nonmonotonic
- adjective
- /nɒnˈmɒnəˌtɒnɪk/
- Specialized
:
no monotónico
- The study found a nonmonotonic relationship where the effect of the drug increased to a point before diminishing with higher doses.
- nonmonotonic logics
Examples
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The GAM results in Figure 1 are similar to the quintile results, suggesting increasing diabetes risk with increasing serum PCBs, but possibly via a nonmonotonic relationship, with a decrease between about 3 ppb and 7 ppb.
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In addition, the temporal trend for DEHP metabolites in adults and adolescents was nonmonotonic, with the highest LSGM concentrations in 2005-2006.
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It should be noted that ASP has solid logic foundations and is closely linked to nonmonotonic reasoning.
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Close connection to nonmonotonic logics provides ASP with the power to model default negation and, more generally, to deal with incomplete information.
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In particular, Dung (1995) has shown the ability of the formalism to capture as instances several other approaches, especially in the area of nonmonotonic reasoning.
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Given the fact that ASP has roots in knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning, its usage for problem solving in artificial intelligence (AI) has been investigated early on.
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Using logistic and GAM modeling, we observed a nonmonotonic increase in the prevalence of diabetes with increasing PCB congener levels in the total group after adjustment for established diabetes risk factors.
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It has been argued that nonmonotonic, low-dose effects could be a characteristic feature of many POPs (Gregoraszczuk et al. 2008; Haase et al. 2009; Kim et al. 2010; Lee et al. 2007), but the present study produced very little evidence to support this.
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Analysis revealed that the population's growth showed a nonmonotonic trend, with periods of increase followed by unexpected declines.
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During the experiment, the data indicated a nonmonotonic pattern in water temperature, which fluctuated significantly over the months.
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Etymology
The word nonmonotonic is made from non- meaning 'not' and mono- meaning 'one', and it links to monotone meaning 'one, unchanging tone'. So, nonmonotonic describes a pattern or process that does not move only up or only down but can change direction or go up and down.