The phrase "are elaborations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing additional details or explanations that expand on a particular topic or idea.
Example: "The following sections are elaborations on the main points discussed in the introduction."
Alternatives: "are explanations" or "are expansions".
There is something Proustian about the combination of the artist's real memories — in this case, of aspects of real places — with elements that are elaborations of his imagination.
However John Cherry believes this and other changes in the enamel of the Vienna version are elaborations by Weininger and his craftsmen; for example in Vienna the wings of the trumpeting angels are coloured.
Cranial ornamentation features that diagnose C. anthropophagus are elaborations of features found among most derived crocodyloids.
The paper starts by introducing 4 models that are elaborations of the Reichardt detector: (1) multiple channels that explicitly construct higher order correlation statistics, (2) A static front end nonlinearity, (3) separate correlations between lights and darks, (4) nonlinear combination through operations other than multiplication.
All their collaborations since have been elaborations on that bromance theme.
It applies to the Upanishads, which were elaborations of the Vedas, and to the school that arose out of the study (mimamsa) of the Upanishads.
Current DL technology is restricted to neural net development, but future methods will be elaborations of other algorithms.
Some, simply were elaborations on the truth.
His first two published papers were elaborations of his thesis, co-written with Bodenstein.
Consequently, Chapman's designs for new ships were elaborations on those principles, but with adaptations to archipelago warfare.
All the theory needed was elaboration and refinement for the benefit of the ordinary mortals who had to make it work, and who, in their obtuseness, opportunism or sheer malevolence, had misinterpreted or abused it.
