Scarce educational facilities, the failure of governments to attract qualified teachers to work in the often remote areas where indigenous people live and the perceived irrelevance of much of the school curriculum for the local community - all of these act as disincentives to school participation.
One hundred recalls of consumer products, e.g., home electronics, in the Japanese market identified two design problems; aging degradation causing failure to meet functional requirements (FR) over extended use and scarce FR-coupling failure that affect meeting other FRs.
The experimental determination of the failure time probability distribution of highly reliable components, such as those used in nuclear and aerospace applications, is intrinsically difficult due to the lack, or scarce significance, of failure data which can be collected during the relatively short test periods.
Unfortunately, data regarding risk factors associated with failure are scarce.
"There must be no excuse for failure, and scarce taxpayer resources must not be wasted," the report said.
Data on the cost-effectiveness of combination therapy compared to ACE inhibitor therapy alone for the treatment of congestive heart failure are scarce.
In fact, recent data on intervention in volume status in heart failure are scarce.
Animal data suggest pulmonary vasodilating properties and levosimendan has been suggested for the treatment of right ventricular (RV) failure despite scarce data in patients [ 1].
Whereas the role of fluid resuscitation has been extensively investigated in non-cirrhotic patients with sepsis-associated circulatory failure, data on fluid resuscitation in cirrhotic patients with this specific type of pre-renal kidney failure are scarce.
The data supporting the higher risk for anemia in women compared with men with heart failure are scarce, in part because of the overwhelming male predominance in most CHF studies.
An economist would say that wildlife had an inherent comparative advantage in drylands but was undervalued by market failures so that scarce resources were being misallocated to the detriment of society.
