Sentence examples for spread and shape from inspiring English sources

In Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women (The Overlook Press), Kate Cooper *93 explores the role played by women in helping spread and shape the early Christian movement.

In addition to a shift in the centroid of each cluster of symbols, the spread and shape of the symbol clusters may also be modified, e.g., due to nonlinear intersymbol interference (ISI).

Overall, a deeper understanding of the relationship between personal and socio-economic factors and students' achievement can be provided by a quantile regression approach which allows a more complete understanding of how the response distribution is affected by predictors by obtaining information about changes in location, spread and shape (Hao and Naiman 2007).

Therefore, as multiple quantiles can be modeled, it would be possible to achieve a more complete understanding of how the response distribution is affected by predictors by obtaining information about changes in location, spread and shape (Koenker 2005; Davino et al. 2013).

Their thinking leans quite naturally toward the quick fix consistent with an alarmist and historically suspect worldview, quite possibly derived from CNN, inscribed in the justification of the federal budget proposed for 2015: "Global events and trends now start, spread, and shape countries in an instant".

This effect indicates underlying differences in the proportion of cell cell to cell-surface adhesion in 2i as compared to LIF/serum, leading to differences in colony spreading and shape.

I.S.I. was one of several groups behind the campus conservative movement of the 1980's, which gave rise to Dinesh D'Souza, Ann Coulter and Ralph Reed, all former college right-wingers who are today leaders in spreading and shaping the Republican Party message.

By this model, power delay profiles are simply described by a -factor, a root-mean-squared delay spread, and a shape parameter.

The generalized gamma distribution is characterized by a location parameter β that defines the position of the distribution median, a scale parameter σ that reflects the distribution's spread, and a shape parameter κ that defines the family of the distribution (lognormal, gamma, Weibull, etc).

The nuclei showed spread and dumbbell shapes (Fig. 4C).

Increasingly, too, they get together with their competitors in the same industry in an effort to set common rules, spread the risk and shape opinion.All this is largely defensive, but companies like to stress that there are also opportunities to be had for those that get ahead of the game.