The part of the sentence "useful in explaining" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when describing something that has been helpful in providing clarification or further information about something. For example, "This diagram is very useful in explaining the stages of photosynthesis."
To better understand the complexity of social and environmental factors influencing condom use in non-commercial partnerships and how to develop interventions to increase condom use, conceptual frameworks that have been useful in explaining behaviour could be employed [ 43- 45].
Engng J. 34, 57] measure and the evaluation of column performance using 'the minimum time' measure are very useful in explaining the positive and negative effects of column holdup.
'Generalized Additive Models' (GAMs) were used to determine which derived terrain variables were most useful in explaining observed spatial patterns in abundance, number of species and diversity (1/D).
Interpreting the evolution of animal behaviour in terms of their ecology is the realm of behavioural ecology and It should come as no surprise to us that evolutionary and ecological perspectives have been so useful in explaining animal personalities.
These concepts will then allow us to arrive at a metric for capsid complexity (hexamer complexity), which is useful in explaining and predicting various structural and evolutionary properties of the capsid.
The model has been extremely useful in explaining the role of banks in the economy.
Computational methods are also proving useful in explaining how materials change over time — by, say, undergoing gradual corrosion.
And Mr. Peacock guessed that the reverse would also hold: that singing would prove useful in explaining dire need to the world.
As it happens, Voltaire's maxim may also be useful in explaining what will happen in the field of autonomous vehicles, aka self-driving cars.
The second messenger and molecular consequences of elevated adenosine may be useful in explaining "sleep debt", the long-term consequences of sleep restriction/deprivation.
The model was found to be useful in explaining experimentally observed differences in the behaviour of a tetrafunctional initiator with styrene compared to methyl methacrylate (MMA).
