North of Dál Riata, the Inner and Outer Hebrides were nominally under Pictish control although the historical record is sparse.

This together with a cultural climate that places more interest in historical and fantastic speculative fiction then the futuristic made the mostly German and French science-fiction sparse and mostly aimed at children.

The later Iron Age inhabitants of the Northern Isles were probably Pictish, although the historical record is sparse.

Although historical records of sea otter in the San Juan Islands are sparse, there is a sea otter specimen collected in 1897 in the " Strait of Fuca " in the National Museum of Natural History.

No trace remains of it, and the historical and epigraphical record offers only sparse details to suggest its exact location.

Auerbach contrasts Homer's attention to detail and foregrounding of the spatial, historical, as well as personal contexts for events to the Bible's sparse account, in which virtually all context is kept in the background or left outside of the narrative.

North of Dál Riata the Inner and Outer Hebrides were nominally under Pictish control although the historical record is sparse.

No valid scientific methodology by which folklore accounts could be interpreted was known before the mid-20th century, and with sparse historical and archeological sources, the doors were thus opened to wild and unwarranted speculation.

During his tenure, Mahler cultivated a new generation of singers, such as Anna Bahr-Mildenburg and Selma Kurz, and recruited a stage designer who replaced the lavish historical stage decors with sparse stage scenery corresponding to modernistic, Jugendstil tastes.

The historical record is sparse, but a Chinese Liang Dynasty record ( c. 500 AD ) refers to the kingdom of " Lang-ya-xiu " () as being founded in the 1st century AD.

Well documented reports of historical Amukta volcanism are sparse ; activity was noted from 1786 to 1791, and again in 1876 ( Coats, 1950 ).

" In general, however, the historical record of love and sexual relations between women is sparse.

However, throughout most of the historical time the local population was sparse while the land provided mainly for pastoralism and firewood for the local needs.

Whilst the historical record for Dinas Brân is sparse, there are many myths and legends associated with the ancient site.

The historical record is more sparse than that for the Aztecs ( p. 687 ) and can only be reliable in regards to the Post-Classical period, long after the Classic Maya collapse.

alt = A sharp blue river divides the cityscape, which is primarily greenery and sparse low-rise buildings in the foreground, and dense with several modern high-rises in the background

Hägar the Horrible uses a clear, sparse editorial-style line drawing, with minimal foreground or background detail, shading or embellishment.

The early Knots Landing background music cues heavily emphasized the brass section, and were often played with a very sparse bass line accompaniment.

Overlaid on a sparse background of two alternating chords formed by the repeated spoken syllable " Ha " created by looping with an Eventide Harmonizer, the text of " O Superman " is spoken through a vocoder.

Of course the " trick " here is that the asteroid is presented amongst a very sparse background, allowing for substantial disambiguation.

After a few spins you realise that even the sounds mixed into the background and he vocal interventions from old " drug " records all play a part in this warm, soothing lysergic tapestry that contains sparse, but matching lyrics.

The best chance, of course, is offered by gently sloping terrain where the water remains close to the surface and where the air is dry, so that a high evaporation leaves salty deposits which permit only sparse plant growth.

Evidence for ( or against ) the existence of diatomic astatine ( At < sub > 2 </ sub >) is sparse and inconclusive.

Offshore anchorage is sparse and intermittent, but poses no problem to sailboats designed for the ice, typically with lifting keels and long shorelines.

While ecologically sparse, the habitat's climate is controlled by complex machinery in the lower levels.

The well-watered north of the continent is often called the " Top End " and the arid interior " The Red Centre ", owing to its vast amounts of red soil and sparse greenery amongst its landscape.

Air transport is relied on for mail delivery in some areas, owing to sparse settlement and wet-season road closures.

( The pre-Cambrian fossil record of animals is sparse and ambiguous.

It is treeless, with sparse vegetation consisting of four kinds of grass, prostrate vines and low-growing shrubs.

The sparse human population is largely nomadic, with some livestock, mostly small ruminants and camels.

This is region of sparse rainfall and high median temperatures has been included as part of the East Sudanian savanna ecoregion.

Although some rain comes during the latter season, rainfall is sparse overall and very erratic.

Rainfall is sparse, but sudden showers do cause harsh flooding.

In a harsh and barren land where rainfall is very sparse and unreliable, Cholistanis rely mainly on their livestock of sheep, goats, and camel.

The total amount of scattering in a sparse medium is determined by the product of the scattering cross-section and the number of particles present.

He was born in Rome — in either 1475 or 1476 — the son of Cardinal Rodrigo de Lanzol y Borgia, soon to become Pope Alexander VI, and his mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei, about whom information is sparse.

The animal fossil record from this period is sparse, possibly because animals had yet to evolve hard shells, which make for easier fossilization.

In combinatorics, an expander graph is a sparse graph that has strong connectivity properties, quantified using vertex, edge or spectral expansion as described below.

On very poor soils, and especially where fire is a recurrent phenomenon, woody savannas develop ( see ' sparse trees and parkland ').

At high latitudes, north of the main zone of boreal forest or taiga, growing conditions are not adequate to maintain a continuous closed forest cover, so tree cover is both sparse and discontinuous.

A wavelet-based approximate FFT by Guo and Burrus ( 1996 ) takes sparse inputs / outputs ( time / frequency localization ) into account more efficiently than is possible with an exact FFT.

The Edelman algorithm works equally well for sparse and non-sparse data, since it is based on the compressibility ( rank deficiency ) of the Fourier matrix itself rather than the compressibility ( sparsity ) of the data.

Conversely, if the data are sparse — that is, if only K out of N Fourier coefficients are nonzero — then the complexity can be reduced to O ( K log N log ( N / K )), and this has been demonstrated to lead to practical speedups compared to an ordinary FFT for N / K > 32 in a large-N example ( N = 2 < sup > 22 </ sup >) using a probabilistic approximate algorithm ( which estimates the largest K coefficients to several decimal places ).

A sparse population is confined to small settlements along the coast.