Sentence examples for explanatory tools from inspiring English sources

As a cardiologist, I have found that Vice President Dick Cheney's cardiac problems have served as explanatory tools for my patients.

This volume counters such methodological individualism by exploring recent and influential work in the life sciences that utilizes notions of collectivity, sociality, rich interactions, and emergent phenomena as essential explanatory tools to handle numerous persistent scientific questions in the life sciences.

However, notice in this case that the reason for resistance is not that the explanatory tools that evolutionary theory provides are ill-fitted to the explanatory task (as saws for hammering, perhaps) but rather that the tools are dangerous.

We can term them "systems," but cells are cells and systems are explanatory tools in a systems theoretical perspective.

Due to this analogy to Waddington's epigenetic landscape, potential landscapes are becoming increasingly popular as explanatory tools in fields such as evo-devo, developmental biology, and especially in stem cell research.

Prevailing frameworks of demographic, epidemiological, and health transitions as descriptive and explanatory tools are beyond reasonable doubt incomplete or irrelevant in the African context on conceptual, methodological, empirical, and policy grounds.

But national identity turns out to be an exceedingly weak explanatory tool.

Sometimes, it's hard not to feel that psychology might be as useful an explanatory tool as economics.

But policy makers should discard these dry, unsatisfying academic formulations and start paying attention to a much more powerful explanatory tool: golf.

He's thinking mainly of cutaway diagrams, as an explanatory tool, but I imagine that can be an effective tool of persuasion as well.

Her current book project about Germany explores why the Middle Ages gained relevance as an explanatory tool in debates about progress, the nation, religion, and culture.