For example, the author finds that a state that saw its broadband lines increase from none in 1990 to 45 per hundred households in 2006 experienced a 10 - 12 % increase in marriage rates of women in this age group as a result (controlling for other measurable influences on marriage rates). (bigthink.com)
In this application, the model is assumed to be valid for slope and basin environments at water depths of several meters to several hundred meters that are near or just below storm - wave base, where storms, tides, bioturbation, and unsteady depositional rate are expected to exert measurable influence (noise) in sedimentary records. (nature.com)
According to their multi-scale analyses, a single ion has a small but measurable influence on millions of water molecules, that is 10,000 times more than previously thought. (actu.epfl.ch)