The high variability at lower times matches with the high variability observed at intermediate glucose concentrations (similar to 1 mM) in Figure 9(b), which was observed to be due to the steepness of the response curve at those concentrations.
Soil mechanical and hydrological properties in addition to terrain steepness were hypothesised to be the major factors in causing soil slides.
Note that the left-tail is somewhat more difficult to estimate due to its steepness, whereas the right-tail (reflecting positive effects, in which we are interested) is very accurately estimated.
Fundamental to these assertions is that the strength of natural selection leading to reproductive isolation and speciation is related to the steepness of the environmental gradient [6], [8], where steepness refers to the rate of environmental turnover per unit geographic distance.
However, due to the steepness of the hill leading to the shore-line on the Surrey side neither ferry service was able to transport carriages or heavily laden carts, forcing them to make a very lengthy detour via Kingston Bridge.
That we keep going around in circles about this probably testifies to the steepness of the challenge he poses to the moral and historical imagination.
Glass and Kauffman observed that the behaviour of these regulatory networks was remarkably insensitive to the steepness of the sigmoids, and suggested to use Heaviside or step function in stead of sigmoids as dose-response functions to simplify the models and their analysis.
It takes longer than an hour to travel by motorcycle from the village to this boarding school in the valley due to the steepness of the road and its many winding curves.
The models have been designed using results of the set of steady numerical simulations computed by k–∊ V2F turbulence model for various configurations defined by selection of ratio H/λ in range from 0.6 to 1.4, steepness ratio λ/a in range from 20 to 200 and bulk velocity Ub in range of Reynolds number Re= HUb/ν from 3830 to 89,366.
Fitting data from native muscle fibers requires combinations of n and α in which
