Andrew Lo, of MIT's Sloan School of Management, was fond of pointing out that in the physical sciences three laws can explain 99% of behaviour, whereas in finance 99 laws can explain at best 3% of behaviour.
Some climate change "sceptics" claim that this process, rather than the burning of fossil fuels, can explain much of the Earth's recent rise in temperature.
The Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt in fact has a nice series of blog posts on this topic which explain some of the quirky factors that have led hospital prices to be so economically unjustifiable.
Scores of books explain masculine ways of thinking and behaving so women can understand what might otherwise remain a mystery.
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You know, they explain to me their point of view, I explain to them my point of view and, and they do the same, the American do the same, you know, that's part of the diplomacy.
"If you understand the distribution of these structures in the skin of a prey animal, you can understand something about predator-prey interactions, and it might explain some of the hadrosaur fossils we see with these bite marks, " he said.
They offered to see me and I said 'yes please' - I'm very happy to sit in front of them and explain the process of writing this book and why I did it.
While distance from Africa can explain as much as 85% of the genetic diversity of populations, a similar distance measurement can explain only 19% of the variation in phonemic diversity.
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Two current commercial concerns explain much of the popularity of books such as these.
Because it helps to explain some of the crazy distortions that are surfacing in the financial markets.
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Something which, if true, might explain some of the pretty pass we find ourselves in at present.
Here I will attempt to explain some of the complexities you may have forgotten about in the intervening seven months.
Gudefin's hedge fund background helps explain two of her other specialties at Discovery: merger arbitrage and distressed-debt investing.
The debate format didn't give Paul the time to explain all of this.
This year he had to explain one of the great mysteries of politics.
That might explain some of the differential with France and Germany but not with America, which also has high employment.
Changes in short interest, then, do not explain much of the stock price decline around the time of the bond-rating downgrade.
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Still, politics is far more polarizing than a Nike logo, which may explain some of the frustration the gamers are expressing.
Rather, it is an attempt to explain some of the political and social circumstances under which this lawsuit is taking place.
"We're confident the medical records are going to explain all of George's medical history, " Robert Zimmerman Jr. said at the time.
Rousselot had to remind him and explain part of the story again.
Two concepts, Argumentative Theory and Confirmation Bias, can explain much of this.
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This helps explain one of the oddest and most consistent findings of television research: that people seem unaware of their own behaviour.
Granted, the Knicks' collective age doesn't explain all of their early-game struggles.
Nevertheless, they may help explain patterns of disease such as late-onset diabetes.
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Zeki said many challenges against his field are based on the false assumption that he and colleagues are trying to explain works of art.
Did he use the power of his pen to explain the futility of such a policy, pointing out the unintended consequences that would surely ensue?
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This could explain some of the euphoria surrounding the upcoming announcements.
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On the other hand it might help explain patterns of disease associated with ageing as cells whose ancestors were genetically identical slowly diverge from one another.
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