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Discover LudwigThe phrase "probe the reason" is correct and commonly used in written English
You can use it when you want to investigate or examine the cause or motivation behind something. For example: - The detective probed the reason for the suspect's sudden disappearance. - The therapist encouraged me to probe the reason behind my anxiety. - The company conducted a survey to probe the reason for the decline in sales. - The journalist's role is to probe the reasons for government decisions.
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However, further analysis is needed to probe the reason for retention or loss of flagellar genes in the Sphingobium strains, and to investigate whether Sphingobium have the potential to gain motility through acquisition of the remaining genes under the high selective pressure of HCH in the stressed environments.
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The prolonged or repeated absence of some employees, ReD also found, was putting unfair pressure on their colleagues and impeding efficiency, but many managers were reluctant, often unnecessarily so, to probe the reasons for sick leave.
In addition, we will probe the reasons behind the possible inadequacies of quality control procedures, and the challenges facing these test developers in the Chinese context.
To probe the reasons behind this slow pace of development, an emergy evaluation and an economic analysis were conducted on the Jiangxia Tidal Power Station (JTPS), which has an installed capacity of 4.1 MW.
To probe the reasons behind the outbreak, medical epidemiologist Tracy Creek of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, and colleagues examined a cohort of 153 Botswanan children, 65% of whom had an HIV-infected mother.
It repeated some of the issues in the questionnaire such as item writing and marking, but it was also intended to probe the reasons behind the perceived inadequacies of quality control procedures as well as the challenges facing the examination boards in test development, administration, and use.
We designed an experiment to probe the reasons for the apparently suboptimal behavior, and we find that the classic Fisher (1930) intertemporal choice theory with perceived transaction costs and liquidity constraints is perfectly consistent with our experimental data, whereas hyperbolic discounting is not.
It depends on the honesty of prosecutors and the willingness of trial judges to probe the reasons for excluding particular jurors.
On hindsight, we feel we should have included questions to probe the reasons for not holding REC meetings.
The lack of a supportive qualitative study that would have been used to deeply probe the reasons for the different levels of the acceptability of the contraceptives in the different geographic settings is another limitation of the study.
We find it notable that over a third of the RNs chose a 'neutral' response in several of the individual patient safety culture items, although this survey data do not allow us to better probe the reasons for this.
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