be on an upward/downward trajectory

trajectory | American Dictionary

trajectory
noun[ C ]
us/trəˈdʒek·tə·ri/
physics
the curved path an object follows after it is thrown or shot into the air, or of an object that is traveling through space:
The missile came in on a very low trajectory.

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Finally, the extent of negative consequences of a disorder can vary as a function of normative developmental trajectories.
Our second test of the development of coping assessed relations between the adolescent trajectories of coping and active, avoidant, and cognitive coping in young adulthood.
Although post hoc classification of youth to various developmental trajectories has heuristic value, this method is fraught with problems as well.
Given the three time points available for these analyses, linear trajectories were estimated for each construct.
However, recently there have been attempts made to devise statistical methods for classifying subjects into groups based on their developmental trajectories.
One important advantage of the latent class modeling approach described above is that it leads straightforwardly to tests of gender differences in offending trajectories.
The design of the current study precluded us from examining how the development of temperament may influence trajectories of symptomatology in early childhood.
Identical offending trajectories applied for males and females.
Of particular importance is identifying the role that parenting plays in trajectories from exposure to child problem behavior.
From this work, a more complex picture emerges about the developmental trajectories of children harmed both early and later in life.
Are the developmental trajectories smooth and continuous, or are there jumps corresponding to timelinked events in the child's life?
Every change in the number of droplets affects the movement of the remaining droplets immediately; the trajectories are non-smooth.
A numerical procedure for finding accessible trajectories on basin boundaries.
Depending on the parameters selected, and the initial conditions, the simulated temporal trajectories may exhibit either regular (periodic and quasi-periodic) or chaotic behaviour.
The stereoscopic relations which convert the images of the bead trajectories to the three-dimensional velocity field are given in the appendix.
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developmental trajectory
First, understanding the phenotypic outcome of an ability may require understanding the ability's developmentaltrajectory.
different trajectory
Moreover, prostate and some other cancers follow a differenttrajectory.
evolutionary trajectory
The target article nicely reviews two hypotheses about the evolutionary trajectory that led to the mammalian isocortex, and presents compelling arguments in favor of one of them.
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