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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a scarce sample" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a limited or rare example of something, often in contexts like research, statistics, or collections.
Example: "Due to the rarity of the species, we were only able to collect a scarce sample for our study."
Alternatives: "a limited sample" or "a rare sample".
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Firstly, a 'large sample of grey wolves' [ 1] for the DNA sequence data is in fact a scarce sample of 28 grey wolves (data set: 4811 bp; Table 2, [ 1]), of which 8 (28.6%) are from Israel.
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A scarce sampling of the Old World Pomadasys species prevents us to definitively point to a New World origin of the sub-familiy Hamulinae, however our data suggest that this is likely to be the case.
In fact, sample pooling has been used in a number of -omic studies because it is cost-efficient and suitable for scarce sample models [ 22, 23].
Given the trend of ever decreasing computation expense, carrying out exhaustive cross-validation is increasingly attractive, particularly when scarce sample data can be used for training as opposed to external testing.
Furthermore, the system allows chemical and simultaneous biochemical screening of scarce sample types only obtainable in very low volumes, such as precious natural extracts, animal venoms, cell, and tissue lysates.
Moreover, simulations were exclusively based on substitutional patterns derived from functionally highly constrained ndhF and rbcL data sets with a scarce taxon sampling and a very rough estimation of phylogeny by neighbor-joining.
In this paper, the design of an output predictor in a system with random scarce sampling is addressed.
Current work estimates probabilistic fatigue life efficiently with scarce samples.
To demonstrate the suitability of MMIHC for scarce samples, it was also applied successfully to tissues from needle biopsies.
However, this could be solely due to very scarce sampling of our data set.
It is now possible to characterize genome sequences of scarce samples or even single cells.
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