Some question the conventional explanation of a single large impact that enveloped Earth in a cloud of dust and almost instantaneously brought on a deadly global winter.
Burke was well aware of the difficulty: "Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat an whole system".
Inevitably, this ignoring of general principles made Zhu less sensitive to the contradictions that arose when he offered more than one explanation of a single phenomenon.
Participants whose explanations, whether verbal or visual, contained multiple steps scored significantly higher (M = 0.76, SD = 0.18) on the post-test than participants whose explanations consisted of a single step (M = 0.67, SD = 0.19), F 1, 126) = 5.02, p < 0.05.
This mechanistic explanation of how a single amino acid change in the TM domain of FcγRIIB results in its dysfunction, which can be described as a "catch-me-if-you-can" model (model 4, Fig. 4).
She does so not by any particularly convincing explanation of how a single state might come about but by showing how bankrupt are the policies that have so far shaped efforts to end the conflict.
A few words of explanation: A single malt scotch is the product of one single distillery, just as Château Lafite wine comes only from that château.
Students' progress throughout the lessons displayed a wide range of explanations for the estimate of a single student's arm span, general surprise at the variation in measurements, and a large variety of hand-drawn representations based on the values or frequencies of measurements.
Cat people, on the other hand, know what it is to be adored and then rejected, with no explanation, in the space of a single minute, with the purr switched off like an alarm clock.
The linguistic nativist's theory views our acquisition of grammatical competence as a simple matter — one that can be described at one level of explanation, and in terms of a single kind of process.
