All measures of nest morphology that we used in our analyses were made by CAC to control for inter-observer variation, and all measures were made on nests prior to hatching or the presence of large nestlings because nestlings can distort the shape of the nest [32].
These will form the main shape of the nest, and are much easier to work with than hard, short twigs.
However, this function presupposes that the shape of the seasonal nesting distribution is symmetrical.
Additionally, the shape of the tumor nest was assessed using the criteria applied to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma [ 61].
Besides being China's best-known artist, with an installation now on display at the Tate Modern gallery in London, and a lasting legacy in the shape of the "bird's nest" stadium in Beijing built for the 2008 Olympics, Mr Ai was one of its most trenchant dissidents.
Although the shape of the ERC for the nested case control studies could be estimated only very imprecisely, the results indicated that these studies were largely responsible for the rather high intercepts that were predicted for the ERCs based on the full data.
In contrast, we have shown that the best fit model describing the nesting season of leatherback at Ya:lima po exhibits three components: an overall shape describing the nesting season and two sinusoids signals.
