Prägnanz may also be achieved through good continuation; this principle describes a tendency for smooth continuity of contour to be dominant over discrete, irregular, abruptly changing contours.
The third discursive process, habitualization, describes a tendency whereby ideological beliefs, social practices and experience become unchallengeable, 'automatic', 'uncritical' and 'habitual' (Fowler: 1996).
It describes a tendency to open doors.
This describes a tendency for some groups to become larger through time, which we see several times on Figure 1 with runaway natural selection for large size.
All informants described a tendency towards more challenging work situation characterized by increased workload and higher work pressure with less time available.
Increased indirect task demands emerged as a theme as some HCWs described a tendency towards a more challenging work situation characterized by increased demands of indirect time activities (i.e. documentation, writing reports, and transferring over a large geographical area).
For example, several patients described a tendency to maintain a steady fixation on a particular region, such as focusing on the ground when walking, meaning that they could miss other important information in the visual field.
Some felt there was a lack of choice between receiving medication and using other services and described a tendency for medication to be prescribed too readily and used as a "sticking plaster".
However, more fundamentally, many participants also described a tendency for mothers to be held responsible, and for fathers to resist accepting responsibility, for negative events in their children, where lapses in the mother's care were not identified or suspected.
Overall, they described a tendency in their analyses to group Hymenoptera as sister taxa to Mecopterida, but they also found Hymenoptera or Hymenoptera + Coleoptera as the most basal lineages in some of their trees.
