There was ∼30% patchy, well-delineated interstitial fibrosis with proportional tubular atrophy and moderate lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate.
GLUT-1 and CA-IX staining showed patchy as well as increased expression adjacent to necrosis.
Data on the activities of present-day pirates in Somalia are more, well, patchy.
Irregular or patchy zoning as well as sector zoning are also observed in some of the crystals.
They were also rated as having a more swollen face, redder eyes, less glossy and less patchy skin as well as a more drooping mouth, hanging eyelids and – in particular – paler lips.
The quality of reporting cyber-attacks in the mainstream media can be, well, patchy.
These patchy animals moved well and had no morphogenetic defects, although they had few or no progeny.
And the safety net is thin as well as patchy.
Although China's IT industry is patchy and much less well organised than India's, this is likely to change in the next five years: China already churns out more IT engineers than India.
As you can imagine, when you stick "palaeo" in front of it and apply it to fossils, not only will you win at scrabble, but produce a science often confounded by a patchy fossil record, as well as the changing configuration of the continents, natural disasters, and many other biological and geographical phenomena.
It allows pastoralists to opportunistically take advantage of patchy livestock resources as well as maintain multi-species herds (Behnke 1994; Mogamat 2013) and to continue strengthening the social networks (Bassett and Koné 2006).
