The preferential reactivity of the catalyst particle toward CO and not toward C2H2 is understood as reflecting nanoparticle restructuring, interactions between co-adsorbates and reactant pyrolysis products.
Preference and motivation tests assess motivation, defined operationally as the tendency for an animal to perform a behaviour, but understood as reflecting the animal's desire to do so.
Trace-fossil distribution can be understood as reflecting the partitioning of desert settings in a mosaic of landscape units, characterized by water content and its temporal fluctuations, nutrient availability, nature of the substrate, and the dominant organisms present.
This would not have happened unless the scientific community had accepted Galileo's description of the ideal behaviour and did not expect to be shaken in its belief by small deviations, so long as they could be understood as reflecting inevitable random discrepancies between the ideal and its experimental realization.
The results presented above indicate that this immigrant optimism might be better understood as reflecting unequal access to social capital.
The secondary effect could be understood as reflecting the perceived "natural" choice given a student's starting situation and her social, and institutional surroundings.
From this starting point, Zipin, Sellar, Brennan, and Gale (2013) argue that idealistic aspirations and realistic expectations are better understood as reflecting a doxic and a habituated logic, respectively.
Such a requirement can in turn be understood as reflecting the fact that classical physics does not allow for the possibility of action at a distance.
Justice O'Connor's minimalism is best understood as reflecting a belief that in difficult cases at the frontiers of constitutional law, judges would do best to avoid firm rules that they might come to regret.
Under Albert and Aristotle's mentorship, Aquinas acquired a deep appreciation for nature's continuity, which he understood as reflecting purposeful design rather than common descent.
