Sentence examples for explanatory composition from inspiring English sources

In contrast, analogs rely on abductive reasoning: they start by focusing on a phenomena of interest, hypothesizing model mechanisms, synthesizing an explanatory composition of those mechanisms, and then testing that composite model against data.

These models showed that affective experiential versus acceptability perceptions have different explanatory composition and are affected differently by information.

In addition to exploring the explanatory composition and structure of expert and novice problem solutions, we analyzed the coherence of explanations across instrument items.

We hypothesized biodiversity components and community composition as explanatory links between environmental heterogeneity and resource use.

To formally test biodiversity and community composition as explanatory links between flow heterogeneity and resource use, we applied causal modeling on dissimilarity matrices (Methods, Table S3) and computed path coefficients from the Mantel correlation structure (Table 1, Figure 6).

Additional data i.e. stocking rates, and participation (or otherwise) in the Irish Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS) were collected and analysed as possible explanatory variables for farm habitat composition.

For forest composition, the following explanatory variables were used for statistical purposes (using annual data for all the available years): i) ratio of coppice to high stand forest cover (cop.hfor) and ii) ratio of coppice to mixed forest cover (cop.mix), since both these ratios give an indirect measure of forest seed productivity.

Furthermore, several fast growing mycobacteria contain ITS operons which differ in length and/or base composition (Table 1, explanatory footnotes).

A further regression analysis was performed, replacing the explanatory variable species richness with species composition, to determine whether compositional effects underpinned the observed effects of biodiversity.

Our key explanatory variables are gender and household composition (ego alone, couple alone, and living with relatives or others).

One suggestion to make sense of the possibility of the supervening functional explanations without Nagelian reduction is a metaphysical picture of composition of powers in explanatory mechanisms (Gillette 2010).