed to positive pressure ventilation.
Recruitment is a dynamic physiological process that refers to the reopening of previously gasless lung units.
This chapter defines the request process that refers to a request for a design change, drawing/specification change, bill of material change, or engineering design action of any sort.
The journals have all incorporated language in their manuscript submission process that refers to the effort with TAIR to collect functional information about Arabidopsis genes from authors at the time of manuscript acceptance.
Risk perception is a complex process that refers to the way people approach, think about, and interpret risks in their environment.
In general, self-management is a dynamic and continuous process that refers to the individual's ability to manage his/her symptoms, treatment, physical and psychosocial consequences, and life style changes inherent when living with a chronic condition.
Further, DAVID analyses for the set of commonly regulated genes as well as for regulated liver genes (Additional file 6) yields GO biological processes that refer to steroid metabolism and, more specifically, to cholesterol biosynthesis.
This tail anneals to the D-loop in a process that is referred to as second end capture (SCE) [29].
The approach employed, in deriving the mathematical models, is statistical (black-box method), a process that is referred to as system identification [33].
