Sentences with phrase «paucity of data»

As pertinent as demographic factors are in explaining the variability of depressive symptoms, there is paucity of data in Nigeria in particular, and West Africa in general, hence the need to bring into lime light the association between depression symptoms and socio - demographic factors in a General Outpatients Clinic in Nigeria, West Africa.

The survey provides an important snapshot of the experiences and circumstances of kinship carers and the children they are raising, helping overcome the significant paucity of data on children in kinship care and their carers.

There is lack of DNA sequence data for a head - to - head chromosomal fusion, there also exists a decided paucity of data to indicate a cryptic centromere.

«The first point that's obvious in any scientific reading of the field is the extreme paucity of data,» says Franklin Zimring, a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley.

This paucity of data has the pernicious effect that any claim of an effect by foreign investment on urban real estate could be true or could be false.

In the light of modem scholarship, these are bound to fail not only because of the paucity of data but also because the Christians of the first century were not preoccupied with ministry as office.

But the real problem is not the paucity of the data.

This approach has been restricted, however, by a paucity of data showing how well sludge competes with chemical fertilizers.

Governments, agencies and many in the public have complained about the paucity of data being made available by the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power, the company that owns and operates the facility.

«The paucity of data on the correct definition of the most appropriate [blood pressure] target in elderly patients, highlighted by the few available trials, should be perceived as a stimulus for future research in Asia, not as an argument for questioning the benefit of treatment,» they write.

«Because statins are used primarily in adults, there is a paucity of data for child and infant patients.

Even as European regulators act, however, scientists are divided on whether pollinators are exposed to enough of the pesticides to pose a grave threat to their colonies, in part because of a paucity of data and the challenges of doing rigorous field trials.

«Below - ground plant ecology has been understudied, limited by a paucity of data,» he said.

That paucity of data can leave physicians and their families unsure about whether a child might need a repeat dose of antibiotics — or a different kind — or whether lingering symptoms might have a different cause.

The paucity of data in the more remote past makes the hottest - in - a-millennium claims essentially unverifiable.

BACKGROUND Whether endovascular stroke treatment improves clinical outcomes is unclear because of the paucity of data from randomised placebo - controlled trials.

The paucity of data regarding population status of emperor penguins is largely due to the logistical difficulties of accessing potential emperor penguin breeding habitat in areas of Antarctica that are not in close proximity to research stations.

«Part of the reason there's such a paucity of data is because it's not easy to get approval to overtrain someone,» she says.

And given the paucity of data and questionable management that could be running these companies, how does one do the due diligence and get comfortable that the data is correct so that we don't get blindsided?

The paucity of the data is a real problem for this study.

Most of the legislative activity in 2018 is a quiet effort to persuade legislators to treat veterinary medicine differently than human medicine for a host of reasons, anchored by a view that this is fundamentally a crisis in human health care and that a paucity of data links opioid abuse to pet health care.

As our discussion so far indicates, this is a tricky problem, exacerbated by a paucity of data points.

That's produced a pattern I've seen on a host of similar environmental issues: A paucity of data leads to a overabundance of assertion.

To date, a paucity of data exists regarding these methods utilized in the drive hunts.

He also suggests it'd be valuable for me to do a story more broadly examining the tension over interpreting dramatic shortish - term events in a realm still beset by a paucity of data, and in some cases, even hypotheses.

There's important work to be done on this question but — as the oceanographer Carl Wunsch notes at the end of this post — the paucity of data on ocean heat makes it tough to get beyond «maybe» answers.

But because of the paucity of data south of the equator, they can't rule out the possibility that for brief periods in the past, recent warming might have been topped.

The warming during the early / mid warming phase looks spatially similar to the present warming phase presumably with very different forcings (i acknowledge the paucity of data).

The paucity of data in the more remote past makes the hottest - in - a-millennium claims essentially unverifiable.

Complicating debates about the costs of agrichar is the paucity of data on the subject.

Due to the paucity of data in the Southern Hemisphere, recent studies have emphasized the reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere (NH) mean, rather than global mean temperatures over roughly the past 1000 years.

Therefore, this proposed reconstruction could alleviate some of the problems generated by the paucity of data, and stimulate new and enhanced observational programs.

The increase in salinity north of 72 ° N (Arctic Ocean) is highly uncertain because of the paucity of data in this region.

In spite of a century of work, there is a paucity of data on how the ice sheet has changed in the past, limiting our ability to compare current trends, or constrain ice - sheet and climate models.

The root problems include a paucity of data, existing data that is inaccessible or unusable, uncoordinated data collecting across diverse sectors, lack of mechanisms for sharing data, institutional resistance to collecting data and a culture that lacks experience with and understanding of empirical methods.»

Although it has automatic activity tracking, I was surprised at the paucity of data recorded.

Relatedly, there is a paucity of data on the utility of these measures in minority versus majority populations.

Fifth, we did not correct for type 1 error given the paucity of data available in Latino youth with type 1 diabetes.