(a.) Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sequence data were used to infer phylogeny by using a maximum-parsimony method, an evolutionary-distance method, and the evolutionary-parsimony method.
(2) The efficient and reliable assessment of general community health requires the development of comprehensive and parsimonious measures of proven validity.
(3) The most parsimonious explanation of this result is that much genetic drift accompanied the establishment of local populations in cities and that there has been little subsequent gene flow.
(4) With benzodiazepines, StD of memory retrieval conceivably constitutes a parsimonious explanation of the anxiolytic and untoward (amnesic, drug dependence) actions of these drugs.
(5) The affiliations of the oligohymenophoreans were assessed using both distance matrix (DM) and maximum parsimony (MP) analyses.
(6) Maximum-parsimony analyses of the total data set of 67 vertebrate alpha A sequences support the monophyletic origin of alligator, tegu, and birds and favor the grouping of crocodilians and birds as surviving sister groups in the subclass Archosauria.
(7) Faced with the realities of Britain's rickety finances, chancellors and shadow chancellors of all parties have frequently turned parsimonious.
(8) The site-by-site parsimony analysis was also used to determine the 3' boundary of each catarrhine species-specific conversion.
(9) The patterns of continuity and change in planning status from pregnancy to pregnancy provide a parsimonious description of reproductive behavior over the course of the life cycle and of the major trends in planning in the recent past.
(10) Phylogenetic trees constructed by both the maximum parsimony method and the neighbor-joining method were highly congruent.
(11) A parsimonious phylogenetic tree suggests that aphA1-IAB evolved from an ancestral form that is closely related or identical to the aphA1 found in Tn903.
(12) The most parsimonious and maximum-likelihood trees both separated the Coleoptera and Neuroptera, but this separation was not statistically significant.
(13) Furthermore, because he fails to take a full count of the number of parameters used in his autoregressive model his argument from parsimony is flawed.
(14) Using regressive logistic models, we analyzed familial aggregation of birth defects among relatives of infants with OM and GA. An autosomal recessive model of inheritance was found to be the most parsimonious explanation for the families of infants with isolated OM or GA.
(15) It was concluded that ARIMA models may, in some cases, produce the most parsimonious model, but in other cases they may miss important process behaviors.
(16) Data from a 52-item self-administered Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Self-Care Scale designed for persons diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) were refactored for the purpose of achieving scale parsimony and clarifying interrelationships among ADL self-care behaviors.
(17) Overall, there is structural and computational economy, or even parsimony.
(18) Thus, whereas a change in central MSH sensitivity may contribute to reduced fever in aged homeotherms, a reduction in central pyrogen receptors appears to be the most parsimonious explanation.
(19) Fourteen thioredoxin sequences were used to construct a minimal phylogenetic tree by using parsimony.
(20) For simplicity the emphasis is placed more on parsimony than on sequence homology in the present study, though both are certainly important.
Scanty
Definition:
(a.) Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.
(a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
(a.) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) Treatment was monitored by simple measurements, and it's toxicity proved to be scanty.
(3) The blood lymphocytes were small with scanty cytoplasm, densely condensed nuclear chromatin, and deep clefts originating in sharp angles from the nuclear surface.
(4) At necropsy, a heart with normal dimensions was found with scanty small cicatrices in the myocardium, probably resulting of past myocarditis.
(5) The biopsy findings consisted of eosinophilic individual necrosis of epidermal cells, satellite cell necrosis, basal liquefaction degeneration, and scanty cell infiltration into the dermis.
(6) Tumours harvested after 3 weeks growth in donors, became cystic and had a scanty arterial supply.In both groups there was no portal circulation to the tumours' deposits.It is suggested that prior to intra-arterial treatment of cancer in the liver, the morphology of the tumour should be assessed.
(7) Unfortunately, owing to the scanty description of the work task, the exposure could be analysed only by job title.
(8) The three workers had scanty clinical symptoms; however, their chest x-ray films revealed disseminated nodulations throughout both pulmonary fields.
(9) Control kidneys harboured scanty interstitial T lymphocytes.
(10) However, B cells (B-1), NK cells (Leu-7 and Leu-11), complement proteins and receptor (C4 and C3d receptor), and neutrophils (chloroacetate esterase) were scanty or absent in these foci.
(11) They possess numerous mitochondria with lamellar and tubular cristae, abundant smooth endoplasmic reticulum, lipofuscin bodies and scanty lipid.
(12) The results support the hypotheses implicit in the scanty literature available that the frequency and effects of torture in women differ from those found in men.
(13) Although articles on studies of organized home care programs are numerous, reports of long-term effectiveness of these programs are scanty.
(14) The biopsy specimens in the remaining 254 cases continued scanty detectable IgA (discontinuous pattern) or none.
(15) Data on colonic intraluminal pressures are scanty, but those that exist seem to indicate that the addition of bran to the diet results in a decrease in overall colonic pressures.
(16) A syndrome of scanty, fine, curled hair, thin dysplastic nails, taurodontic molars, hypoplastic-hypomature enamel, dysplasia of dentin, and hypohidrosis segregating as an autosomal dominant trait is described in a Japanese family.
(17) These were supplemented by interactions with medical personnel, as well as a review of the scanty literature (geriatrics is not a recognized medical specialty in the Soviet Union).
(18) The discrepancy between the relatively scanty amount of statistically reliable data on the one hand and the complexity of the manifestation of death by hanging on the other hand proved to be the main problem.
(19) The white pulp was scanty of lymphocytes and decreased in a unit area but it was increased in the whole spleen.
(20) Fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies of a thyroid nodule in a patient with longstanding histiocytosis X produced a scanty amount of colloid, a moderately dense mixed inflammatory infiltrate and numerous small papillary fragments lined by cuboidal-to-columnar cells.