Sentence examples for shifted patterns from inspiring English sources

But just as increased security efforts elsewhere shifted patterns of illegal migration to Douglas, these patterns have more recently shifted again to desert regions beyond the extended walls, where flimsy barbed-wire fencing separates the two countries.

Around the 1920s the economic focus began to shift to the cities and towns, and, as it shifted, patterns of migration and emigration also changed; many Mississippians moved to less-rural regions in other states, and for a time emigration outweighed natural population growth.

Using the log-polar mapping of the traffic sign image, rotated and scaled patterns are converted into shifted patterns in the new space.

Using our approach we discover many classes of statistically significant shifted patterns for the root dataset.

For each gene we can then determine the shift yielding the most significant correlation, and rank all genes by this significance to find the most prominent shifted patterns.

The shift significance analysis however is crucial to our approach, which aims to detect similar but shifted patterns (see Background section above), and must therefore carefully weigh the relative significance of similarities across varying sizes of the comparison window.

Even in the wealthiest countries, shifting patterns of diet and lifestyle are leading to poor nutrition.

Outdoor apparel brand Patagonia has been at the vanguard of trying to shift patterns of consumption.

Shafts of light streamed down in shifting patterns like stained glass brought to life.

Restless gestures and shifting patterns were at once perfunctory and decisive.

And Balanchine fills the ballet with stage-sweeping ranks of corps dancers in shifting patterns.