The vertical axis (Y axis) is the compounded portfolio return and the horizontalaxis (X axis) is portfolio risk as measured by the annual standard deviation of return.
That is plotting cigarette tax revenue as a percentage of GDP (vertical axis) against the percentage of the pricer of a packet of cigarettes that is tax (horizontal axis).
On the horizontalaxis of each graph, we have total traffic-related air pollution exposure, increasing in parts per billion (a part here would be a drop in a billion drops) from left to right.
By plotting perceived humanness along the horizontalaxis and eeriness along the vertical, Dr MacDorman says that he can recreate Dr Mori's chart of the uncanny valley, this time using real data about how people feel about a particular robot or animation.
The 3-axis Photo Image Stabilization mechanically compensates for rotary shift as well as horizontal and vertical angular shift to further enhance still images and eliminate blur.