Sentences with phrase «paucity of data on»

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.

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.

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

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.

It seems odd to accept such a paucity of data on Neptune and Mars, while quesitoning the vast amount of data on global tmeperature and using his site to suggest that poor siting issues derail global warming completely (see my # 41).

Not exact matches

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.

Given the paucity of hard data on which to calculate probable costs and benefits, how can responsible decisions be made in the midst of this uncertainty?

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

Even some of the scientists who are supportive of Oren's quest have a hard time reconciling the paucity of mapinguari data with the rigor of his work on birds and biodiversity.

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.

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.

The tail end of Zeller's post closes in on the real issue — the paucity of reliable data on nearly every front.

Unfortunately, the paucity of validation data places severe limits on their sensitivity.

Because of the paucity of data and incomplete information on current practices, the Department has consistently made conservative assumptions (that is, given uncertainty, we have made assumptions that, if incorrect, are more likely to overstate rather than understate the true cost).

Because of the paucity of data regarding preschoolers and adolescents with ADHD, the literature review focused on studies involving elementary - school - aged children.