The phrase "are intermediate features" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing elements or components that serve as a bridge or transition between two stages or levels in a process or system.
Example: "In the analysis of the model, we found that the parameters we adjusted are intermediate features that influence the final output."
Alternatives: "serve as transitional elements" or "act as mediating characteristics".
The reason for such interesting and very useful behavior is that when characteristic structural features are intermediate in extent between isolated atoms and bulk macroscopic materials, i.e., in the range of about 0.1 100 nm, the objects may display physical attributes substantially different from those displayed by either atoms or bulk materials.
They traditionally practice slash-and-burn farming and their phenotypic features are intermediate between Australoid and Mongoloid people.
When a high affinity polymer is blended with a low affinity one, the features that are intermediate between two extremes are observed.
Several studies, mostly based on uniparentally inherited markers, have shown that Central Asian populations harbor genetic features that are intermediate between Europeans and East-Asians [66] [68].
The above results indicate that AID+/− cells express reduced levels of AID mRNA and show hyperactivation features that are intermediate between AID proficient (AID+/+) and AID deficient (AID−/−) cells.
These MINOspheres exhibit features that are intermediate between spheroids that are derived from normal and carcinoma cells.
The hypothesis that DDD and C3GN are part of a continuum is further supported by cases showing features that are intermediate between DDD and C3GN [ 3, 7].
The distinction between pilocytic astrocytomas and diffuse astrocytomas in NF1 patients may be difficult as some tumors present histological features that are intermediate.
Our ' Proterythropsis' sp. has a relatively short posterior cell 'extension' and nematocysts; it essentially possesses morphological features that are intermediate between Proterythropsis sensu stricto and heterotrophic Nematodinium cells.
They nevertheless represent a good model to investigate the molecular determinants of cancer development, because they show features that are intermediate between those of clearly benign and clearly malignant lesions.
