The phrase "are useful in explaining" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the effectiveness or utility of certain concepts, tools, or methods in clarifying or elucidating a topic.
Example: "Graphs and charts are useful in explaining complex data trends to the audience."
Alternatives: "help clarify" or "aid in understanding".
However, we feel that the main meta-regression models for ever smoking (Table 6) and current smoking (Table 8) for COPD and CB are useful in explaining some of the heterogeneity, their usefulness being confirmed by the fact that adding in further characteristics did not significantly improve prediction.
Both rearrangements; the lactam-lactim forms are useful in explaining the different coordinating properties.
Overall it seems that Hofstede's cultural values are useful in explaining the integration of sustainability practices, but not their implementation.
Although constraints are useful in explaining how children limit possible meanings when learning novel words, the same constraints would eventually need to be overridden because they are not utilized in adult language.
The model results are useful in explaining relationships between image features and texture parameters.
As such, they are useful in explaining the iterative nature of the systematic review process to a new researcher.
To better understand the complexity of social and environmental factors influencing condom use in non-commercial partnerships and how to develop interventions to increase condom use, conceptual frameworks that have been useful in explaining behaviour could be employed [ 43- 45].
In conjunction with our earlier research, these results will be useful in explaining the relationship between known landslides and landslide susceptibility, and can therefore be used to support decisions relating to emergency planning and mitigation in the Khuzestan province, as well as supporting the development of a landslide risk management strategy for Izeh Basin.
These concepts will then allow us to arrive at a metric for capsid complexity (hexamer complexity), which is useful in explaining and predicting various structural and evolutionary properties of the capsid.
As it happens, Voltaire's maxim may also be useful in explaining what will happen in the field of autonomous vehicles, aka self-driving cars.
The second messenger and molecular consequences of elevated adenosine may be useful in explaining "sleep debt", the long-term consequences of sleep restriction/deprivation.
