Sentences with phrase «greater effect on the result»

This is a good definition for reflecting performance, because early distributions have a greater effect on the result than late ones, which is a desired property since early gains can be used by the investor to obtain further profits.

Not exact matches

When applied to religious television, we might predict that religious television programs will have their greatest effect on a viewer when the viewer is aroused because of a particular need; when the recommended action on the religious program becomes salient to the person because of a lack of other options within their repertoire; when the action is perceived as being a realistic and rewarding solution to the need; when the viewer has experienced favorable consequences as a result of the action in the past; and when the program presents options for action that the viewer has opportunity to perform.

The use of herbicide resistant plants can result in greater use of herbicides, increasing the negative effects of intensive farming on natural biodiversity.

Thus the system does not have a great effect on the partisan composition of the Storting, but does result in more MPs coming from rural counties.

Regardless of the eventual outcome, the Ebola epidemic and its resulting effects on basic and translational research, whatever they may be, illustrate how difficult it is to predict the future of a research area and the great extent to which the unexpected influences careers.

The greatest effect in the latter group was most evidently seen in anovulatory women, a result explained by the beneficial effect of weight loss on the resumption of ovulation.

Burgstaller's results may have effects on the planned introduction of the so called «Three - Parent Baby» in Great Britain.

The research also suggests that greater access to higher and further education can produce different political outcomes — which has been demonstrated in the 2017 General Election, where it can be argued that voting populations with a higher education had a decisive effect on the result.

Ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) injuries in Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers are high - impact due to player time lost and the resulting effect on teams and an athlete's career, making treatment decisions an even greater challenge for physicians.

While the results revealed complex patterns of interaction between the measured regions, the areas that had the greatest effect on regions that identify speech sounds were regions involved in the representation of words, not those responsible for rules.

These results imply a greater potential than previously thought for fossil fuel industry efficiency improvements to mitigate the effects of human activity on the climate.

«As the seas warm because of our effect on the climate, bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef and other areas within the Coral Sea are likely to become more frequent and more devastating,» the team of Australian university scientists wrote Thursday in The Conversation, announcing the results of the analysis.

And since strongman training takes everything on a whole new level, it also has a great effect on the rate of fat burning, due to its ability to boost the metabolism and result in a large accumulation of lactate in the body.

Leucine, the king of muscle - building amino acids, has been repeatedly shown to have an extraordinary effect on muscle growth by promoting protein synthesis and inhibiting catabolism; isoleucine helps the metabolic function run smooth during exercise; valine acts to prevent tryptophan (compound that converts to serotonin in the brain) build up, which results in greater levels of available energy and improved endurance.

The result: much greater strength gains and MUCH greater effects on the connective tissue, helping pave the way for even better gains in the future (stronger connective tissue gives the muscles greater potential for strength gains).

While we did have to really do a lot of work to reverse the effects on her digestive system, (thank you LORD for the GAPS diet and Nutritional Balancing), after 5 years we are finally seeing some really great results and improvements.

Simple activities such as sitting at an office desk or standing up from prolonged periods can result in a great deal of compression on the spine, even sleeping in bed can have minor spinal compression effects.

Restricting carbohydrates to a greater degree leads to binging, food cravings on unhealthy choices and may result in weight gain and other poor health effects.

Studies have compared the effect of Front Squat and Back Squats on jump performance and sprint performance and the results showed, that Front Squat leads to greater improvement in jump performances and sprint performances.

«Looking at the results, hard rock music has a greater negative effect on mice,» Mr. Merrell said in a recent interview.

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In order to determine the effect of scholarship - induced private school competition on public school performance, we examine whether students in schools that face a greater threat of losing students to private schools as a result of the introduction of tax - credit funded scholarships improve their test scores more than do students in schools that face a less - pronounced threat.

The results are consistent with other studies that show a substantial return (up to 50 percent of a standard deviation on standardized achievement tests) to achievement from observed classroom quality, with greater effects often accruing to children with higher levels of risk and disadvantage.

