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The ways in which criteria have been selected and operationalised has been subjected to only scant discussion.
There is scant evidence for this pheno menon, however.
However, scant attention has been given to the idea that poor communication may also have an economic impact worthy of attention.
In the absence of historical documents, one can first look at the scant available ethnohistorical data.
Moreover, this possible situation might be reinforced by the scant view toward the future with respect to the lack of applicability analyses in most cases.
Relevant practice pattern studies are scant and will be needed to confirm the validity of this model.
Yiddish "grammar," as we shall soon see, must by its very nature be scant and without many rules.
Here, the need to consolidate constituencies has left factions with scant room for manoeuvre.
Such self-funding or privately paying residents have received scant research attention compared with those who are publicly funded.
We also present the scant empirical evidence on cross-linguistic syntactic priming and underline the need for further research.
Evidence from excavation is scant in this wide-ranging work, which might more accurately be described as grounded in materiality rather than archaeology.
There is little mention of the significance of charcoal, and fire receives scant attention.
Evidence to support such an inference is still scant.
While these questions are beginning to be addressed, research is quite scant.
Local knowledge and local action are stressed and yet the significance of local language receives, by comparison, scant attention.
Admittedly, the evidence is scant and insufficient for any firm conclusions.
The land in the region was concentrated in a few hands and there was scant industrialization.
Carers and those with a tenuous relationship to paid work get scant attention.
He did not proceed because he came up against internal resistance and found scant support with public opinion.
With scant time for debating dissident opinions, subtleties, caveats and managerial guidelines are too readily eliminated or ignored during the reiterations of drafting or broadcasting.
Scant attention is paid to other economic concerns people may have.
The rapidity of change has left scant opportunity for investigation of the consequences of adoption of transgenic crops on long-term ecosystem or economic system functioning.
Surgeons are still reluctant to attempt conservative surgery due to the fact that the lesions seen bear scant resemblance too normal structures.
To have summarised this study so briefly is to do scant justice to the detailed and nuanced analysis the authors construct.
Further, there has been scant discussion as to why such a simple relationship should actually exist.
However, the scientific evidence supporting the method is scant.
First, documents that are supposed to support the thesis are scant and vague.
What is surprising is the scant attention paid to the philosophical foundations that justify and motivate this argument.
The black-and-white maps are poor and frequently very badly reproduced; without good maps, an atlas serves scant purpose.
Very little historical material on monastic women exists, and references to the lives of contemporary nuns is comparably scant.
Nevertheless, we have scant descriptive information about bilingual acquisition and, thus, little theoretical understanding of how two languages are acquired simultaneously.
Ethnographers have long emphasized the exotic and paid scant attention to similarities across cultures.
The more utilitarian structures of this period have received scant attention.
Such arguments would now warrant scant attention if the same problem had not re-emerged in modern anthropological writing.
The scant surface evidence of such activities should not discourage the proposition of hypotheses.
Surprisingly, the students did not find the rules onerous and there have been a scant eight major violations since their implementation.
The scant referencing is only partly relieved by the bibliography provided at the back of the volume.
Most surveys, however, have collected scant information on social context in comparison to the rich detail provided by ethnographic studies.
The there-cleft has so far received only scant attention in mainstream grammars, barring a few notable exceptions.
Policy-makers and researchers have by and large paid scant attention to ombudsmen.
Throughout the region, the problems of older people have received scant attention.
There is scant literature, however, which addresses the approach of death in old age.
Indeed, morphology is another area that receives scant attention.
The evidence to date concerning whether children use nominal or verbal morphology in verb acquisition is both scant and mixed.
The lack of acute viral crowd infections stemmed from the scant number of domesticated animals.
There was also scant attention paid to examining the representativeness of sampled subjects [30].
A major purpose of this article is to investigate, as far as the scant evidence allows, the performances of these cross-dressed specialists in 'boy roles'.
Information provided on methodology is scant, making the verification of conclusions problematic.
Specifically, and in terms of this project, cost and cost-effectiveness information is scant.
Studies measuring the cost-effectiveness of educational/implementation methods are even more scant.
