Sentence examples for paucity of observations from inspiring English sources

The paucity of observations of peppered moths in their natural resting sites has often been highlighted (e.g., Clarke et al. 1985; Wells 2001; Hooper 2002).

As in Experiment 1, the lowest two confidence bins were combined across different confidence levels for further analyses, owing to the relative paucity of observations at the lower ends of the confidence scale.

The paucity of observations of the unusual geometry seen at the Adriatic margin suggests that only rarely does the shore and fluvial sediment discharge overreach the shelf edge and cut off along-strike sediment transport to continental margins.

Perhaps preeminent among the problems in this category have been difficulties in understanding the dispersal dynamics of the moth, lack of knowledge of the longevity of the moth, and a paucity of observations of peppered moths at rest in the wild during the day.

The constraints in the parameter space allow observations from later periods to influence the estimates of π j in earlier periods; in this way these early π j 's can 'borrow strength' from the later periods, to make up for the paucity of observations.

Given the paucity of observations used in the original research, and given that we now have many more years of observation on the effects of living wages in the cities that passed them earlier, and new living wage laws in numerous cities, it is an opportune time to update the evidence on the effects of living wage laws, and that is the goal of this paper.

In proglacial rivers, there is typically a paucity of thermal observations which in turn limits the understanding of these sensitive and evolving environments.

Both events appear consistent with a surface rupture in the region south and west of Kathmandu, given the paucity of the observations (only one trench published from Koilabas).

In our case, due to the paucity of such observations, it was not possible to consider a model like this.

Given the paucity of prospective observations, development of clear definitions for NS research is required, as well as prospective collection of biomarker candidates during the course of NS to design appropriately powered randomized treatment studies.

There are many examples where such linking models provide the desired accuracy and precision of forest parameter estimates for small areas where paucity of inventory plot observations preclude design-based inference.