Most experts in the Kilimanjaro debate accept three things: for more than a century, its ice has been in a retreat that is almost assuredly unstoppable and was not caused by humans; so far, there is scant data on conditions there; and the main scientific question now is how, and how much, climate shifts driven by heat-trapping emissions are accelerating that trend.
Without immigration, sink populations face extinction because deaths exceed births (e.g., because of unfavorable abiotic conditions, scant resources) [11].
Population-based epidemiological data inform clinical trial design but are scant in this condition.
The castle remained important to the defence of the border but fell into in poor repair: in 1564 it was described as in poor condition, "scant able to lodge the captain"; in 1580 another report reiterated similar problems; and in 1584 commissioners wrote that the poor maintenance over many years had left it need of repairs in the order of £200.
"What we are witnessing is the creeping casualisation of the teaching profession, with teachers increasingly being employed on short-term contracts with inferior conditions and scant job security.
Historically, income inequality has been shown to correlate with social unrest, and the current conditions of scant opportunities and ever-more concentrated wealth have been linked to a rise in protests and civil disobedience worldwide.
Nitrogen washout/washin for EELV measurement is available at the bedside, but assessments of accuracy and precision in real-life conditions are scant.
As a twenty-four-year-old widow with one surviving child, she depended on her unsympathetic father-in-law, who provided scant support on the condition that she not publish Shelley's poetry or write about him.
Record-low runoff and scant rainfall had created drought conditions.
How reliable these are is unclear, however – most of us would probably have scant details about the medical conditions of our own parents, let alone grandparents, cousins and so on.
