The value of hunted individuals was related to both the characteristic trophy size of the species (which is highly correlated with body size) and to the perceived rarity and availability of the species, as advertised by IUCN rating.
This will vary between disease areas in response to many factors, such as disease complexity or rarity, new guideline availability, individual clinician experience with the disease in question and available time.
— With competitive races in Congress a rarity in California, the unexpected availability of a seat here has set off a sudden and furious chase, with at least a dozen candidates and a mélange of political styles and personal storylines.
Due to sample availability, given the rarity and small sample sizes of leukoplakia lesions, we were able to validate the top six genes from our analysis, which have also been described to play key roles in cancer-related pathways.
Rarity, thus, becomes more a question of availability than of actual physical reserves, and that availability can be influenced by a variety of forces.
Despite its relative rarity in the general population and the availability of standard treatment through surgical intervention and platinum chemotherapy, epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) continues to be the most insidious and lethal gynecologic malignancy in the western world.
Though it seems most foreign Christmas attendees in Bethlehem are Christians, I spoke to some American Jews visiting from Israel and many Palestinian Muslims also attend the festivities, especially young men, who are drawn in by the concerts and the availability of relatively cheap alcohol a rarity in Muslim areas of Palestine.
Other conditions of interest, such as cancer, could not be examined because of their rarity pre-retirement and limits of data availability in this still relatively young cohort all actively working at least as recently as 1996.
Research in the field of GN has been substantially limited by the rarity of the disease and the poor availability and substantial cost of detailed registries with long-term follow-up that sample large source populations [ 1, 23].
These result from its retrospective design, the rarity of the disease investigated, and the short availability of AQP4-Ab testing.
The benefit of hunting to conservation could be maximized by taking account of how size and rarity combine to influence value, particularly if co-operation among countries for license availability can be achieved.
