They are exemplars of a phenomenon known as island gigantism…the lack of competition for resources and paucity of predators afforded by isolated island life have allowed these insects to evolve into hulking, ponderous browsers.
Constraints of rationing and redistribution of scarce resources, the paucity of rigorous examination of critical care practice and the adaptive and emergent features of a complex interactive system undermines the logic of expecting the application of pockets of experimental evidence to lead naturally to improved outcomes for all patients.
(Years later, visiting art colleges in the US, he commented on the abundance of resources and corresponding paucity of the students' creativity, observing that he would supply them with nothing more than a knife and a potato).
Programmes such as the integrated community based home care (ICHC) models from South Africa [ 7] provide some ideas as to how such programmes may be implemented, though the dramatic paucity of resources for health care and of human resource in Malawi may limit replication.
Logistical and resource constraints, including the paucity of appropriately skilled educators, have been identified as inhibiting the implementation of interprofessional learning, as have diverse learning styles and levels of motivation in students [ 65, 66].
More remarkably, the country's apparent resurgence in the sport comes despite a paucity of resources that would embarrass Britain's tennis authorities which, despite lavish resources of £60m a year, can only dream of similar success.
So, the richness of last week's rhetoric from the government can't hide the continuing paucity of resources.
When corruption is very firmly established in governance, it is very difficult to know what is the paucity of resources.
While Feltham is a particularly fraught institution, many of its problems are to do with a paucity of resources.
Both are decent players, yet those numbers are an indication of the lack of depth in the domestic game's bowling, and that surely plays a part in England's relative paucity of resources at international level.
The very fact that Capello had felt compelled to lure Carragher out of a three-year international retirement, and King from the treatment room at Tottenham Hotspurtable, was indicative of the paucity of resources at his disposal.
