Since airstrikes began on March 26, the Saudi-led coalition has installed a de-facto blockade of the country, leading to sparse supplies of basic necessities such as fuel, cooking gas and food like wheat and rice.
Supposedly in order to spare unnecessary costs when the population is too sparse to supply the sufficient exoproduct level, many bacteria have evolved a simple chemical communication system called quorum sensing (QS), to "measure" the population density of clone-mates in their close neighborhood.
The doctors in Homs, working in makeshift hospitals with only sparse medical supplies, could not treat her, she said.
Activists in those areas had said they were mostly living without power for months, including during a snowy winter, and had only sparse food supplies.
Matrices can be made sparse by supplying an expression that defines which elements of the matrix should be executed.
The plan has ignited a fierce debate about potential increases in population, traffic, demands on sparse water supplies and air pollution in close proximity to a World Heritage Site prized for panoramic views of multihued canyons shaped by the erosive forces of water and wind.
The fixation approach supplies sparse but accurate 3D measurement in the AVS reference system, while the stereo acquisition of image pairs allows a dense 3D local reconstruction of the surface around the fixation point.
Groundwater is typically used to augment sparse surface water supplies in the arid, lower Basin, and across the entire Basin during drought [ Hutson et al., 2004; Kenny et al., 2009].
The existing literature on the effects of in-kind transfers on labour supply is sparse, despite the heavy expenditures that are devoted to such transfers.
