Sentence examples for in efforts to explain from inspiring English sources

Expectancy, or set, is also often invoked in efforts to explain the size-weight illusion, in which a large cardboard box feels lighter than a smaller box even though both weigh the same.

For that broad reason, the Simpson case has been invoked in recent days in efforts to explain how a seventeen-year-old boy with candy in his hand ended up lying dead on the sidewalk in Florida — or, from a different perspective, why the man who shot him has been so reviled.

1950-57 Theofies of Moon's formation are incorporated in efforts to explain origin of solar system; radiometric age dating is employed in meteorite research; lunar subsurface temperatures are measured by microwave radiometry; relative ages of lunar features are derived from principles of stratigraphy (study of rock layers and their chronological relationship).

Age differences in access to high-quality resources and its relation to nest predation risk have generally been neglected in efforts to explain why old individuals have a higher reproductive performance than young ones.

Prospectively, combined approaches to analysis of landscape composition and configuration provide more leverage in efforts to explain landscape dynamics (e.g. appraisals of connectivity and fragmentation), guiding both research and management/monitoring applications.

Recent game theory has made use of the notion of a player's reputation in efforts to explain cooperation in iterated plays of games such as the prisoner's dilemma (Kreps and Wilson 1982).

It is highly relevant to ask this question as it has been suggested that the BBB might change during a migraine attack in effort to explain how anti-migraine drugs can reach the CNS [12, 25 28].

In their efforts to explain observed achievement differences in the data from large-scale assessment studies, researchers have increasingly combined different background indicators (Bos et al. 2012; Martin et al. 2008; Mullis et al. 2007, 2008; OECD 2014a) by scaling them into latent background variables.

His preference for ancient ethics is most obviously seen in his focus on the nature of the virtues and in his efforts to explain how virtues arise from our feelings and desires.

Addressing history like this is a delicate matter, and one that I struggled with in my efforts to explain how these sad contemporary events had come to pass.

Even though journalists didn't dig them out, there is a great deal of value in their efforts to explain and examine them.