Using information from Chetty et al's results and Gormley et al's results, I calculate that in Tulsa, the predicted effect of pre-k on adult earnings would be about one - fifth greater in dollars for reduced price lunch students than for free lunch students, and the predicted effect on adult earnings would be about one - fifth less in dollars for full price lunch students than for free lunch students.

The study looked at four autonomous schools in Australia and found the greater level of independence enjoyed by the school had a positive effect on students» results.

The result is less body roll, quicker steering response and greater high - speed stability than the already excellent E500, with no detrimental effect on ride quality.

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A recent slowdown in medical - price inflation, which historically outpaced the overall inflation, is likely a result of passing on more costs to consumers (as well as a temporary effect of the Great Recession).

No adverse effects whatsoever.The transformation is spectacular in the short time, 3.5 weeks, that he has been on the raw diet... although having seen the difference before, I was expecting great results.

So, I tend to believe the new results, they confirm what has been shown by several other studies — human - caused CO2 has a large enough effect lasting long enough that it will greatly affect the natural ice - age cycling — but I'll listen to Peter, Andre and the others with great interest, and I don't think this is the last word on exactly what CO2 level is needed for exactly what orbital configuration for ice - age initiation.

I encountered «great difficulties» from Jan of 2000 until July of 2005 as a result of my concerns with climate change effects on hydrologic modeling and flood prediction.

If it does so then the resistor will not have any greater heating effect on anything around it as a result of it's increased efficiency due to the fact that the increase in heat is being drawn away.

The results also showed other Western regions, such as the Northern Rockies and the Great Basin region, as having negative effects on plant growth in the eastern half of the country.

Longer ice - free periods on the Great Lakes can result in more lake - effect snowfalls.

As a result, a cap - and - trade system's effect on the cost of coal use would be significantly greater than its effect on the cost of gasoline or natural gas consumption.

«Our results show that increasing temperatures have a large effect on carbon release from permafrost, but that changes in soil moisture conditions have an even greater effect,» Dr Schädel says.

The brochure went on to warn that if this continued, the result «would have a marked warming effect on Earth's climate» that could «cause significant melting of the great ice caps and raise sea levels in time.»

But the results of recent studies suggest that two other side effects of CBT may actually have a greater impact that thought restructuring on client progress: Distancing and decentering work that helps clients stop identifying with depression and behavior activation, a technique that helps him or her to reengage with naturally pleasurable and rewarding activities.

Nevertheless, great caution is advised when interpreting the results and conducting clinical interventions based on this study because the observed effects were limited.

The concentration of beneficial effects among children born to unmarried women of low SES is consistent with the results of other preventive interventions that have shown greater effects for children of families at greater social risk.20 This suggests that these kinds of services ought to be focused on families in greater need by virtue of the mothers» being unmarried and poor.

The results of this study indicate peer victimization does not lead to aggression, but the interpretation of events such as hostility attribution and cognitive, psychologic variable such as their personal peer rejection sensitivity have greater effect on aggression.

Although this finding was not consistent with our predictions, it may suggest that at least during early childhood, the greater use of behavioral control may have a protective effect on health, resulting in lower rates of ambulatory care (i.e., nonemergency care and ER visits).

Our results showed that conduct problems had greater effect on deviant self - concept among girls compared with boys.

There is limited previous research on the differential effects of contact versus non-contact CSA (Landolt et al. 2016), but hypothetically contact abuse is a more invasive violation than non-contact abuse, resulting in greater negative sequelae.

The results for pubertal status and age are strikingly similar, indicating that after controlling for the effect of all the other variables in the regression model, the impact of life events on depression is significantly greater in the pubertal girls (sex × pubertal status [age] × life events interaction).

The results of this study appear to provide more evidence for the «distortion bias» hypothesis, suggesting that depressive cognitions and perspectives of the mother have a greater (negative) effect on their reports of their child's mental health compared to the child's experiences of their own mental well - being.

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