Sentence examples for distortion of scale from inspiring English sources

This distortion of scale is found in other a number of other van Eyck's Madonna paintings, where the arches of the mostly gothic interior do not allow headroom for the virgin.

The vast shed we have arrived at has an air of post-industrial neglect, but everything is subject to Alice in Wonderland-like distortions of scale.

The scaling characteristics of sets of items which use VAS require further analysis, as it would appear that they can lead to spurious levels of responsiveness and scale compression because they exaggerate the distortion of the ordinal scale.

Cape departure seems unlikely to present a major distortion of the broad-scale pattern presented here; such cases are infrequent judging by the small number of complete departures from the CFR occurring within the monophyletic (or nearly so) groups of Cape species ('Cape floral clades').

Instead, our data indicate that the major allosteric transition triggered by ATP binding is closure of kinesin's nucleotide cleft, accompanied by large-scale distortion of the peptide backbone including the central beta sheet.

with 1.516 refractive index of the prism), so that the image captured by camera is compressed 0.33 times in one direction and the ellipse is regarded as a distortion of the circle by unequal scale factors in two directions as shown in Fig. 6(c).

However, we have observed that in some simulations of scale free networks a slight distortion of the frequency spectrum was apparent.

Although the intraclass correlation coefficient is primarily designed for use with interval or ratio data, the intraclass correlation coefficient can be applied without distortion of the data on the ordinal scale of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory when intervals between such measurements are assumed to be equivalent [ 21].

Nanotechnology efforts include optical materials that reduce distortion to the scale of the nanoparticles themselves.

But stopping Keystone XL would be a major step toward stopping large-scale environmental destruction, the distortion of Canada's economy and the erosion of its democracy.

Electron microscopy/spectroscopy methods provide detailed morphological information at the nanometer-scale, but suffer from potential distortion of the skin transport properties.