It is also supported by the scarcity of sixth-century Anglo-Saxon archaeological finds from further inland.

Madison's sybaritic, " American " lifestyle amid wartime scarcity both fascinates and disgusts Emily, but she does not want to lose another loved one to war and finds the " practicing coward " Madison irresistible.

Water law in the western United States generally follows the appropriation doctrine which developed due to the scarcity of water in that area.

The period is characterized by a relative scarcity of historical and other written records at least for some areas of Europe, rendering it obscure to historians.

He particularly pointed to the absence of Drosera species from almost all arid climate zones, countless rainforests, the American Pacific Coast, Polynesia, the Mediterranean region, and North Africa, as well as the scarcity of species diversity in temperate zones, such as Europe and North America.

This was as a result of his inherited money, his focus on experiment in chemistry and physics, his knowledge of the state-of-the-art methods, the scarcity of other laboratories in Europe at the time, and finally the high value he placed on facilitating the researches of up-and-coming young scientists.

Zollicoffer decided it was impossible to obey orders to return to the other side of the river because of scarcity of transport and proximity of Union troops.

As Wozniak was the only person who could answer most customer support questions about the computer, the company offered Apple I owners discounts and trade-ins for Apple IIs to persuade them to return their computers, contributing to their scarcity.

A study from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, however, found there was no indication of population decline, and suggested, as pelt prices were not increasing, the decrease in harvest was likely due to decreasing demand, and not increasing scarcity ( where pelt prices would go up.

In August 1776, Allen and other prisoners were temporarily put ashore in Halifax, owing to extremely poor conditions aboard ship ; due to food scarcity, both crew and prisoners were on short rations, and scurvy was rampant.

The cost of grain doubled because of scarcity ; suffering was worst in the north and least in the eastern lowlands.

Ehrlich was wrong about higher natural resource prices, about " famines of unbelievable proportions " occurring by 1975, about " hundreds of millions of people starving to death " in the 1970s and ' 80s, about the world " entering a genuine age of scarcity.

Regarding the arguments from silence about the scarcity of references to Josephus prior to Origen and Eusebius, Louis Feldman states that Josephus was ignored by early Christian writers before Origen because they were not sufficiently learned, and not sophisticated enough in historical matters.

The first one was the plague, which lasted from 541 to 543 and, by decimating the Empire's population, probably created a scarcity of labor and a rising of wages.

The labor theory as an explanation for value contrasts with the subjective theory of value, which says that value of a good is not determined by how much labor was put into it but by its usefulness in satisfying a want and its scarcity.

The Big U went out of print until 2001, when Stephenson allowed it to be republished after realizing that this book that he considered inferior to his others was being sold at inflated prices for used copies because of its scarcity and collectors ' value.

because of a scarcity of fish and other traditional kimbap products such as kimchi or fermented cabbage, Spam was added to a rice roll with kimchi and cucumber and wrapped in seaweed.

In The Wealth of Nations, Smith generally assumed that the supply price was fixed but that its " merit " ( value ) would decrease as its " scarcity " increased, in effect what was later called the law of demand also.

Iuppiter was associated with Liber through his epithet of Liber ( association not yet been fully explained by scholars, due to the scarcity of early documentation ).

It is also important to state how Harvey had theorized the existence of capillaries: however, unable to discern them due to the aforementioned scarcity of instruments at this disposal, he was never truly capable of understanding how blood passed from the arterioles into the venules.

For New England, and especially for the Middle Atlantic states, there was some consolation, for the scarcity of European goods meant that a definite stimulus was given to the development of American industry.

Norwegians typically lived under conditions of considerable scarcity, though famine was rare.

Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga approved the plan the following year, however an outbreak of sarampion ( measles ) killing some 200 Tongva people coupled with a scarcity of land for agriculture and potable water left the success of such a venture in doubt, so no effort to found an island mission was ever made.

During the 19th century, there was a “ scarcity of models for nontraditional womanhood ” which led more women to look toward “ literature for self-authorization.

The post-war recovery was short-lived and marked by scarcity of foreign investment.

It is considered that one of the most significant events in the history of broadcast television regulation was the creation of an artificial scarcity of VHF licenses.

