Sentence examples for gradual continuum from inspiring English sources

We chose to incorporate our EBM curriculum within the SPICES framework, in which six educational strategies are represented as a gradual continuum, contrasting the more innovative SPICES model with more traditional teaching strategies [ 22].

One caveat applying to our structural type classification is that cytoarchitectonic differentiation of the mammalian cerebral cortex likely forms a gradual continuum (Sanides and Hoffmann 1969; Sanides 1970), as do laminar projection patterns within each of the three ordinal classes (Grant and Hilgetag 2005).

We conclude that the representatives of the different rpk1-7 cotyledon variants are not members of a continuum of gradual decrease of SAM size.

In a Darwinian sense, species formation is an outcome of a continuum of gradual evolution, from ecological races and biotypes, to hybridizing taxa and, ultimately, to "good" biological species that no longer cross [ 1].

As with many other organismal traits, the evolution of components of flight performance in extant birds, including wing shape, is best understood as gradual change along a continuum or a stepwise accretion of traits [ 6].

At the end of the continuum, the gradual increase in Hsp90 expression reached statistical significance; Allred score and both its components (intensity and percentage of positive cells) were increased in IDC.

The evolution from medical genetics to genome medicine (or genomic medicine) has been gradual and reflects a continuum [ 1, 2], but there has been a marked transition in the few years since the completion of the first human reference genome sequences [ 3, 4].

There is no structurally significant linguistic boundary that coincides with the national and standard language boundaries between the Netherlands and Belgium on the one side and Germany on the other; at the level of local dialects, the entire Dutch-German territory from the English Channel to the Alps constitutes a continuum, with only gradual transitions from one village to the next.

This gradual change of properties suggests a functional continuum wherein more superficial neurons preferentially perform whisker-specific segregation of lemniscal sensory information, while deeper pyramidal neurons integrate sensory information (i.e., associate principal and adjacent whisker input across cortical columns).

This is no surprise, evolution does not typically operate in leaps and bounds but gradual changes and so we would expect to find a continuum between earlier dinosaurs and later birds and this is clearly present in both the fossil record and reconstructed family trees of these animals.

(A ) Gradual maturation of the properties results in widely distributed functional continuum.