Sentences with phrase «find small effects»

The post is filled with technical details for those looking for a deeper dive into the science, but for the layperson this is probably the most interesting bit: Using a cool gadget that floods a room with a specific color of light, Westland's research group «found a small effect of colored light on heart rate and blood pressure: Red light does seem to raise heart rate, while blue light lowers it.»

For the record, Vul and Walker found a small effect — «enough to bump someone from the 49th to the 51st percentile of attractiveness,» they explain in an October 2013 UC San Diego press release announcing publication of the results in the Association for Psychological Science's online journal.

Soe et al. (2000) found a small effect size of.132 for reading achievement and the use of computer technologies.

8 - 58): either (i) the IPCC calculation doesn't include the indirect effects of methane on the oxidation of SO2 to sulfur aerosols or (ii) the effects are included, but subsequent research found a smaller effect.

In specific, Geeraerts et al. (2004) found a small effect (d =.29) of early prevention interventions for families with young children at risk for physical child abuse and neglect.

Filene et al. (2013) found a small effect (d =.20) of home visitation interventions, and Pinquart and Teubert (2010) found a very small but significant effect (d =.13) of parent education interventions for expectant and new parents.

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Analogous effects in small to large animals, including humans, «are likely to be found,» the authors conclude.

Find out about Internal Revenue Code updates affecting small businesses that take effect this year and the next.

The first - ever CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey in June found that 21 percent of small - business owners expect changes in immigration policy to have a negative effect on their busineSmall Business Survey in June found that 21 percent of small - business owners expect changes in immigration policy to have a negative effect on their businesmall - business owners expect changes in immigration policy to have a negative effect on their businesses.

These levels of participation had no small effect on the findings, says Kensing.

When trying to lose 30 pounds in 2011, I found myself thinking at length about the cookies, cake, and ice cream I was passing up, trying to rationalize whether I could have a small piece, what the effect might be, and whether I even wanted to lose weight.

A second paper in 2010 found a slightly smaller effect (a 0.5 to 0.6 percent decrease in wage rates per 1 percent increase in corporate tax rates) but still concluded that labor was ultimately paying the tax.

It found that the program reduced under - five mortality by 27 %.79 The under - five mortality effect was smaller (though still statistically significant) in BRAC branches than in Living Goods branches, but the cost per CHP was lower in BRAC branches as well.80 The authors note: 81

Third, even assuming their logic and methodology are correct, the effects they find is small: they calculate that borrowers affected by enforced covenant breaches are only 2.4 % more likely to cut R&D spending and 4.9 % more likely to cut capital expenditure.

Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the cell membranes that can amplify small changes in the field to produce large changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).

If you want the effect I show here, buy one small heirloom tomato in as many colors as you can find — ideally green zebra, yellow, orange, red, and dark purple - red, then thinly slice and arrange on top of the leek filling, pressing in.

Another study looked specifically at small yellow onions, finding that their anti-inflammatory effects selectively inhibited cell growth.

The only good thing that came from that trip was that a) we didn't die and b) a small bag of incredible, dairy - free chocolate peanut butter cups we found in Detroit, which we hid from the children and stress - ate as we made our way through the lake effect.

Studies have shown that chlorophyll found in food or small purified amounts of chlorophyll have a favorable effect on red blood cell formation in the bone marrow.

Founders effect is when the establishment of a new population is founded by a few original individuals that carry only a small fraction of the total genetic variation of the parental population.

One report examined effect sizes and found that studies sponsored by the food industry reported significantly smaller harmful effects for the association of soft drink consumption with energy intake and body weight than those not sponsored by the food industry.