( The designation banger was in use at least as far back as 1919 and is often said to have been popularized in World War II, when scarcity of meat led many sausage makers to add water to the mixture, making it more likely to explode on heating.

The idea was that the government and the central bank would maintain rough full employment, so that neoclassical notions — centered on the axiom of the universality of scarcity — would apply.

However, it is to be noted that there is no concrete explanation on how individuals pick partners because of the scarcity of theoretical and experimental researches that assess the importance of choice ; theoretically, models indicate that evolution of behaviors associated with altruism involving partner choices rarely occur due to variability of costs and benefits between multiple individuals.

Researchers have noted that a variety of factors, including energy price caps set well below the putative scarcity value of energy, the impact of " out-of-merit " dispatch, the use of techniques such as voltage reductions during scarcity periods with no corresponding scarcity price signal, etc., results in a " missing money " problem.

( 1994 ) noted that the experimental technique used by Kahneman and Thaler ( 1990 ) to demonstrate the endowment effect created a situation of artificial scarcity.

Wells noted that many of the government inquires on the “ depression of prices ” ( deflation ) found various reasons such as the scarcity of gold and silver.

He noted that land in the Salt Lake valley would be easy to clear as it had limited timber, and expressed concern over the apparent scarcity of rainfall.

Several unusual applications, such as a nuclear battery or fuel for space ships with nuclear propulsion, have been proposed for the isotope < sup > 242m </ sup > Am, but they are as yet hindered by the scarcity and high price of this nuclear isomer.

However, the scarcity and poor quality of road infrastructure limits land transportation by conventional vehicles.

Agriculture, while sufficient to support the small early settler population, has always been limited by the scarcity of arable land.

This application is hindered by the scarcity, high cost and radioactivity of curium isotopes.

Robbins describes the definition as not classificatory in " pick out certain kinds of behaviour " but rather analytical in " focus attention on a particular aspect of behaviour, the form imposed by the influence of scarcity.

The second cornerstone of the Fermi paradox is a rejoinder to the argument by scale: given intelligent life's ability to overcome scarcity, and its tendency to colonize new habitats, it seems likely that at least some civilizations would be technologically advanced, seek out new resources in space and then colonize first their own star system and subsequently the surrounding star systems.

While their old lands were being worked by slaves, the peasants were often forced into idleness in Rome where they had to subsist on hand outs due to a scarcity of paid work.

Food scarcity became a serious problem by 1917.

Generally the left wing is favored by the right-handed majority of writers because the feather curves away from the sight line, over the back of the hand, although because of the modern scarcity of substantial quills this is rarely a consideration as the curvature is not actually so pronounced as to cause any difficulty in the writing process.

Economic scarcity, meanwhile, is caused by a lack of investment in water or insufficient human capacity to satisfy the demand for water.

Architectural historian Robert L. Thorp points out the scarcity of Han-era archaeological remains, and claims that often unreliable Han-era literary and artistic sources are used by historians for clues about lost Han architecture.

The Depression is also inhabited by the nomadic Bedouin people and their flocks, with the uninhabited Moghra oasis being important in times of water scarcity during the dry seasons.

The economics of scarcity is replaced by the economics of self-generation.

The problem of scarcity of tangible capital in the labour surplus countries can be resolved by accelerating the rate of human capital formation with both private and public investment in education and health sectors of their National economies.

A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including crop failure, population unbalance, or government policies.

At the end of the Cold War, academics including Samuel P. Huntington and Robert D. Kaplan predicted a proliferation of conflicts fuelled by civilisational clashes, tribalism, resource scarcity and overpopulation.

Several factors provide major obstacles to the growth of industry: the islands ' geographically isolated position, their distance from each other, a scarcity of raw materials and skilled labor, and the high cost of electricity ( energy is produced by hydropower, imported petroleum, and wood products ) and transportation.

Faced with continuing military operations against them by the government and a scarcity of food, some groups have begun coming out of hiding, while others have sought asylum in Thailand and other countries .< ref >

When a harvest is too small to satisfy consumption at its normal rate, speculators come in, hoping to profit from the scarcity by buying.