Sentence examples for a gradient effect from inspiring English sources

Although the sample number is small, this tendency for decrease of TASA score as a function of distance might suggest a gradient effect, which remains to be examined in more samples and more distant regions.

St. John et al. (2013) investigated whether depressive symptoms were associated with frailty, whether there is a gradient effect on the continuum of depressive symptoms, and whether the association between the syndromes is specific for certain depressive symptoms, such as positive and negative affects, somatic complaints and interpersonal relationships.

Because of some already known and contrasting attributes (eg birth order) associated with ID of unknown cause [31], [43] and ASD [10], [12], [33], we postulated a gradient effect in which the risk factors for mild-moderate ID and ASD without ID were at the extremes and those for ASD with ID intermediary.

The profiles for the four categories examined, mild-moderate ID, severe ID, ASD without ID and ASD with ID varied considerably and we often identified a gradient effect where the risk factors for mild-moderate ID and ASD without ID were at opposite extremes while those for ASD with ID were intermediary.

These effects are synergistic and not absolute, and depend on a gradient effect similar to that observed for the transcription factor T-bet whose restrained expression during low inflammatory conditions is important to establish a memory CD8 T cell population [46].

This suggests a gradient effect on transcription of genes in these regions.

This corresponds to a generalised continuum with a second gradient effect at the leading order.

An alternative explanation could be a diffusion gradient effect.

Maternal alcohol consumption demonstrates a weak gradient effect.

There is a similar gradient effect across most domains and for non-rural counties as well.

A latitudinal gradient effect was observed in the distribution of the bacterial community in E and R).