Nature produces bodies on a spectrum; a continuum of possibilities.
The systems approach shows that there is a continuum of possibilities for participation; at one extreme, users are involved in the projects only as the labour force, whereas at the other, they play an active role in decision-making and project management.
In fact, many scientists today prefer to discuss gender differences in terms of a broad continuum of possibilities, as opposed to a strict distinction between two straightforward options.
Both types exist on a continuum of innovation possibilities that differ in how closely they resemble the existing product.
Exceptions can be made in special cases, justifiable from a health perspective, if there are possibilities for continuum of care, or other special reasons.
Or rather, the concept of process emerges through [End Page 104] the encounter with a series of problems, which in turn can be understood as situations of possibility or "a continuum of variation" (Massumi 1992, 38 39).
Herbart had advocated a three-dimensional real world of causally connected but discrete monads, which the mind treats via the concept of a continuum, which it supplies, thereby turning its discrete experiences into spectra of possibilities.
In quantum mechanics we again use a 4-D continuum of locations, but as we've discussed, these are locations only of possibilities.
One of the consequences of this continuum of torture is the ever-present possibility that the victims of torture will not simply be tortured, but rather be murdered; and in point of fact numerous people have died in the course of being tortured.
Riolo et al. [5] have introduced a model with a continuum of tags, but which does not include the possibility of cheating against somebody who uses the same tag [6].
One possibility is that there is a shift in the continuum of parasitism to mutualism that plants and mycorhizae have.
