Clean water, safe shelter and medicines are all scarce; one in three displaced children die before the age of 5, according to the United Nations.
Whereas many recent papers on specific aspects of Germany's transport policy exist, papers with a broader focus on Germany's transport policy for the period after reunification are scarce (one exception is [40], for an earlier comprehensive assessment see [5]) and some of them were only published in German language.
Blowing a takeoff or failing to catch a catchable wave usually sent one to the end of the queue for waves; this was an improvised but fierce arrangement, and in an aggressive crowd where waves were scarce one could easily be stuck there for the duration.
Incidence rates for Dutch nursing homes are scarce: one study found an incidence rate of 25% in the first four weeks after admission [ 10].
Although empirical evidence for their performance on these measures has been scarce, one of the most relevant studies is MEXT (2014b), which reports the test results of 70,000 randomly sampled third-year Japanese national or public high school students (Grade 12).
While evidence of the game's supposed popularity on social media is incredibly scarce, one thing is certain: kids making themselves pass out for two seconds of mild euphoria is far from new.
Studies employing cost-of-illness approach in periodontology are scarce; one such study is a Norwegian study which estimated lifelong cost of managing periodontitis in a specialist practice [ 4].
Although membership specifics are currently scarce, One Million Dads is billed as a group "for all men, not just fathers".
Using TBAs in such settings is therefore a pragmatic choice: "In communities where the supply of formal Western trained health practitioners is scarce, one has to use what he (or she) has on the ground.
Data on adverse bleeding from the randomised controlled trials are scarce: one trial reported two cases of fatal bleeding in the intervention arm (2/97 given vitamin E v 0/99 given placebo), 27 and one reported non-fatal bleedings (16/2231 given vitamin E v 14/2264 given placebo).
