Sentences with phrase «important cumulative effect»

Such work has an important cumulative effect.

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It is important to note that duration of breastfeeding, the longer a mother breastfeeds in her life (one or more babies and the collective number of months), significantly impacts her risk for breast cancer; the protective effect of lactation on breast cancer risk is cumulative.

Our results suggest that the cumulative effect of breast feeding, as measured using duration, is less important for diarrhoeal disease than the time since breast feeding cessation.

Moreover we are ensuring a coordinated review by the project applicants that looks at the cumulative effects of these three developments at the same time — an extraordinary but important measure that is not ordinarily required.

«Each of us preventing litter is important, but the cumulative effect of this whole community preventing litter and picking up litter can have a big effect,» she said.

The cumulative long - term effect of these pollutants may be more important than the dose at which 50 % of a population of water fleas or minnows dies, he says.

Another important finding of this study was that, while prior effort did have an effect on current achievement — learning is cumulative, after all — the effect was much smaller than that of current effort.

This analysis focused on the relationship between cumulative CO2 emissions budgets and the odds of staying below 2 °C of warming, and thus had the important side effect of establishing cumulative budgets (in this case over the 2000 - 2050 period) as the best predictors of success for any given global emissions pathway.

For major droughts that last a month or longer, cumulative effects again become important as the absence of moisture means that all heating goes into sensible heating, creating higher temperatures, that in turn desiccate plants, and promote heat waves and wild fires.

This is why the example in the post about the amplifying effects of previous, cumulative heating due to a gradual shift in the T distribution, on a subsequent heat wave event, is a very good and important one — Jim]

Marshall et al. (2012) identify a number of important considerations regarding the cumulative effect of technology on the sales environment.