Sentence examples for may reflect variation from inspiring English sources

The method is especially useful in cross-cultural research where group differences may reflect variation in scale usage rather than substantive differences.

The ability of C. sculpturatus to adapt to different thermal regimes may reflect variation in a life history trait which has allowed them to thrive and expand their distribution across the American Southwest.

This mismatch with the conclusion of Yang et al. (2002) may reflect variation within our more limited range of grain sizes (<63 μm) and higher abundance of monazite, allanite, and to the lesser extent xenotime in the coarser fraction that they considered.

This may reflect variation in the populations of cats or disparities between study designs such as, an interaction between dosage versus duration of treatment.

To Foley et al. this "suggests that a large proportion of variation in CHC expression may reflect variation in a number of biological processes that require the expenditure of energy or lipid resources"[39].

This difference may reflect variation in the role of APOBEC activity in different cancers.

These white matter differences may reflect variations in axonal density, diameter, or alignment.

These differences in spatial denudation patterns may reflect variations in the uplift mechanism.

Such differences in mineralogy and precipitates may reflect variations in regional-scale fluid flow patterns and physicochemical characteristics of fluids along subduction plate boundary interfaces.

Because each of these flybys occurred at a different orbital phase of Io, some of these differences may reflect the Io solar-zenith-angle variation of the atmosphere, but other changes may reflect variations in volcanic activity.

On the other hand, we also suggest that these differences may reflect variations in the intensity of human occupation, in favor of more attractive environments for hunting (i.e., areas where guanaco are generally more abundant).