(a.) To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.
(a.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.
(v. i.) To give an explanation.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(3) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
(4) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
(5) Blood pressure control was marginally improved during the study and it is thought possible that better patient compliance might explain this.
(6) They are best explained by interactions between central sympathetic activity, brainstem control of respiration and vasomotor activity, reflexes arising from around and within the respiratory tract, and the matching of ventilation to perfusion in the lungs.
(7) Muscle wasting in MYD may be explained by these abnormalities as well.
(8) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
(9) Regression analysis on the 21 clinical or laboratory parameters studied showed that the only variable independently associated with CSF-FN was the total protein concentration in the CSF; this, however, explained only 14% of the observed variation in the CSF-FN concentration and did not show any correlation with CNS involvement.
(10) The approach was to determine the relative importance of predisposing, enabling, and medical need factors in explaining utilization rates among younger and older enrollees of an HMO.
(11) The results may help to explain the diversity in the multidrug-resistant phenotype.
(12) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
(13) The reduction of such potentials can be explained in terms of collision between the antidromic volleys and those elicited orthodromically by chemical and thermic stimulation.
(14) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(15) Inhibition of local thrombin formation by warfarin therapy could explain the beneficial effects of warfarin therapy in treating small cell carcinoma of the lung.
(16) The American Red Cross said the aid organisation had already run out of medical supplies, with spokesman Eric Porterfield explaining that the small amount of medical equipment and medical supplies available in Haiti had been distributed.
(17) This system may serve as a model to explain the mechanisms by which cells accumulate in inflamed joints.
(18) These results might help to explain why only a minority of individuals with a susceptible HLA type develop uveitis, as well as the variable incidence of disease in HLA-identical populations of different ethnic backgrounds.
(19) The possibility that selective bias or unmeasured environmental differences might explain the difference in BP between the two groups is discussed.
(20) The total amount of variance explained in the frequency of utilization (47%) exceeded that explained by other studies of utilization of various health services by the elderly.
Expository
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Young students, old students, and old nonstudents read and recalled short texts that were in either narrative or expository form.
(2) The paper is largely expository and is intended to motivate the development and usage of the regressive logistic models.
(3) Undergraduates, 20 women and 25 men, studied an expository text containing only isolated paragraphs.
(4) This experiment compared the effects of high-level and low-level postpassage questions, when presented immediately after the passage segment containing the answer to the question, on college students' free recall of expository prose passages.
(5) Young and older adults of low or high verbal ability heard narrative and expository passages at different presentation rates.
(6) There were 2 specific objectives: (1) to examine the effects of text genre (narrative and expository) and text format (familiar and traditional) on mothers' teaching strategies while interacting with their children around reading tasks, and (2) to examine the effectiveness of mothers' teaching strategies in eliciting children's participation in the joint reading tasks.
(7) This expository paper describes two useful tools for the statistical analysis of processes that generate repeated measures and longitudinal data.
(8) The instructional program consisted of expository texts, different types of questions and feedback.
(9) Younger and older adults read and recalled narrative and expository prose passages of varying propositional density.
(10) This study examined the effectiveness of a summarization strategy for increasing comprehension of expository prose in students with learning disabilities.
(11) College students studied an expository text following their own self-directed study procedures.
(12) We hope to remedy this deficiency with this expository piece.
(13) As in the 1975 Marihuana and Health Report, the present chapter is organized for expository purposes around four categories of unlearned behavior: gross behavior; activity and exploration; consummatory behavior; and aggressive behavior.
(14) Response latencies on a secondary task provided an index of cognitive capacity used in reading narrative and expository passages.
(15) "Yet I fear we must endure many pages of expository narration in which minor characters in whom the reader has little interest reveal details of the crime until the jury inevitably reaches the wrong conclusion."
(16) Thirty hearing-impaired and 30 normally hearing students read and summarized two expository science passages that were controlled for the number of topic (main idea) sentences and that had been rated previously for the importance of "idea units."
(17) An expository discussion of pertinent hypotheses for such situations is given, and appropriate test statistics are developed through the application of weighted least squares methods.
(18) This expository paper starts with a non-technical outline of the latent trait model, gives a detailed analysis of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and examines points raised by the empirical analysis through computer stimulation.
(19) Most of us who have concerned ourselves with models can perceive outlines like those above to catalog the future evolution of the expository function of models.
(20) High school youths who were prelingually and profoundly deaf, hearing elementary-school-age youths, and hearing reading-disabled high school youths read expository texts and filled in deleted words and phrases.