Creeping acquisitions are those acquisitions which in and of themselves do not lessen competition but, taken as a collective, may have
a greater effect over time.
Not exact matches
Intermittent fasting
over a certain period of
time is a feature of
great religions all
over the world and it is well known that nutritional habits, sleeping patterns and meal frequency have profound
effects on maintaining human health.
One of the most impressive
effects of the power of collective vision which is conferred upon us by the formation of a common brain is the perception of «
great slow movements», so vast and slow that they are only observable
over immense stretches of
time.
(2) The audio - visual
effects of the lights feature are
great, but seem to be overwhelming to the baby (and adults as well) with too many lights flickering on and off at the same
time and
over stimulating the baby.
Relationship / personal continuity
over time has been found to have a
greater effect on user experience and outcome (Saultz 2003; Saultz 2004; Saultz 2005).
Having created a company to offer these keepsake videos (at a cost of # 200 a
time), he was asked for his views: «A
great deal of research has been done
over the past 30 years to investigate if fetal ultrasound has any
effect on the baby and there is no evidence whatsoever of harm.»
The passing on of knowledge from generation to generation is metaphorically referred to as a cultural «ratchet
effect,» which creates
greater complexity of culture
over time.
Team
effects have increased
over time, but appear to be smaller on street circuits, where the driver's skill plays a
greater role.
Strong attractions or repulsions tend to diminish
over time; this lessens their
effect on particle flow and suggests that intermediate interactions have
greater effect.
Pound for pound, the
effect of methane on climate change is more than 20
times greater than carbon dioxide
over a 100 - year period, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
The more people know, the
greater the
effect we can all have to work together and make a larger impact
over time.
Intermittent fasting
over a certain period of
time is a feature of
great religions all
over the world and it is well known that nutritional habits, sleeping patterns and meal frequency have profound
effects on maintaining human health.
When I do cardio I want to get the
greatest fat - burning
effect in the shortest amount of
time possible and get it
over with fast.
While there are many benefits of using anabolic steroids during the bulking phase, as they can help you put plenty of muscle mass and provide
great energy boost in the shortest
time period, their harmful side
effects are also well documented and experienced by people world
over.
Dave Asprey: Generally, if it works forever, that's
great, but if the placebo
effect... They often drop off
over time.
The athletes using Synchro Gold also reported
greater improvements in their training metrics, suggesting the overall wellness - promoting
effect of Gold may improve athletic performance
over time.
To go even further, our fast twitch fibers can be classified as either Type IIX or Type IIB.11 Fast twitch fibers show a
greater capacity for hypertrophy than slow twitch fibers, therefore it may be wise to incorporate faster repetition training to maximize this capacity.4 Maximal speed is regarded as a short lasting adaptation, therefore if we wish to keep our bar speed up, we must train with fast bar speed frequently.8 This will have a nice carry
over effect to the amount of weight we are able to lift, the amount of work we are able to perform in a condensed amount of
time, and ultimately will increase the efficiency of our training.
By the
time this film was
over, I couldn't help thinking that if it were made today, using modern technology and special
effects, «Dementia 13» might be one of the all
time great horror and psychological thrillers.
in my not so humble opinion the X assist excels at the most every single aspect of what makes a horror movie good whether it's a well - developed sense of dread, incredible shock moments that make you jump at your seat, well presented themes that make you think about the movie long after it's
over, well developed characters that you care about, special
effects and make up that contribute not detract from the movie, etc. one of the good examples of the latter point is how William Friedkin who in my opinion is one of the 10
greatest directors of all
time used a refrigerated room for some of the scenes.
Duration and span of the professional development activities were also important; with activities lasting longer and occurring
over time having a
greater effect on teacher learning.
In this case, the argument is that value - added estimates can and should be used to make decisions about where to position high value - added teachers so that they might have
greater effects, as well as
greater potentials to «add» more «value» to student learning and achievement
over time.
1) Even though CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere has gone up by 30 %
over the last 200 years or so (compared to being stable for 400 000), I have a hard
time to comprehend how an increase from 0.028 % to 0.038 % of CO2 by volume can have any
effect on the thermal mass of the atmosphere considering that water vapor by volume is 50x
greater and has higher thermal coefficients.
Global warming
effects are accumulating, which gives
great power to their results
over time.
Combining the
greater share of weather stations in more urban areas
over time with this urban heat
effect also tends to increase the rate that recorded temperatures tend to rise
over time.
The main difference between H2O and CO2 (apart from the numerical differences of their specific physical properites such as degree of freedom, thermal capacity, physical mass, etc) in terms of their
effects on the atmosphere is that water is capable of condensing into liquid to form clouds and readily and rapidly moves between surface and atmosphere, daily, seasonally, annually and on even
greater time scales, but CO2 does not liquify in the biosphere and transfers
over mostly long
time periods between surface (primarily oceans, seas, etc) and the atmosphere.
Our paper shows that in such circumstances where nighttime cooling is reduced systematically
over time, i.e., under trends of
greater atmospheric greenhouse gases or an increase in cloudiness, the resulting
effect will be to increase minimum temperatures from what they would have been absent the reduced nighttime cooling.
Not that I have any data to the contrary of course, but on the theory that hotter air
over time might cause the rural ground - air temperature difference to increase at T - min
times and thus cause a
greater inversion
effect over time.
This works
great to model the
effects of modest tweaks to the economy
over modest
time spans.
Well, for me to answer this is probably an instance of a fool rushing in... however, though the proposition seems badly stated to me *, I'm guessing that the main point — that the GHE
effect is much, much
greater over time than is the direct energy released — is correct.
Nonetheless, it seems possible that some negative
effects we found for fathers» occupational class and remote home location when children were young might respectively relate to
greater spill -
over of work into family life for small employer or self - employed fathers, and to fathers» long work - related travel
times for some families living in remote parts of Scotland.
The
effect of those 4 things together is far more powerful than your 1st year cash - on - cash, and focusing on cash - on - cash can often seduce you into an investment that is riskier and returns less
over time, or conversely, make you pass
over a
great opportunity.