They found five patterns, such as "upward mobility patterns", "stable patterns", "downward mobility patterns", "fluctuating patterns" and "others".
Exclusion factors were major illnesses, diabetes mellitus, thyroid abnormalities, heavy alcohol consumption, recent acute or chronic disease, changing medications affect weight, weight loss >5 kg in last 3 months, fluctuating exercise patterns, strenuous exercise >1 h per day, pregnancy or lactation, dietary limitations, and dislike of vegetables.
In terms of stability and change, patterns of "upward mobility" and "fluctuating patterns" were prevalent in men's OCPs.
Patterns of "upward mobility" and "fluctuating patterns" (upward and downward movements) were prevalent in the men's OCPs.
The fluctuating patterns of shot durations in movies released over the past century are approaching a fractal pattern.
Fluctuating patterns are marked as not meaningful.
Seventeen percent (N = 9) of participants evidenced fluctuating patterns of drinking.
Periods of stable consumption or abstinence were sometimes interspersed among otherwise fluctuating patterns of use.
N. C. Makris, "A foundation for logarithmic measures of fluctuating intensity in pattern recognition," Optics Letters 20, 2012-2014 (1995).
I can't count how many I own – I swap them around as I fluctuate in weight.
It fluctuates like weight.
