Sentence examples for appear to be patchy from inspiring English sources

Although there remain several legitimate criticisms against SIS, such as the produced model can appear to be patchy, variograms can control two-point statistical measures, cross-correlation between multiple categories is not explicitly controlled, etc., we however opted for the algorithm for some specific reasons for which SIS is chosen over any other conventional techniques (Deutsch 1998).

"This is a crime which easily spills over across borders, therefore there is a great need for co-operation and information sharing between the countries, but so far in west Africa that cooperation appears to be patchy" said Mukundan.

Last year's Royal Society report ("Science and mathematics education: the transition to higher education") noted that the provision of physics A-level in schools across the UK appeared to be patchy, with an overall figure across the UK of 22% of schools not entering a single candidate; this also seems to tie in with a shortage of specialist teachers.

In this area, food distribution is uneven and food appears to be patchy distributed (Figure 1).

Interestingly, homologs to the TvMULEs occur in other Trichomonad species, even though their distribution appears to be patchy.

Sequestration appears to be patchy within microvascular networks of each organ, but is more widespread in brain than retina.

The principle food source for L. kintorei is the termite Drepanotermes perniger [11] which has a naturally patchy distribution and burrow systems appear to be constructed in close proximity to the termite mounds.

Even though habitats with hard substrata are rare and patchy in the region, except on the seamount, biogeographic isolation does not appear to be common.

Because paa genes show a patchy phylogenetic distribution and previously observed paa clusters have diverse structures that appear to be independent of the species phylogeny, we felt that this pathway was important to study from an evolutionary standpoint.

First, the distribution of each sponge intron appears to be extremely patchy among animals, which suggests numerous independent losses for each intron.

However, the Notch1 staining appeared to be somewhat more patchy and irregular in K5-Ets1 BT skin than in wild-type skin.