In recent months there has been much gnashing of teeth over young people flooding into these positions, unpaid or poorly paid, with scant observation of working rights, desperate to get a foot on the career ladder.
Accordingly, we will focus on data from human subjects, but drawing on findings made in other animals and disease models where relevant observations are scant or absent in our species.
Yet, for a profession that prides itself on the application of experimentation and observation to find truth, scant attention has been paid to improving the institution of peer review, despite the pressure to evolve this time-honored tradition.
Although observations of living goblin sharks are scant, its anatomy suggests its lifestyle is inactive and sluggish.
There is scant evidence regarding the protective effect of close observation [ 25] and we have shown that a high level of observation may be ineffective in patients who are determined to leave the ward.
Nevertheless, there is scant research studying the cost-effectiveness of the recommended observation-based strategy and its variants.
The effect had long been predicted, but observations showing that it is occurring have been scant.
Quantitative data are scant, but an analysis of multiple ethnicities leads to tentative observations.
The large amount of chondroid matrix that can be present in these tumours and the relatively scant malignant cells, even when the cells are poorly differentiated, makes this observation easy to comprehend.
Data relating to Muslim take-up of digital alternative worlds is scant, and anybody who doesn't identify themselves primarily by their religion won't easily be distinguishable by casual observation.
