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intermittency

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intermittency [‚in·tər′mit·ən·sē]
(physics)
The alternation in time of a dynamical system between nearly periodic and chaotic behavior.


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This lack of sensitivity may be due to the intermittency of virus shedding, the timing of sample collection, and the type of specimens collected.
Moreover, they say, the new findings have expanded the frontiers of chaos theory by demonstrating a path of sudden transitions in and out of chaotic behavior, known as intermittency, that had been predicted but never before seen experimentally.
At the same time sober voices are asking questions about issues such as cost, contribution to base load and intermittency
 
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