However, by their nature soils exist as a continuum both in the spatial and attribute domains and often cannot be fitted into discrete categories without introducing errors or at least over-simplification.
What makes Dylan different is not just the quality of his best songs, but his insistence on aligning himself to an older, deeper songwriting tradition that precedes pop and exists as a historical continuum outside our current somewhat blurred notions of culture and entertainment.
However, several novel mutations in the PRPS1 have been recently published (Table 1) suggesting that these disorders exist as a phenotypic continuum of PRPS1-related diseases.
I agree with the statement that sexuality exists along a continuum as the rigidity of zero-to-six negates the nuance and changeability of sexuality.
Sansone et al [ 4] developed the SHI based on the conceptualisation of DSH as "... exists along a continuum from graphic, self-harm behaviour to milder forms of self-sabotaging behaviour that might be viewed as self-defeating" (p 973) with the specific aim of using self-reports of DSH to diagnose Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
"I've come to see Tourette's as something that exists on a continuum," says Lethem.
The fact is, biologically and scientifically, that gender identity exists on a continuum, which is imprecise and indefinable, as opposed to two perfectly distinct categories into which every human can be assigned, and the discussion can be shut down.
Unlike "dichotomous" diseases such as many malignancies, diabetes is defined by hyperglycemia, which exists on a continuum and may be impacted over a short time frame by everyday treatment or events (medications, diet, activity, intercurrent illness).
We hypothesized that just as there exists a continuum of clinical and subclinical cerebral edema (9), there also is a continuum of brain injury in DKA and that brain injury outside the context of florid cerebral edema is more common than previously recognized.
