Sentence examples for often not linear from inspiring English sources

Strictly speaking, trends are often not linear.

Seeking structure-property relationships is an accepted paradigm in materials science, yet these relationships are often not linear, and the challenge is to seek patterns among multiple lengthscales and timescales.

The α-helices are not the only helical conformation and are often not linear [7], [8], the β-sheets also show irregularities [9], [10] and the coil is in fact, not strictly random.

This is clearly a pitfall, because the link between population density and damage is often not linear (Mitchell et al. 2004).

The actual process often is not linear but circuitous, looping back and forth between initial goals and new goals, developing new goals while still maintaining initial goals (such as to keep fighting for a cure while also focusing on keeping the child comfortable), or transitioning sequentially over time through multiple sets of new goals.

For short fibre polymer composites such as chopped strand mat laminates (CSM), glass mat thermoplastics (GMT) and sheet moulding compounds (SMC), conventional methods to measure fracture energy are often not valid since linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) criteria are not fulfilled.

However, often f is not linear in θ and we obtain a non-linear system, which is solved iteratively, given initial parameter values, by linearizing it in each iteration.

Recognition that program impact is often not straightforward or linear [ 25] meant that too heavy an emphasis on measuring specific pre-determined outcomes would not enable understanding of the range of possible effects of the program.

"The journey often isn't linear," Beveridge says.

Complexity poses challenges for measurement and evaluation because program impact will often not be straightforward or linear [ 69].

Structural Equation Models [ 3, 4] provide a general statistical modeling technique to estimate and test functional relationships among traits, which are often not revealed by standard linear models.