Sentence examples for appear to be sparse from inspiring English sources

Investigations of these and other variables for estimating miombo AGB appear to be sparse, and further exploration is warranted.

Although the protuberances described by this research group appear to be sparse, not as well-formed or preserved, the size measurements in one transmission electron micrograph is in close approximation of the sizes of C. gattii fibrils seen in our study [46].

Further, reported side effects of Ang-2 blocking appear to be sparse compared to other anti-angiogenic therapies employed [ 53, 82].

By most criteria the development of Eastern (as compared with Western) children's literature still appears to be sparse and tentative.

In the disputed North, occupied until recently by nomadic rebel separatists, the Tuareg, turnout appeared to be sparse; last week, five election officials were kidnapped, and later released, and independence-minded sentiment is still strong.

For compressed depth maps, the depth range appears to be sparse due to the quantization effect.

Whereas emerging data suggest that E. gracilis is well endowed with spliceosomal introns [ 21- 23], intron distribution appears to be sparse in heteroloboseans [ 24].

It is to be emphasized that macroeconomic matrices of high dimensions often appear to be very sparse in practice, up to more than 90% of zero elements.

However, exposure variables appear to be very sparse in the sense that most of these variables are absent for the majority of the patients.

Close inspection on DOT-based functional brain images reveals that most of reconstructed images appear to be in a sparse format, where most of image elements are zeros with respect to the unchanged background; only a few of them are nonzero due to changes induced by cortical activations.

However, these nesquehonite film aggregates were sparse and did not appear to be a major contributor to the carbonate in the microbial mats.