Sentences with phrase «scant data»

There are scant data on whether stopping the clock actually hurts a faculty member's chance of receiving tenure.

Previous efforts to quantify global fishing have relied on a hodgepodge of scant data culled from electronic monitoring systems on some vessels, logbooks and onboard observers.

However, there are only scant data on whether animals do indeed travel along such strips, let alone whether they mate with inhabitants of other patches.

Even if Rhee was objectively justified in removing over two hundred teachers, her actions reinforced the fears of many teachers that linking teacher evaluations to student performance will result in wholesale layoffs that are based on scant data viewed by many as suspect.

Scant data herein took multiple searches using multiple online engines... and no, I did not use Google for most of this.

PHEVs and BEVs represent a tiny fraction of the vehicles sold in China, and also in India, though there is scant data in the case of India.

Extraordinary that quite learned people talk of max temps as being interchangeable with temps, ignoring how - hot - when, and how - hot - for - how - long, and how - hot - why — all of which you think would be the main subjects of eager scientific inquiry, however scant the data.

Having gleaned same insights during my own years of ministry and in counseling both male and female clergy, I can offer some tentative deductions from the new and scant data on women in the clergy and from my own files on the personal and professional concerns of several hundred clergy of both sexes.

After poring over the literature, Mendum and Njenga reported that little previous empirical research into wood burning in sub-Saharan Africa has been conducted, so policy makers have scant data to guide them in formulating best practices for sustainable biomass production and consumption.

Based on these scant data points, they then guess what the world's composition and climate might be like.

Mission engineers will be working through the night to process the scant data from the probe to try to find out what went wrong and whether recovery is possible.

Those predictions, such as the Cox report, were clearly wrong, based as they were on the scant data then available.

For the longest time, we had scant data on gifted - and - talented programs in U.S. public schools.

Most experts in the Kilimanjaro debate accept three things: for more than a century, its ice has been in a retreat that is almost assuredly unstoppable and was not caused by humans; so far, there is scant data on conditions there; and the main scientific question now is how, and how much, climate shifts driven by heat - trapping emissions are accelerating that trend.