The phrase "a continuum based on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a range or spectrum that is determined by certain factors or criteria.
Example: "The study presents a continuum based on various levels of engagement in the learning process."
Alternatives: "a spectrum derived from" or "a range founded on".
Barometer: Taking a Stand on Controversial Issues: Participants place themselves on a continuum based on their position on an issue, reflecting a broad range of perspectives.
The theory suggested that cultures evolve through a continuum based on economic and political organization, beginning with the most "primitive" form, the band, and developing through the stages of tribe and chiefdom before arriving at the final form, the state.
"This is all a continuum based on what he did wrong when he ran for governor the first time and things he did right as attorney general," said Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic political consultant.
A study of 12 pelagic longline fisheries from eight countries shows that incentives to avoid sharks vary along a continuum, based on whether sharks represent an economic disadvantage or advantage.
While reasoning about evolutionary change is diverse and complex, expert novice reasoning patterns, and associated benchmarks of competency, may be simplified and modeled along a continuum based on existing research (see Table 2).
During the discrimination task, they discriminated pairs of stimuli along a continuum based on the physical features of faces.
A finite element implementation of a thermopiezoelectric continuum based on the proposed switching model is presented.
However, the carcinogenicity of HPV types forms an evolving continuum based on the newly available data especially regarding the role of probable and possible high-risk HPV types (pHR-HPV).
We show that these neurons can be organized along a bidirectional visuomotor continuum based on task-related firing rates.
To bridge this research gap, we provide a theoretical framework of the response of temporary wetlands to anthropogenic disturbance along a habitat-isolation continuum based on island biogeography theory, landscape ecology and dispersal and colonization strategies of temporary wetland organisms.
Background intensities were empirically calibrated to an absorption-corrected continuum based on mean atomic number (Donovan and Tingle 1996).
