Sentence examples for find patchy from inspiring English sources

Evidence is hard to find, patchy and often contradictory.

On the basis of limited previous observations [14], [16], [17] we expected to find patchy aggregations of ants infected with Ophiocordyceps.

Despite high specificity when using the same Cre driver lines in a previous study in combination with a different optogenetic probe, we found patchy off-target ChR2 expression in cryo-sections and extended z-stack imaging through the ventricular wall of hearts cleared using CLARITY.

Using immunocytochemistry, Gomez-Sanchez et al. [83] found patchy low expression of H6PDH in the brain that was not fully congruent with 11β-HSD1.

A recent review of experience with indigenous land titling in Inter-American Developrojectsnk (Ialso projects also found patchy experience across, within and between projects in the same country (Plant and Hvalkof, 2001).

Other studies, using both seismic [ Anandakrishnan et al., 1998] and gravity [ Bell et al., 1998; Studinger et al., 2001] techniques have also found patchy to thin (<∼300 m) sediments through most of the West Antarctic Rift System with thicker (>1 km) sediments in narrow (20 35 km wide) fault-bounded basins, which are often associated with the onset of ice streams.

Large swarms of insects in the temperate zones occur mainly during the summer, explaining why males profiting from information transfer to find this patchy but abundant resource more efficiently only from short-lived colonies.

Consistent with the patchy expression of Fgf8 in only some topographic OHCs we found a patchy aberration of stereocilia where some 'OHCs' had stereocilia twice as thick as others, resembling the diameter of inner hair cell stereocilia (Fig. 8M,N).

Their apartment, they have found, receives patchy cellphone reception.

What it found was patchy at best, so it put together 20 of its own country-based maps.

In Provence, the highest occurrence probability for this species was found in patchy landscapes and scrub and/or herbaceous vegetation.