Though experienced as being outside of one another, the touched body parts would not be experienced as forming a continuum or as spatially related to one another.
Consequently, microbial-plant interactions, like any other biological interspecific interaction [1], [2], [8] [12], involve selfishness, cheating and power-struggles between the partners, thus forming a continuum of interactions from antagonistic to mutualistic [4], with an occasional breakdown in mutualism [12].
Another important aspect is that, once a symptom is presented in general practice, the severity of a symptom could be thought of as forming a continuum.
In particular, any measure of health state is at least in part a reflection of social, cultural, bio-behavioral, economic, physical, and medical influences within the broad context of risk, protective and resilience factors forming a continuum of multilevel states and renewal processes in the nonlinear and dynamic epidemiology of population change.
2011) and exhibit a wide diversity of phenotypes, forming a continuum between typical wild plants (notably characterized by the presence of anthocyanin pigmentation in stem and head, seed dormancy and seed shattering, self-incompatibility, branching) and cultivated morphotypes (Muller et al. 2009).
Consistent with the observations for Chinese and South American samples, we observed that HIV-1 genomes are positioned on the straight edges of the triangle formed by original subtypes, positioned at the corners, forming a continuum along the axes rather than discrete clusters within.
The instruments form a continuum with assessments of disease activity and functional disability.
"They form a continuum," said Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America, but the continuum, he said, is tilting toward more nondiscretionary spending.
The resulting six audience segments – which form a continuum – were named the Alarmed, Concerned, Cautious, Disengaged, Doubtful and Dismissive.
