Sentence examples for a major axis from inspiring English sources

The struggle between the Sinaloa Federation and the Gulf/Zetas would continue to be a major axis of the escalating violence that followed President Felipe Calderón's launch of a military-led offensive against organised crime in December 2006.

The fact that cheap water transport on the Rhine helped to keep prices of raw materials down was the main reason the river became a major axis of industrial production: one-fifth of the world's chemical industries are now manufacturing along the Rhine.

Prevention constitutes a major axis in the protection of radiopharmaceutical-manipulating personnel.

Each ellipse-shaped detector ring had a major axis of 281.6 mm and a minor axis of 207.5 mm.

This system uses a polycapillary optic to focus the primary X-ray beam into an elliptical spot with a major axis diameter of approximately 50 µm.

The device develops a somewhat asymmetrical and diffuse focal spot with a major axis length of the order of 700 μm [182].

A major-axis regression through the origin was conducted in R [ 38].

This pattern was detected as a slope significantly smaller than one when male body size was on the x-axis in a major-axis regression between the independent contrasts of logarithm transformed male and female body size [ 37].

We then fitted a line of best fit using a standardised major axis (SMA) to obtain a slope estimate and r 2 value (Beaulieu et al., [ 24]; Connolly et al., [ 71]).

We first converted dorsal fin and head crest area into a linear measure through a square-root transformation, and then performed a reduced major axis regression on body length (see [ 82]).

The approach for estimating proportional forest cover change as a continuous variable was based on a reduced major axis regression model.