Sentence examples for may be nonlinear from inspiring English sources
In addition to the above specifics, and in order to define the conceptual model as a dynamic systems model, the following characteristics are relevant: 1) the role of time, assuming that HRQOL is a construct that can develop in time; 2) the nonlinearity, assuming that the relations among components may be nonlinear with the possibility of drastic changes, reductions, or resource limitations.
In the former, cause-and-effect relationships may be nonlinear and obvious only in retrospect.
In Nelson's definition, "free user movement" means "not constrained by forms like adventure games and computer-assisted instruction, where the writing may be nonlinear but the user has little or no explicit freedom".
A constrained optimization problem consists of the optimization of a function subject to constraints, in which both the function and constraints may be nonlinear.
But according to the regression equation to predict the competitive effects of working capital, exists larger error, because the actual impact of working capital on competitive performance may be nonlinear.
where T, the fixed point mapping, may be nonlinear.
(ii) Second, the exposure response relationship may well be nonlinear.
First, the apoptosis signaling network in our representation may itself be nonlinear, especially when signaling molecules are located proximally to the receptors.
There's a good argument that this is biologically appropriate, since after all, the fly does not need to know the velocity, it just needs to control its behavior – and there may well be nonlinear transformations that intervene between the motion signal output, and the motor command.
Global optimization aims at solving the most general problems of deterministic mathematical programming: to find the global optimum of a nonlinear, nonconvex, multivariate function of continuous and/or integer variables subject to constraints which may be themselves nonlinear and nonconvex.
Although the WWB wind stress at a given location may be a nonlinear function of SST, the characteristics of WWBs are well described as a linear function of SST.