However, direct references to the feelings that either the activity itself or the decorative ambience of the buildings induced are scant.
Scant cytoplasm containing glycogen granules may be present surrounding the axoneme.
There are scant empirical data about whether parents and children support waiving the requirement for parental permission.
Concerns about ill health and money were particularly acute for those with scant savings or assets.
The details of such anecdotes are so vague and scant that they illuminate little.
In the maelstrom of war, evacuees feared - with some justification - that they would be treated with scant respect and left to languish far from 'home'.
How much of this obviously scant exposure can be devoted to issues relating to medical experimentation?
Particularly scant attention has been paid to the social organisation of the lifecourse and the transitions into and through adulthood.
Nonetheless, life history research that considers established teachers, their life trajectories and career phases, is far more scant.
The basal 2 m of core 80-1 with scant pollen is not included in the figure.
The sculpture is paid dutiful but scant attention in the many encomiums dedicated to the building.
Functional equations of the form (2.9) have received scant attention in the literature.
By contrast, the problem of the interaction of a shock wave with a mixing region has received scant attention.
Similarly, state-owned enterprises make up much of the region's scant industrial capacity.
Literature on the nature of tick toxicoses has been particularly scant over the last five years.
A collection of research methods is proposed that, taken together, can answer these questions, which have hitherto received scant attention.
Scant attention is paid to succession in both the small business literature and in mainstream sociology.
On the other hand, the development of cooperative credits and the cooperative commercialisation of crops was scant.
However, the empirical evidence on this issue is still scant (5).
We convened the panel1 because scant data are available on the health effects of light to moderate alcohol consumption among the elderly (15).
Epizoochory is an important dispersal syndrome among invasive species but ecological studies are scant.
Her detailed examination of the scant surviving private sources indicates regular use, roughly once a fortnight.
Perhaps because the delay was merely 20 min, preliminary analyses revealed scant difference between shortand long-delay tasks.
Scant evidence exists to demonstrate the effectiveness of any one recruitment strategy over another.
One topic that receives scant attention in this chapter is the extent and importance of intraspecific variation in seed size.
The reasons for these differences are unclear and may simply represent natural variability and scant data from which to draw comparisons.
In comparison to humid forest and savanna, detailed information on the structure, diversity and function of dry forest ecosystems is relatively scant.
Empirical evidence for or against these hypotheses is scant.
Rather, issues surrounding copyright have to be addressed to the publishing houses, many of which have scant regard for academic texts.
Keeping these reservations in mind, the low pre-revolutionary cane yields mainly reflect scant use of artificial fertilisers and irrigation, and lack of new highyield cane varieties, in that era.
Despite their far-reaching implications to both the quality of the environment and the allocation of resources, these questions have received scant attention in either polar region.
What he did was to push through the 4 return to their former owners of many companies and the privatisation of others, with little attention to detail and scant transparency.
Paying scant attention to reality, the bureaucrats wrongly held litigation masters and their activities of inciting and proxy responsible in large part for generating this litigious tendency.
If the book has a fault, it may lie in her scanting the problem of intellectual authority.
He also scants much of the larger cultural context.
Until recently, however, this controversy had received scant attention from historians.
Despite the apparent normative increase in behavior associated with reward during adolescence, knowledge of the mechanisms of this developmental change is scant.
The sources are uneven: correspondence for the early decades is scant.
The empirical evidence for this model, however, is still scant as well as equivocal.
The majority of histopathological studies have therefore been directed to the cardiac lesions, with scant attention being given to arterial alterations in other organs.
In terms of the music case studies presented above, student evaluation data is scant.
The challenge is to attribute a plausible function despite the scant evidence.
The above remarks, amounting to no more than a sketch, do scant justice to the many works that have suggested new fields of contemporary historywriting.
Living in such a neighbourhood may contribute to problematic relationships, and receiving scant support from children reduces an older person's opportunities to live elsewhere.
To this end it is disappointing that the book has paid only scant attention to the psychological processes in the disorder.
Undoubtedly, other ethnographies with scant mention of sharing-related information are not included in this article.
He seems instead to have established a quasi-factual claim arrived at by an analysis of many assumptions and scant evidence.
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