Sentences with phrase «best a modest effect»

For example, in describing the results of Title I, Jennings concludes, «In a nutshell, the billions of dollars spent on Title I had at best a modest effect on the academic achievement of the disadvantaged students who participated in the program...» On No Child Left Behind (NCLB), he writes, «So it truly was a mixed bag.

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The changes to the forecasts for inflation over the years to June 2000 and June 2001 (excluding the effect of the GST) appear to reflect current and prospective developments in oil and tobacco prices as well as a modest increase in the assessment of underlying inflationary pressures.

Coming from Australia, a place where a big wedge of our footballing culture is comes from England (as well as other places) I see the trickle down effect in our own modest league.

In the absence of broader structural measures, the authors conclude that «targeted technology initiatives, strategic industry policies, and the like will have modest positive effects at best, and may instead prove harmful to overall economic performance».

«Although electronic alcohol screening and brief counseling interventions may have effects on participants among subgroups of university students or among other groups, the results of this study and others suggest that the effect of this type of intervention among university students is modest at best,» write Timothy S. Naimi, M.D., M.P.H., of Boston Medical Center, Boston, and Thomas B. Cole, M.D., M.P.H., of JAMA, Chicago, in an accompanying editorial.

When salt intake is high, even a modest reduction for a duration of 4 or more weeks has a significant and important beneficial effect on blood pressure in individuals with normal as well as elevated blood pressure.

While you've likely come across plenty of reports purporting that green tea can raise your metabolism to torch fat, this effect is modest at best, reports a study published in the «Canadian Pharmacists Journal» in 2014.

This review done by the Creighton University Medical Center looked at over 20 studies done on the fat burning effects of Synephrine HCl and concluded that «Synephrine alone as well as in combination products were shown to increase resting metabolic rate and energy expenditure, and modest increases in weight loss were observed with bitter orange extract / p - synephrine - containing products when given for six to 12 weeks».

One may conclude from this evidence that the effect is very modest (compared to diet and other lifestyle factors) and hence consider multivitamins «a waste of money» (I don't think so — a nickel a day for ~ 10 % lower risk of cancer and macular degeneration seems like a very good deal to me) but certainly not that they pose any risk — at least not in the case of iron - free RDA - dose multivitamins similar to the Centrum used in PHSII.

This being said, the film's visual effects and style, along with a well executed soundtrack, deserve accolades (particularly with its modest 1.3 million budget) and, as a whole, it does inspire philosophical reflection.

The overly shiny CG work has never looked good in pin - point perfect HFR and most of this film has a jarring bloom effect that reminds me of an overbearing Skyrim graphics mod.

With its combination of startlingly effective visual effects, a trippy screenplay that served both as a enormously effective genre narrative a mind - bending meditation of what it means to be human and strong performances from the three leads, the film was celebrated as one of the best of the year and it even went on to become a modest commercial success as well.

Showcasing much more gore than the movies of old, and surprisingly good effects for such a modest budget (only $ 11 million), the look and feel of the film is appealing, while the comic overtones keep the proceedings appropriately entertaining.

These estimates are reasonably precise, with standard errors around 0.07, showing that our research design has the power to detect more modest effects as well.

These patterns suggest that increasing exposure to black teachers is beneficial at best and neutral at worst for all students in terms of discipline, and that increasing teacher diversity while keeping teacher quality constant would have a modest positive effect on the reading achievement of black students while having an opposite effect on the math achievement of white students.

As the modest - at - best results of programs like Teach for America suggest, simply unleashing young Ivy Leaguers on our school system is probably not going to have a dramatic effect on student achievement.

I was also curious to see what effect new Kindles and Nooks might have on the Giveaway, but I can't tell if the (modest) surge was from better exposure or new e-readers.

The effect of credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations on default in the short run is modest at best (even the article says CDOs lower borrowing costs by 3 - 5 basis points).

Skyrim VR leaves more of a «gap» for pure RPG» ers thanks to an immersive lore, is better optimized for lower - end systems, has a better overhead for all sorts of mods, a more natural skill leveling system, and a clear «wow» effect (at least for me).

Looking back, even though it clearly looks dated and basically like a Doom mod, it had the best sound effects and there was something about its pacing and structure that made it feel Star Wars - ey.

The new weather effects are superb, the online works brilliant and the career mode plus the showcases are well worth your time.Make sure you experiment with the mods in career too.

At a guess, and in anticipation of an image, I'd say that Wild Orchid is the better of the three, partly because of its more modest size (the Richter is 118 ″ x 118 ″, the Oliski is 102 ″ x 132 ″, mine is 80 x 66 ″), partly because the colour is better, without that tea - stained effect in the Olitski, but mostly because there is none of that seeing through veils effect which causes ambiguous cloudy, watery depth.

It is well known that there a modest fertilization effect.

Its effects were relatively modest: perhaps 1 Celsius degree of cooling (1.8 F), a fall in sea level of approximately 30 centimeters (1 foot), and marginal increases in sea ice and terrestrial glaciers as well as descents in European montane «snow lines» of perhaps 100 meters.

The problem for you, Sebastian, is that, even according to models, it is well established that CO2 only plays a very, very modest role within the «greenhouse effect» relative to, say, cloud radiative forcing.

The correlation is modest at best, but in his Figure 5, it does appear to be a real effect.

* The rising CO2 content of the atmosphere may induce very small changes in the well - buffered ocean chemistry (pH) that could slightly reduce coral calcification rates; but potential positive effects of hydrospheric CO2 enrichment may more than compensate for this modest negative phenomenon.

The best course, he says, would be to adopt a modest carbon tax — because there are certainly some ill effects of global warming — and adjust it as we learn more.

The basic physics of greenhouse gases are simply not one of those things that are not well - enough understood and if you don't understand how greenhouse gases work you can't possibly move on to any reasonable debate about other phenomena which can and do (IMO) largely negate the effects of increasing greenhouse gases and leave us in a situation where the modest increase in carbon dioxide has vast beneficial effect by warming the planet at high latitudes where warming is welcome, not warming it at low latitudes where it is already warm enough, increasing the growth rate of green plants, and decreasing the water needs of green plants at the same time.

The potential for stark change in American practice being pretty modest, discussion about the effects of various alternative versions of Loser Pays runs some risk of violating the maxim that the perfect is the enemy of the good.

And even for those fortunate couples - perhaps half of them - whose cases get resolved with only modest courtroom skirmishing, the legal structure for obtaining a divorce produces decidedly counter-therapeutic effects for both clients and, to an extent family lawyers have long known but seldom discussed, divorce attorneys as well.

Although treatment effects for several outcomes were small in magnitude, as reported previously, HS was modest in intensity and cost, relative to other early intervention efforts.5 For example, HS families made 11 well - child visits and received < 2 home visits within their child's first 2.5 years, at a cost of $ 402 to $ 933 / year.

This finding is consistent with the meta - analysis by Amato and Gilbreth (1999) showing that when it comes to nonresident father involvement, although feelings of closeness and indicators of authoritative parenting have the strongest influence on child well - being, the effects are generally modest... Our results also reveal that the quality of the mother - child relationship has stronger, more consistent effects on adolescent well - being than the nonresident father - child relationship.

All these studies, however, also report that the quality of the mother - child relationship has a stronger, more consistent effect on adolescent well - being than the father - child relationship... The effects of nonresident father involvement on adolescent well - being found in this study are clearly modest.