"These blocks will soon be producing oil in close proximity to the reefs, but the environmental baseline compiled by the companies and the Brazilian government is still incipient and largely based on sparse museum specimens.
"These blocks will soon be producing oil in close proximity to the reefs, but the environmental baseline compiled by the companies and the Brazilian government is still incipient and largely based on sparse museum specimens. .
Apoptotic cells (arrowheads) were sparse in the specimens from 6-month old fish, somewhat more abundant in those from 16-month old fish, and frequent in those from 24-month old fish (Fig. 3D).
4– 8, 10, 11 This wide variability in diagnostic rates results from multiple factors including patient population, sampling issues (sparse or bloody specimens, technical artifacts, etc)., and interpretative subjectivity.
Thus, the columns of the specimens had sparse transverse reinforcement, the beam-column joint region was unconfined and the longitudinal reinforcement of the adjacent beam had straight anchorage of insufficient length in the joint.
By the late Middle Miocene, the African record of fossil apes becomes very sparse; a few fragmentary specimens span the intervening time prior to the appearance of the earliest fossil humans around seven million years ago.
Because microvessels are usually very sparse in prostate biopsy specimens, the correlation between microvessels and mast cell infiltration was not examined in the present study.
Likewise, seeds are usually sparse or absent on herbarium specimens of species in sections Odoratae and Grandiflorae.
In tolbutamide-treated specimens, myelinated fibers were sparse (9.6±3 MBP-positive fibers/slice) and less than that observed in vehicle-treated slices.
Strychnos pseudoquina, a Brazilian evergreen whose bark is used for treating fever, came close, but its sweetly scented flowers are even smaller than Poinar's specimens, and its petal hairs are sparse and long, rather than dense and matted.
N = 255 (22 sparse growth and 233 significant growth), voided urine specimens in 2003 and 2012 from patients with known antibiotic treatment history.