Hi, my (now 14 mo) son also had a period when he was much smaller when would only sleep for 45 mins in the daytime when previously he'd napped well... It obviously may not work, but what I did and it might be worth a try was that because he always managed to pass this 45 minute mark if we were walking, I took him for an hour long walk about 3 days in a row was all it took, and then he seemed to learn to get past that 45 minutes and could then do it in his cot... Maybe if that helps during the day it might have a knock on effect at nightime too... Obviously you don't want to get to a stage where he'll only fall asleep in the pushchair but maybe one nap a day try it and another nap let him go in his cot... Or whatever fits with you, but this was something I found to work for us

Studies of the Nurse Family Partnership model followed children to 6 years and found significant program effects on language and cognitive functioning as well as fewer behaviour problems in a randomized controlled trial study.24 In addition, more recent evaluations of Healthy Families America have shown small, but favourable effects on young children's development.25, 26

Although some SIDS experts and policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those of the AAP, 272,273 concerns about possible deleterious effects of pacifier use have prevented others from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have found a correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results of well - designed randomized clinical trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for term and preterm infants.278, 279 The authors of 1 study reported a small deleterious effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after birth) on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month of age and on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.

A study by a reform group finds that if New York were to ban outside income for lawmakers, it would actually effect only a small number of legislators.

Kevin Larkin has analysed the effect of holding these types of election on the same day, and finds that it leads to a small but significant increase in voter turnout.

«When scientists set out to look for the causes of the Allee effect in the past, they have tended to focus on intrinsic parameters, such as the difficulty finding a mate, inbreeding or social dysfunction in small populations,» explains Elliott.

Prenatal brain development is a crucial period, and as new research has found, even small alterations to the way brain cells develop can have significant effects later in life.

They found that although there was small leakage into the water, it was confined to a minority of the injected CO2, and the effects on the surrounding ecosystem were negligible.

Face shape, which would be the holy grail, is in the distant future — we've only found the first five genes, and the effects of those genes are very small.

She and her colleagues found themselves surprised how small an effect the norms had on a person's BMI.

His team found that the combined effect of thousands of almost simultaneous ejections creates a small air jet.

And even then, the effect size (a measurement of how strong a finding is) was smaller — on average, less than half the original size.

Now, a study by Facebook's in - house social scientists finds that this does indeed happen, though the effect is very small.

The small increase in the high - dose group did not translate into beneficial effects because authors found no difference between the three study groups for changes in spine, average total - hip, average femoral neck or total - body bone mineral density, trabecular bone score, muscle mass or sit - to - stand tests.

As you said it is an extremely small number of differences that you find genetically between humans and chimps, but it is an extremely important one, and what seems to make it so important is that a lot o these differences seem to affect what are in effect regulatory sequences.

«However, our findings suggest that small molecules aimed at modulating, but not blocking, the Wnt pathway might achieve similar effects to Apc reactivation.

«It's important they've found this gene, but it took a sample of 20,000 people to find it, precisely because the effect is so small,» says Robert Plomin at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and lead author of a groundbreaking study in 2007 which failed to find any single genes of disproportionate importance in intelligence.

The researchers also administered a compound to normal mice that blocked TRPV4, and found that inhibiting TRPV4 also led to smaller reductions in bite force, similar to the effects of the mice engineered without the Trpv4 gene.

When it came to pain reduction, the researchers found a large treatment benefit; for fatigue, a small - to - moderate treatment effect was found.

This phenomenon has been named the Central Park Effect because of the surprisingly large number of species found in New York's Central Park, a relatively small island of green within a metropolis.

The overwhelming medical evidence finds that most vaccine side effects among newborns and young children are mild — swelling, redness and a small, hard lump at the site of the injection — and typically pass within a couple of days.

The researchers found that the effects are largely determined by the presence or absence of different fauna, primarily small algae - eating crustaceans.

«But what's interesting is that we find that the substitutions that have small effects change over time.»

We found that the effects of past climate change are likely to be a very small component of the overall effect of air pollution,» continued West.

While the effect of moving from a lower - to a middle - tier school or from a middle - to an upper - tier school was found to be positive, it was so small as to be barely measurable.

When Cox and colleagues infused oxytocin specifically into the nucleus accumbens, a small brain region implicated in drug addiction, they found that it had the same effects as when they administered it systemically.

Finding genes with small effects requires that a lot of people be studied, Paternoster points out, and that could be hard to do because there aren't many studies where DNA was collected and MRIs were done.

They found ten other genes scattered throughout the genome with smaller effects on Septoria.

The findings suggested that biogenesis of small regulatory fragments from tRNA can have wide ranging effects on key aspects of Ae.