Although there is convincing evidence linking some dietary components with specific cancers, there have not been major breakthroughs to explain the majority of the effects of nutrition on cancer rates.
Of 14 factors that might explain some of the drop, "even adding all of them together fails to explain the majority of the decrease", the authors concluded.
It does not explain the majority of American blue chips.
Street-based surveys in Los Angeles suggest that differences in abundance explain the majority of thefts.
The results indicate that mesoscale urban planning indicators can explain the majority of the urban climate differences among the sites.
Relief, slope, and landscape connectivity explain the majority of explained variance in all five of the hydrologic variables during all time periods.
Highly correlated variables were filtered by principal component analysis to obtain a non-redundant subset of variables that explain the majority of the variation in the complete set.
The result reveals that additive variances explain the majority of the trait variances, and the improvement in predictability by including dominance variances is marginal.
Lava cooling of 20 70% by rainfall in and around the summit area can explain the majority of the observed anomaly.
Nonetheless, the mainstream view among philosophers of biology is that natural selection accounts best explain the majority of uses of teleological notions in biology.
The search is directed not toward a single principle to explain the majority of cases and against which exceptions can be judged, but toward a set of principles that define the possibilities (or probabilities).
