The phrase "explicitly tested" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means that the subject or topic mentioned has been intentionally and thoroughly tested. Example: The hypothesis was explicitly tested by conducting multiple experiments and analyzing the data to confirm the results.
Four studies explicitly tested the effect of environmental variables on siderophore production in monoculture.
But this treatment must be explicitly tested with each disease to be sure.
These possibilities will be explicitly tested in future studies by testing additional CSF samples and optimized methods of quantification and assessments of therapies such as mHTT lowering treatments.
Although a similar decline in host specificity of fungi with edge-effects has not been explicitly tested, edge-effects tend to favor habitat-generalist fungi15,18.
Our proposal of a reverse processing hierarchy is thus plausible based on functional anatomy and the existing literature, even though it has never been explicitly tested so far.
However, these hypotheses of soil property-C decomposition relationships have not been explicitly tested at large spatial scales.
Again, the multigroup setup of mixture PD models allows such hypotheses to be explicitly tested.
However, the distribution of the points in Fig. 1b also indicates that the larger number of explicitly tested inactives in the test set, the higher probability of hitting an explicitly tested inactive compound.
Researchers had previously estimated that humans could sense only about 10,000 odors, but the number had never been explicitly tested before.
*Greidanus and Nienhus (2001) explicitly tested how different types of distractors would have an influence on their French WAF test for Dutch-speaking university students.
The lagged structure of the model reduces the possibility of reverse causality, but this is explicitly tested and rejected in later robustness checks.
