Sentences with phrase «individual impact effects»

«Previous studies have looked at individual impact effects and have made statements about their potential for destruction, but not within the framework of a coherent comparison.»

Not exact matches

«The large majority of individual major events — ranging from the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand 100 years ago through to 9/11 and recent events in Iraq and Ukraine — impact major stock markets by around 10 % or less, with the effect being fully reversed within a month or so,» he wrote in a note to clients.

Beneficial effect of lower effective tax rate in light of pricing and benefit design assumptions associated with the 2017 temporary suspension of the non-deductible health insurance industry fee; excludes Individual Commercial segment impact

In effect, the entire VW chain is being impacted by an allegedly fraudulent decision reported by a few individuals in the company.

In sophisticated economies, the impact of consumption may be less than in emerging economies that are largely import - export driven, but the consumption magnitude is even more pronounced due to both a greater wealth effect and standard of living that enable individuals to spend more freely with disposable income.

Within budgetary revenues, personal income tax revenues declined by $ 1.2 billion (0.8 %), largely reflecting the impact of tax planning by high - income individuals, which recognized tax liabilities in the 2015 taxation year before the new 33 per cent tax rate came into effect in 2016.

In these cases, the ethics of justice make two demands: that the negative impact on the environment and on certain people will be offset by a clear benefit to the larger society, and that individuals and communities suffering adverse effects are offered a means of redress and are duly compensated.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

In addition, it is not possible to identify the individual impact of removing chocolate milk on milk sales or milk waste without unrealistically assuming that all other effects are either insignificant or cancel each other out.

There are some outstanding individual sources such as the mercury content in shark, swordfish and tuna but it is really the combined effect and impact of our entire environment that we should be aware of.

Neighbors blasted the plan, which is the first individual project to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's controversial Mandatory Inclusionary Housing rezoning, saying the «affordable» income requirement didn't match with those in the area and that there was no environmental impact study to see what effect the building would have on neighboring Fort Tryon Park.

The new ban, which will take effect on Oct. 18, will continue to impact citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Syria, but will now also include travelers from Chad, North Korea and certain individuals from Venezuela.

Topics include the rights of persons with disabilities; the rights and responsibilities of drug users and ethical considerations for dignified addiction treatment; improving maternal and child health through advancements in women's rights; the effects of violence; access to affordable and appropriate health care and treatment; health disparities between different population groups; health during war and conflict; the health of internally displaced persons and refugees; and recognition of social and structural forces that impact the health of individuals and groups.

«Previous studies of the impacts of drought on flowers and bees have looked at individual species, often in the laboratory, but we used an experiment with rain shelters to examine the effects on real communities of plant species living in chalk grassland,» said Dr Ellen Fry from the University of Manchester, who set up the experiment.

The brain - on - a-chip allowed the researchers for the first time to look at both the drug's impact on the individual regions as well as its downstream effect on the interconnected regions in vitro.

«ImPACT found the largest effects for individuals who had been concussed, across all outcomes,» said Dr. Braithwaite, who initiated the idea for this study.

Crucially, the researchers will also assess how variables interact, which have the greatest impact on individual and group performance, and what the cumulative effects of changing them are.

«We did not publish a report and wait for the effects to filter through, we made a difference to individuals through the practice of research, and then through the conferences we kickstarted the process of writing about the project and analysing the impact our work had on the lives of those who were involved.

A new University of Washington study shows that impacts at individual armored sites can scale up to have cumulative, large - scale effects on the characteristics of Salish Sea shorelines and the diversity of life they support.

As in humans, the ill effects of TBI appeared to depend on the severity of impact, as well as the individual's age and genetic makeup.

Pharmacogenomics, the study of how an individual's genetic variations impact the response to drugs, has emerged as an essential tool to optimize therapy and minimize the risk of adverse effects.

These pesticides undergo individual risk assessments to identify potential environmental effects, but the impact of combinations of these compounds is often unknown.

For individuals seeking the muscle growth and energy provided by using this supplement, they should research the impact of creatine use and weigh the potential for positive and negative effects.

This set of resource includes: • 6 attractive PowerPoint presentations which lead the class through each of the lessons • Fun and thought provoking activities and discussion starters, worksheets and questions to reinforce the learning • 6 differentiated homework tasks • A mark sheet which allows pupils to track their own progress • An end of unit test to prepare the students for exams or can be used as a form of assessment • A complete teacher's guide including easy to follow lesson plans • An answer booklet to help the teacher along The lessons are: Lesson 1 — Looking into ethical and moral dilemmas such as driverless cars and the impact of technology on modern life Lesson 2 — More ethical dilemmas including the ratings culture, medical apps, sharing personal data and cyber bullying Lesson 3 — Environmental issues with technology and how organisations and individuals can reduce these effects Lesson 4 — The Computer Misuse Act 1990 Lesson 5 — The Data Protection Act 1998 Lesson 6 — Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 For more high - quality resources written by this author visit www.nicholawilkin.com

All three effect estimates — treatment vs. control, effect of voucher use, and impact of private schooling — are provided in the longer version of this article (see «Summary of the OSP Evaluation» at www.educationnext.org), so that individual readers can view those outcomes that are most relevant to their considerations.

