Epidemiologic data on malaria are scant in many high-burden countries including the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which suffers the second-highest global burden of malaria.
Furthermore, unlike the nucleus, which boasts an arsenal of DNA-proofreading proteins, mitochondria direct scant resources toward error-checking; the burden falls on a single protein, DNA polymerase-g.
Scant information exists regarding the social burden caused by abdominal obesity.
Where once the regulated, unionized and semi-socialized capitalism of the mid-20th century produced a vibrant middle class majority, the deregulated, deunionized and financialized capitalism of the past 35 years has produced record levels of inequality, a shrinking middle class, and scant economic opportunities (along with record economic burdens) for the young.
History texts gave it scant recognition, other than noting how its presence burdened white Americans.
All these campaigns lay the heavy burden of responsibility at the victims' doorsteps with scant attention paid to the real culprits.
International reluctance at taking on the burden of Afghanistan's long-term security was indicated by the scant attention given the issue at conferences in Berlin and Tokyo debating Kabul's postwar government and economic development.
For the inspectors, it is a grinding task, burdened by knowledge that hawks in the Bush administration have scant faith in their ability to strip Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction, after the evasion and intransigence with which the Iraqis met an earlier generation of United Nations inspectors in the 1990's.
Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson, who was appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush, wrote that the burden imposed by Kansas' proof-of-citizenship law "cannot be justified by the scant evidence of noncitizen voter fraud that occurred in Kansas before the law was passed".
Although there is a scant literature describing the prevalence of depression in Bangladesh, there is an assumption that the burden of mental disorders on the Bangladeshi population is high [ 9].
