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Surface particles of 3DD and 6DD were between 100 and 400 nm (Figure2, B5 and C5) and clustered, but they were sparse and distributed randomly (Figure2, B3, B4, C3, and C4).

In the upper subplate, immunopositive neurons were numerous, whereas they were sparse and dispersed in the inner subplate.

Regulatory air measurements were not used as they were sparse and collected near highways.

Functional capillaries were seen only in the periphery of the tumours and they were sparse in central parts.

Our result shows that although minor adverse events were more frequent in the acupuncture group than in the other study groups, they were sparse.

Moreover, nodes were densely linked with each other in a sub-network module, but they were sparse or had no connections between the subnetwork modules.

The dark sunspots are encircled by brighter areas, so when they are plentiful, the sun shines more brightly than when they are sparse.

Because of this, one can represent the disparities in a domain in which they are sparse.

They are sparse, and produce very little fruit.

Regions of parameter space in which desirable networks are dense converge in few iterations, whereas regions where they are sparse require more iterations for convergence.

To guide these choices more studies on cost-effectiveness are needed as, at present, they are sparse and their results not conclusive [ 25].