Sentence examples for shift and drift from inspiring English sources
His insistence that identities shift and drift, that new forms of power and opposition are always emerging, is still vital.
As some sparsely funky electronics percolate behind her, Bush goads QI host Stephen Fry to compile 50 words for the cold white stuff – stuff whose meanings (purity, death, frigidity, fun) can shift and drift, just like the blown flakes themselves.
Despite an intensive vaccine program influenza infections remain a major health problem, due to the viruses' ability to change its envelope glycoprotein hemagglutinin (HA), through shift and drift, permitting influenza to escape protection induced by current vaccines or natural immunity.
Influenza A evolution is roughly characterized by two evolutionary phenomena: shift and drift [22].
Influenza A (flu) virus causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, and current vaccines require annual updating to protect against the rapidly arising antigenic variations due to antigenic shift and drift.
The results presented in Figure 4 confirm the practical relevance of the distinction between shift and drift moves.
This also is a form of sensitivity analysis since results from cumulative analyses can be compared to full sample estimates or summary estimates can be examined for shifts and drift as more studies are added to the analysis [4, 7].
The results obtained with the HMMs, ℳ1, ℳ5 and ℳ8, give another confirmation of the biological pertinence of the distinction between shift moves and drift moves in ℳ1.
Drift and level shifts: a combination of strategies for "no drift and level shifts" cases and "drift and no level shifts".
With the pair holed up in an Alpine retreat, their relationship shifts and drifts fascinatingly between rivalry, sisterhood and the odd erotic frisson, all stoked by the play they're rehearsing.
These choices did not result in removal of all noise in the data, but they represent the compromise required for smoothing in the first filter, and that required to allow subsequent filters to properly adapt to level shifts and drifts in the absence of missing data.
