What emerges from Guardian Australia's analysis of the immigration department's own records on the use of its isolation rooms are lengthy periods of restrictive detention, approved by staff without medical training, and with patchy reporting of when and for how long the rooms have been used.
A mixture of savvy PR from the US government and patchy reporting from international media means that most of us don't even know it happened.
There was patchy reporting of the causes of postoperative death, with the most frequent causes being hepatic failure, postoperative haemorrhage, and sepsis.
Epidemic simulations and adaptive disease management modelling in real time are still unrealistic for plant epidemics occurring in trade networks for which there is no information about the network structure, particularly when disease monitoring is patchy and reporting is slower than the epidemic.
Early tests in Brazil are promising in reducing mosquito populations, but this has to be a patchy remedy and reports of bureaucratic obstacles suggest the usual delay.
In China and Nigeria, countries afflicted with patchy transportation networks, he reports on efforts to build more and better roads, success that has resulted in bigger traffic and social problems.
Brazil's health-care system is very patchy, as a recent report by the AIDS ministry for the UN shows.
Bosnia joined the consortium from this year but reporting was patchy in Eastern and South Eastern Europe.
61 Patchy retinochoroidal atrophy was reported in two adults with AS. 62 The author knows of one deletion patient with bilateral ocular pterygia requiring corneal transplantation to restore vision.
Another interesting finding in our series is the absence of WMA abnormalities at baseline examination, suggesting that they are neither directly referable to the patchy areas of fibrosis reported in the literature [ 2, 42] nor to atherosclerotic CAD, but rather to the expression of a functional defect, preceding the anatomical lesion, as seen during stress [ 25].
In contrast to LTR retrotransposons that have been found in a wide continuous range of species [ 39, 46, 47], DIRS1-like elements have a more patchy distribution being yet reported only in a restricted number of phylogenically diverse eukaryote organisms (Table 1) [ 41, 43, 46, 48- 56].
