Logistic growth curve models supported the hypothesis that across trials, participants would demonstrate an initial linear increase followed by a decrease in smoking urge (quadratic effect).
In the "channel" geometry, the resistance displays an initial linear variation followed by a tail part which reflects the velocity contrast between slow and fast flow channels.
The engineering stress-strain curves obtained from tensile loading have shown an initial linear elastic region, followed by a plastic region that involves deformation by local necking.
Traction separation law defined for CZM assumes an initial linear elastic behavior, followed by exponential evolution of damage.
The fluorescence signals of AMC (excitation, 380 nm; emission, 460 nm) were monitored using a VarioskanFlash (Thermo Scientific) within 30 min. The velocities were determined by fitting the initial linear data points to a least-squares regression line with R2 scores greater than 0.95.
In both preparations, Ca2+ removal induced a biphasic force decay described by an initial slow, seemingly linear decline with a rate constant, kLIN, lasting for a duration, tLIN, followed by a rapid exponential decay with a rate constant kREL.
On the basis of the test device, the elastic modulus is determined by analyzing the initial linear load displacement behavior of the suspended beam, and the yield strength is determined as the deviation from linear elastic behavior.
The effective compression moduli from the first, second, and fourth regimes were obtained by fitting the initial linear portions of the curves and are listed in Table 2.
Thus, an estimate of narrow-sense heritability (h2n) may be obtained using the formula [30]:
Data were analysed in GraphPad Prism and the kinetics was calculated by using the initial linear section of the curve (approximately the first 30 s) as shown in Supplementary Figure S5.
