Sentence examples for a gradual and continuous from inspiring English sources

The difficulty in establishing distinct language boundaries is the result of a gradual and continuous migration of peoples that has produced a complex pattern of merged ethnic groups.

As we know, the introduction of the drugs in the bloodstream and the consequent absorption for the body are a gradual and continuous process.

A gradual and continuous deterioration of the chlorpyrifos residues on the lettuce leaves were observed as a function of time (days) after pesticide application.

Rather than a simple linear trend, the data show stepwise changes in elevations at particular times, meaning that uplift occurred in a series of discrete events rather than as a gradual and continuous process.

In the present work, we focus on Green's functions for Poisson's equation in inhomogeneous media with diffuse material interfaces where a gradual and continuous transition in the material constant is assumed in a small region around the interfaces between different materials.

Second, the properties of the interface Cys are not the result of a gradual and continuous change, indicating that all parts of the protein do not contribute to the properties of the interface Cys and that instead, they are modulated by a small number of amino acids.

The in vitro experiment was based on the assumption that VAP supervenes as a result of gradual and continuous exposure of the innate immune system to the pathogen while non-VAP sepsis is the result of an abrupt stimulation of the innate immune system.

The best known model restricted to lotic ecosystems is the River Continuum Concept (RCC), which predicts a clinal response of organisms and ecological processes to gradual and continuous changes in physical conditions along a longitudinal dimension.

Gradual and continuous land use intensification, a result of industrialization and economic optimization of land use, was the dominant trend throughout the observed period, apparently overruling socio-economic framework conditions and land use policies.

In this work, the matching problem between two free-form parametric surfaces, S0 u, v) and S1 u, v), has been considered in the context of a first stage of the metamorphosis process, which is defined as gradual and continuous transformation of one key shape into another.

Now, perhaps more realistically, he has alighted on the Japanese theory of kaizen, or gradual and continuous improvement, and his book bustles with the frequently overblown verbal tics of self-development.