Sentences with phrase «effect at less cost»

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It found while standard ECT was slightly more effective for treating depression and required one less treatment, this came at a cost with significantly more cognitive side effects.

Dr. Hamdy said the study proves that intensive lifestyle intervention is at least as effective as some common bariatric surgeries in helping people lose weight and deal with their diabetes issues, with less cost and fewer short and long - term side effects.

Drugs such as metformin and troglitazone, which are expensive and require regular physician monitoring to avoid potentially dangerous side - effects, would appear to be less practical options from cost - effectiveness, convenience and safety standpoints, given the fact that the population at - risk for diabetes is huge.

It seems to me that consistently front - loading a charter school's enrollment only to see it shrink over the course of the year, thereby back - loading enrollment at public schools, could also allow fiscal shenanigans wherein, if less money is spent on students on average at the beginning of the year (say, no building heating costs or payments for school trips or assessments that occur later on in the year), then the charter school can effect a profit on students who later in the year transfer out of the school.

This surgical procedure can be done at any age and can provide enough comfort in a dog weighing less than 60 — 70 lbs to avoid the daily use of anti-inflammatory pain medication, thus avoiding costs and side effects that limit or negate its use.

If you have a Citi Premier or Citi Prestige card and a few ThankYou points in your account, you can buy miles indirectly through the ThankYou Rewards program at a cost of only 2.5 cents per mile (or less when transfer bonuses are in effect).

«New and more effective ways have been developed to test the effects of chemicals on humans, eliminating the need for animal testing... [These] are generally less expensive and less time - consuming than their animal - based counterparts, which sometimes take months or years to conduct, at costs of tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

For instance, what is the usual response of a CAGW movement supporter to learning that, under their own climate sensitivity assumptions, other forms of geoengineering than CO2 cutbacks could neutralize the predicted warming for < = ~ 1 % the cost and with lesser biological side - effects (such as stratospheric dispersion of micron - scale reflective dust staying suspended for months at appropriate altitude, in radiative forcing neutralizing orders of magnitude more than its own mass in CO2)?

Once the radiation limits begin to be increased this should have a catalytic effect on reducing emissions: 1) it will mean radiation leaks are understood to be less dangerous that currently thought > less people evacuated from effected zones > reduced cost accident of accidents — reduced accident insurance cost; 2) population takes another look at the effects of radiation > gains an understanding it is much less harmful than they thought > fear subsides > less opposition > easier and less expensive to find sites supported by the people nearby > planning and sight approval costs come down over time

After the easy efficiencies are found, further efficiency measures often require greater cost for less benefit; and while greater efficiency may reduce costs at first, it can have the effect of spurring yet more consumption.

Fifth, the governmental actions the CIC proposes would have no measurable effect on global warming, and probably none at all, at a very high cost to taxpayers and ratepayers, particularly less well - to - do ones.

A new study looks at the effects of eating less meat and finds, in a fascinating intersection of issues, that reducing meat consumption would improve human health, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and decrease healthcare costs significantly.

Insurance is hardly at the top of most people's lists when it comes to exciting things to think about, but Mesa's smaller population has an effect on many residents» insurance costs that is nothing less than stellar.