Time provides the temporal continuum in which the cosmos can develop and according to which the periods of the planets can be measured (see Zhmud 1998 for doubts that time should be included in the cosmology but note that Aristotle refers to time outside the cosmos not only in Fr. 201 but also at De Caelo 279a12, although without specifically mentioning the Pythagoreans).
He even spoke of ideas as "spreading" out through the same continuum in which mind is extended.
Thus Mendelian and complex traits can be seen as different ends of the same continuum in which multiple genetic and environmental effects impact disease risk and/or severity in a combination-dependent manner.
There are conditions, however, even in our corner of the space-time continuum, in which accepting less than nothing — essentially paying the federal government a fee for the promise to return your money in a month, or two or three — makes sense for a very large investor.
The analysis considers the soil as a layered elastic continuum in which the modulus varies linearly or non-linearly with depth within each layer.
The model envisions the cortex as a continuum in which pools of neurons are linked via chemical and electrical (gap-junction) synapses.
Two types of material gradations are considered; one is based on the continuum model in which material properties are assumed to be analytical functions (e.g. exponential or power law variation of material properties) and the other is based on the micromechanics model in which the effective material properties are determined by either the Mori–Tanaka or self-consistent scheme.
We model the foam as a continuum in which waves of dilatation and distortion can propagate, obtain approximate solutions for the frequency response of the system by means of a modal expansion, and find that the predictions are in close agreement with the measured responses.
Overall, genetic, cellular, and biochemical data indicate that most ciliopathies rather represent a continuum in which the phenotypic outcome is determined by the nature of the mutation in conjunction with the genetic background of the respective patient and oligogenic inheritance patterns.
To eliminate these flaws, the present study models the adhesive layer as a 2-D elastic continuum in which both the Hooke's law and equilibrium equations are fully satisfied.
