For the children, these were sex (coded boy 0, girl 1), birth weight [both continuous and broken into low (<2.5 kg), normal and high (>4 kg) categories to account for U-shaped trend between birth weight and chronic disease risk (25)], gestational age at delivery, parity and delivery method (natural/caesarean).
As any homeowner knows, maintenance and repair is also continuous; things wear out and break, and teams of workers are always rebuilding and patching.
In comparison with traditional methods, such as optical or scanning electron (SEM) microscopy, Micro X-ray CT-scan has advantages in the study of rubber filler aggregation and crack developments for its continuous and no-break scanning.
The broader class of ULF waves are quasi-sinusoidal and exist for several periods; these are classified as continuous and are further broken down into five subcategories, Pc1-5, depending upon their frequency (Jacobs et al., 1964).
I prefer it like this because it makes the story continuous and without breaks, which is what makes it more gripping.
The center of the ocellus is black or yellow, which is surrounded by concentric, alternating dark and light rings that may be either continuous or broken.
In the marine realm, pelagic species that have large geographic range and high dispersal capabilities represent a serious challenge to the idea of allopatric divergence (i.e., a large continuous population broken up into smaller units by extrinsic barriers) and to speciation processes in a seemingly continuous environment [ 1].
The continuous film is broken off and grows with increasing space between neighboring islands (Fig. 2c).
And then the Wright story broke, and broke, and went on continuous loop on cable television, and Obama was backed into a corner.
For most of the 19th century, New South Wales had enjoyed almost continuous progress, broken only by occasional setbacks.
