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For example, Catterall [39] provides structural evidence that activation of a bacterial sodium channel may possess multiple non-equivalent conducting states, raising the possibility that conductance could be graded rather than binary.

While the stochastic process representing the evolution of a human pathogen such as influenza may have an enormous number of degrees of freedom [42, 43], the dynamics of interest may comprise a smaller number of dimensions, such as a strain's virulence or fitness, which may naturally be graded rather than discrete quantities.

Neurotransmission at C. elegans neuromuscular junctions is likely to be graded rather than driven by an action potential; however, light stimulation via channelrhodopsin has been used to study single evoked responses at these synapses (Liu et al., 2009).

Notably, but not statistically significantly, the locomotor and exploratory behaviour of female offspring followed the same pattern as that of the males, suggesting that female behaviour is affected by MPSI, but to a lesser extent, such that programming of offspring behaviour may be graded rather than dictated by gender.

It would also be of interest to consider those cases where information is graded rather than discrete (Valone & Templeton 2002; Dall et al. 2005), such that a range of information values (rather than the dichotomous correct incorrect alternatives used here) could be explored.

The relatively high number of calls that were incorrectly classified, however, supports the acoustic impression that structural differences between leopard and snake chirps are graded rather than discrete in nature (Fig.  3), suggesting that, for many calls, receivers would be unable to determine whether the signal was indicative of the presence of either a leopard or a snake.

Graded, rather than abrupt, interfaces are formed in either case.

Occupations in these societies tend to be graded along a continuum rather than in a rigid hierarchy.

Rather than be graded, customers are classed simply as creditworthy or not.

In this Brave New World, students are to be graded on mastery of material rather than irrelevant considerations like organization.

Some potential methods to approach this could be graded activities on using the strategies (rather than only interleaving them into examples) or demonstrating how they benefit procedural fluency (e.g., presenting problem types where recognizing and using such strategies are particularly important).