Because the position of the energy deposit is not itself measured, the separation between surface and bulk deposits is done by analysing the shape of the energy pulse (specifically, how quickly the energy rises from zero).
Instead, it is using X-ray crystallography to analyse the shape of factor D protein in order to design small drug molecules that will stick to its critical parts and stop it working properly.
Moreover, for a smaller number of cities we have sufficient data to analyse the shape of the probability density (p(T)) or of the cumulative distribution (P(T =int_{0}^{T} p(T'),dT'), as done in [20] on a similar dataset.
This allows the operator to analyse the shape of the compression/decompression curve and verify that the amount of compression is optimal.
A more recent, neontological approach is to analyse the shape of phylogenetic trees of extant taxa, revealing heterogeneity in the net rate of cladogenesis across taxa or through time [ 7, 8].
We used 3D landmark-based geometric morphometrics to analyse the shape of the hind limb bones (i.e., femur, tibia, and pelvic girdle bones) of living and extinct terrestrial carnivorans (Mammalia, Carnivora) to quantitatively investigate the influence of body size, phylogeny, and locomotor behaviour in shaping the morphology of these bones.
Geometric morphometric analyses quantify the shape of a specimen using a series of two-dimensional or three-dimensional landmarks.
Our choice of a 2 ng/ml cutoff level was based on analyses of the shape of the cumulative distribution curve.
26 Subsidiary analyses investigated the shape of associations by dividing the data into fifths of baseline values of estimated glomerular filtration rate, with further subdivision of the lowest fifth into three more groups, and using regression spline methods.
The two most recent and currently largest analyses addressing the shape of the relationship between cumulative silica exposure and lung cancer are a pooled analysis of 10 cohort studies by Steenland et al (2001) and a meta-analysis of 4 cohort and 6 case control studies by Lacasse et al (2009).
