In the Physics, Aristotle builds on his general account of the four causes by developing explanatory principles that are specific to the study of nature.
As chemistry developed as a discipline in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the goal of most advanced thinkers was to develop explanatory theories of living things in terms of chemical matter and mechanisms.
For example, a highly simplified model developed as a theoretical tool might be useful in developing explanatory insights, and yet not be useful for simulating the behavior of a natural system with some required level of quantitative accuracy.
We develop explanatory scenarios investigating the impact of different assumptions of eggshell thinning on skylark population size, density and distribution in 10 Danish landscapes, chosen to represent the range of typical Danish agricultural conditions.
In the 1970s and 1980s, researchers sought to develop explanatory models of course planning to help designers create and improve degree programs (e.g., Mayhew and Ford [1971]), though these early efforts were critiqued for positing an overly linear and simplistic account of faculty practice that likely did not exist in real-world settings (Conrad and Pratt [1983]).
We'll develop explanatory mechanisms that justify why we ultimately made the decision we did, and not other decisions that could have led to different consequences.
Each develops explanatory case studies using qualitative methods following Yin.
Multiple regression was used to develop explanatory models of health outcome.
This is in contrast to other recognised approaches to qualitative synthesis, such as meta-ethnography for example, which aim to develop explanatory theories or models [ 12].
This framework has been used to develop explanatory models of cancer initiation, promotion and progression (Michor et al. 2004; Vincent and Gatenby 2008).
A cultural epidemiological study design 28 will make use of ethnographic key-informant interviews and FGD data to develop explanatory model interviews based on the framework of the explanatory model interview catalogue (EMIC) for cultural epidemiology.
