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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a reductionist analysis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an approach that simplifies complex phenomena by breaking them down into their constituent parts.
Example: "The study provided a reductionist analysis of the ecological system, focusing on individual species rather than the ecosystem as a whole."
Alternatives: "a simplified analysis" or "a component-based analysis".
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The authors provide a systematic rather than a reductionist analysis of what has worked and how scientific knowledge has provided the substance for consensus building among nations.
A reductionist analysis that creates artificial sperm types could lump independent characteristics, with distinguished evolutionary histories, into a single sperm group (e.g. M1, M2), not necessarily recovering phylogenetic relationships among taxa that share them.
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The complex nature of the response to T/HS, with its many redundant and overlapping pathways and mediators [16] does not lend itself to a simple reductionist analysis, especially when there is limited or no experimental constraints on this system [2], [3], [4].
Systems biology attempts to model complexity by supplementing an older reductionist analysis of biological phenomena with an integrative strategy that would combine the various elements into a coherent, dynamic whole (Lilienfeld 1978; Kitano 2001).
We have a formal tool, with a solid multidisciplinary knowledge base, to dissect the complexity of ecological systems by moving from the reductionist analysis of their component parts (e.g., pairwise interactions) to the analysis of their macroscopic properties (Bascompte and Jordano 2007).
This is in keeping with suggestions from Walt et al. [ 37] that explicit attention to a theory does not imply a reductionist approach to analysis but rather provides coherence and potential avenues for linking themes and concepts.
In order to explain these results however, it is necessary to apply a reductionist lens to our analysis.
Together, both tools and the Dynamic Impact Approach (DIA) 13 provide a better option as compared to other traditional analysis approaches, which mainly rely on a reductionist approach and are inadequate for functional analysis of time-course experiments.
In other words, complexomics terminologically combines a reductionist view of life (focussed on analysis, on breaking-down the phenomena of life into basic molecular components) with a holistic view (life as an evolving synthesis of intimately entangled molecular processes).
Traditionally, human diseases are classified according to the observational correlation between pathological analysis and clinical syndromes via a reductionist approach [1], [2].
In contrast to a reductionist approach to the data by means of task analysis and task ranking, the interviews had a more holistic approach, focusing on experiences with the PA program as an integrated system.
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