The phrase "a quantitative shift in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes that can be measured numerically in various contexts, such as economics, science, or social studies.
Example: "The study revealed a quantitative shift in consumer behavior following the introduction of the new product."
Alternatives: "a measurable change in" or "a numerical change in".
In concordance with a quantitative shift of distribution, its function within coding genes probably has become more prevalent during the evolution of walking sticks as compared to other insects.
In an independent HRBEC sample set, we demonstrated quantitative shifts in mTOR pathway transcripts and gene products.
Other quantitative shifts in flight behaviour accompanying successful odour location, including a decrease in flight altitude and more frequent approaches to visually textured walls of the arena near to the odour source, are described in detail in Frye et al., [23].
Whenever flowering-plant speciation is accompanied by genetically based quantitative shifts in pollinators or by qualitative shifts in pollinators with an intermediate phase, then the speciation even is potentially adaptive, as in ecological speciation (Nosil 2012).
As TNF and MIP-1α production after TLR2 stimulation never reach the levels obtained after costimulation, regardless of ligand concentration (Fig. 1D and F), these data suggest that such responses are qualitatively different and not simply quantitative shifts in the dose-response curve.
Importantly, there appears to be both a quantitative and a qualitative shift in the content of HSPGs, in parallel to the nevi radial growth phase vertical growth phase melanoma progression.
However, our study provides the crucial quantitative shift of refractive error in children when compared with their parents.
The model of an apperceptive/associative congenital prosopagnosia proposed advances on previously proposed models of prosopagnosia in several aspects: Qualitative vs. quantitative shift: Acquired prosopagnosia has been simulated in artificial neural networks by a decreased connectivity which lead to a quantitative decrease of performance [65], [66].
Recently, genomic selection (GS) [ 1] has led to a paradigm shift in quantitative genetic analyses and selective breeding programs.
We note that both up- and down-regulated genes exhibit a wide range of absolute expression levels, and many show quantitative shifts rather than dramatic qualitative changes in expression level.
