successive period

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Seeds with long germination times could pass through successive periods of exposure and burial as chowchillas and other vertebrates repeatedly visited an area.
The course was divided into four successive periods of three to four weeks for the purpose of data analysis.
The values were plotted against the number of females recovered in the five successive periods up to 23 weeks.
For reasons of computer time and costs the simulation was stopped when the differences in successive periods became small.
Note that inter-period constraints are permitted between successive periods only.
Furthermore, there are temporal constraints among instantiations of program variables in successive periods; such relationships cannot be captured by simple linear programming models.
In the first experiment, a difference of 20 % was detected between the two successive periods with basically no mortality during the second period.
First, since the money wage is fixed for two successive periods, it is a kind of average of the optimal one.
Capital flows are defined by the difference between foreign assets in two successive periods.
If one agent defects, all agents will return to the closed-loop equilibrium strategies for all successive periods.
By allowing the conidiospores to grow for three successive periods of 5 days even very low initial virus concentrations had time to reproduce to a detectable level.
Successive periods of abandonment of agricultural fields and pastures and the expansion of land under preserve protection have resulted in a mosaic of secondary vegetation and old-growth forest.
Colonial bureaucratic corruption is then examined in two successive periods of dictatorial power : that exerted by captain generals (1833-68) and that prevailing in colonial civil war (1868-78).
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