Hard experiences of conflict, war and trauma have inevitable and negative impact on social, economic and political life of individuals and communities, with long term effects on their function and development, creating number of dysfunctional individuals and traumatized societies, and trauma transfer on generations.

As well as looking at the individual impact, the research also assessed the effect that structured sports programmes from Greenhouse Sports - which includes basketball, tennis and table tennis - has on the wider culture of the four participating schools.

She discovered that her impact was.68, well above the.40 effect size recommended as the hinge point for determining one's effectiveness.2 «I haven't used it yet to look at individual students, but that's where I want to go next.

Using an individual panel data set to control for student fixed effects, we estimate the impact of charter schools on students in charter schools and in nearby traditional public schools.

More and more actual research is showing just how devastating is the impact of TFA — not because of any individual TFA corps member, but because of the cumulative effect of churn on districts.

Having seen the effect of these communications, it just made sense to increase the impact by having more letters and individuals writing, too.

[4] And teacher effects estimated by Chetty et al. (2011) appear to include the impact of reduced class size in addition to the impact of individual teacher skill.

Note: this conversion from effect size to additional months» progress differs slightly between the Toolkits and the impact of individual EEF - funded projects.

The recency effect — that the most recent observations have the largest impact on an individual's...

In addition to examining the cumulative effect of constraining minimum variance portfolios, the researchers studied the impact of individual constraints.

After - tax returns are calculated using certain assumptions, including using the highest individual federal income tax rates in effect at the time of the distribution s and do not reflect the impact of state / local taxes.

We are told that we have the most effect with our own legislators and that individual e-mails or letters have far more impact than just adding one's name to a prepared letter or e-mail.

And data from communities and countries that sterilize community dogs show the same results: a decline in the number of dog bites, with «officials point [ing] to a variety of factors: the obvious effect of sterilization on dog behavior, including behaviors associated with mating, reduced numbers of dogs and reduced home range of individual dogs resulting in fewer chance encounters with humans, an increased respect and thus kinder treatment towards dogs due to the positive role model of rescuers, and the impact of community education by rescuers that often accompanies these efforts.

Another study of the effect of stress on elderly individuals concluded that stressful situations had less of an impact on persons with companion animals than on those who did not have pets.

PTSD Projects is spreading awareness about the damaging effects PTSD can have on an individual and also the impacts it makes on everyone around them.

It was an incredibly cinematic moment, and the impact and fidelity of the sound effects really stood out as the audio muffled while the group was enclosed within their wall of shields whilst hundreds of arrows clashed against metal of the shields, each with their individual «clinks» and «thuds», and Maruis on perfect cue screaming «HOLD!!»

With individuals ranging from UNICEF through to the UAE government present the multiple workshops, panels and discussions, there will also be a diverse grouping of arts figures presenting their insider perspective on the impact and effects of culture.

Because individuals in the developed world have the greatest impact each, people choosing to have smaller families in the richest parts of the world will have the greatest and most immediate positive effect — a vital choice given the urgency to address which climate change.

74 % of people would take immediate action to change their lifestyle now if they knew that climate change would affect their children's lives 52 % of people believe that their actions as an individual can help stop the effects of climate change Only a quarter (26 %) believe that climate change is already impacting on the UK Respondents cited flooding as one of the most common effects of climate change that will happen in the UK (69 %)

Regionally however, it is well established that the magnitude of the individual effects varies significantly giving forests an overall climate impact that is very much location dependent.

Coinciding with the introduction of IWTs, some individuals living in proximity to IWTs report adverse health effects including annoyance, sleep disturbance, stress - related health impacts and reduced quality of life.

The ecological effect of forest loss in individual regions versus combined may include the possibilities of offsets and amplifications of the modeled effects, depending on where impacts are studied and what ecological mechanisms are implicated.

Most of the warming in climate models is not from CO2 directly but from feedback effects, and the evidence for strong positive climate feedback on temperature is very weak (to the point of non-existence) as compared to the evidence of greenhouse gas warming (yes, individual effects like ice cover melting are undeniably positive feedback effects, the question is as to the net impact of all such effects).

Really you need to take into account the effect on individual health and diet of the food itself, any residues on it, the effect on farmers» lives, on community's lives, on the health of the animals in field, of the crops and the crop yield, on the climate impact, on runoff into rivers, streams and oceans, on the economic system in which the farms operate, and more.

The researchers think this breakthrough is important not just for keeping energy use down in individual buildings, but because of the major impact super cool roofs could have on the urban heat island effect.