Sentences with phrase «isolate other effects»

The fact that new salespeople have an equal chance working with strong vs. weak peers provided a comparative context allowing us to isolate other effects such as the placement.

Not exact matches

Of course, it's possible that the cause - and - effect is actually the other way around — people who feel lonely may purposefully use more social media in an attempt to feel less isolated.

The comparison sample allowed him to isolate the effect of patent lawsuits from other factors that might also influence R&D spending.

Because of the complex interaction of religious broadcasting with other social characteristics such as broader religious and cultural movements, changing social uses of mass media, and changing historical circumstances, it is unlikely that a simple cause - effect relationship between the viewing of religious programs on television and individual faith and church interaction could ever be isolated.

«The study was the first to specifically isolate CO2's effect from that of other global - warming agents and to find quantitatively that chemical and meteorological changes due to CO2 itself increase mortality due to increased ozone, particles and carcinogens in the air.»

In principle, IL - 27 could be delivered via an intranasal spray, so the effects would be isolated to the airways, and not affect other parts of the body.

To isolate the effect of preexisting illness, anesthesiologist Stephen Choi of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, and colleagues have started to track memory and other cognitive skills in people scheduled for knee or hip replacements.

Trypsin inhibitor content of soy protein isolate can vary as much as fivefold.21 (In rats, even low - level - trypsin - inhibitor SPI feeding results in reduced weight gain compared to controls.22) But high - temperature processing has the unfortunate side effect of so denaturing the other proteins in soy that they are rendered largely ineffective.23 That's why animals on soy feed need lysine supplements for normal growth.

Isn't it possible (maybe even probable) that casein has deleterious effects when isolated, but doesn't exhibit cancer - spurring qualities when consumed with the other components in milk?

The effects of casein — particularly isolated casein, separated from other components of dairy that often work synergistically — can't be generalized to all forms of milk protein, much less all forms of animal protein.

While other Twilight Time discs may leave sound effects or licensed music intact, this track is truly an isolated score, presenting Ennio Morricone's score and nothing else in 2.0 DTS - HD master audio.

The challenge comes in isolating the causal effect of a longer school day or year from the effects of other characteristics of schools and school systems that offer more instructional time.

IO: Yeah, so that's actually an important question because what we wanted to control further, to isolate this effect of the teacher - student relationship, is other types of behaviours and other types of experiences which could, theoretically, also have an impact on the behaviours we were interested in.

Though it is difficult to isolate the effects of redshirting from those of other characteristics, such as family background, two recent studies that take advantage of either variation in state birthday cut - off dates or the random assignment of students to kindergarten classrooms have enabled researchers to measure the impact of being among the oldest students in a class.

To isolate the intrinsic merits of a policy it is necessary to eliminate the confounding effects of those other factors.

They can not isolate with confidence the effect of individual criteria, like whether a teacher is certified in the subject or has higher SAT scores because «many of the measures of teachers» qualifications are highly correlated with each other.»

The result is a growing wave of studies that are able to isolate the effect of schools and teachers from the myriad other factors — such as race, family socioeconomic status, English proficiency, and student mobility.

On isolating teacher effects: «Inferring teacher competence from test scores requires the isolation of teaching effects from other major influences on student test performance,» while «the task is to support an interpretation of student test performance as reflecting teacher competence by providing evidence against plausible rival hypotheses or interpretation.»

Value - added models generally use statistical methods to isolate the impact of a factor of interest (like being taught by a particular teacher) on an outcome (like a test score) by mathematically removing the effects of other factors (like student family income or prior performance levels).

In order to isolate the true effect of participating in a school choice program, it's necessary to hold constant every other potential difference between students.

However, these studies were not designed to isolate the effect of the involvement of school administrators in teacher leader selection from other possible factors, indicating that additional research is warranted to investigate this claim.

As the name implies, independent suspensions allow the wheels to move independently of each other, and the effect of a bump on the road encountered by one wheel will be isolated to that wheel and will not affect the wheel on the other side of the vehicle.

The raw material for constructing such a portfolio is 1) a list of potential investment ideas; 2) estimates of intrinsic value; 3) a comparison of these values relative to market price (essentially determining which ideas posses the widest margin of safety); 4) an assessment of each asset's isolated risk as well as its effect on the portfolio's overall risk profile (how does a given asset correlate with other assets in the portfolio?).

Spinosad, one of its active ingredients, is produced by a bacterium first isolated from natural sources (a soil sample collected in the Caribbean).3 Spinosad demonstrates selective toxicity to the flea's nervous system but has low toxicity to mammals and other nontarget organisms.4 However, as with all medications, sensitivities due to individual animal variation can occur, sometimes resulting in side effects.

Isolate the infected cat from others, however, maintain your own physical contact with the cat as the probability of your cat's recovery are increased by receiving affection from you; this infection has an extremely depressing effect on both the mental and physical health of your cat and your cat «s recovery will benefit considerably from your affection and comfort.

The imprinting effects of a mirror placed in the surroundings of a puppy isolated from other puppies have not been studied (to my knowledge).

«Exemplary of [The Chicago Effect: Redefining the Middle's] strengths is a brief interlude in the middle of the main gallery marked by a stripe of grey paint that hangs on the walls and floor between two halves of the white cube... Isolated Fictions: A Reenactment, as the sub-show is titled, presents a provocative case study in the generative possibilities between art schools, small galleries, art centers, and other «middle men» of the art economy.»

I'm not sure offhand of the importance of this, but more rapid cooling from more rapid ascent would reduce the distances over which molecules can diffuse during the time periods involved, which would tend to isolate the effects of the particles from each other, so that more haze particles could go on to become cloud droplets, resulting in smaller and more numerous cloud droplets.

... and all by itself... woops... a possible isolated, independent temperature rise of 3 - 5 degrees C average world surface temperatures by 2100, not even including any other positive forcings, because the forcing is already there waiting for the cancelling aerosol cooling effect to be removed...

One should not mix up a scenario with a forecast — I can not easily compare a scenario for the effects of greenhouse gases alone with observed data, because I can not easily isolate the effect of the greenhouse gases in these data, given that other forcings are also at play in the real world.

Can one isolate the effect of alleged warming from all the other factors that affected Italian lakes over the last 30 years?

Then they used advanced statistical techniques to isolate temperature effects from other variables, such as changes in policies and financial cycles.

During a 10 - year investigation detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research, Stanford University scientist Mark Jacobson isolated the widespread warming effects from all sources of soot â $» the visible residue of burned wood, crops, oil, biomass and other fuels â $» from the climate impacts caused by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.

In order to quantify the isolated effect of an increased RES target, we keep other variables constant.

If you want to draw conclusions about the effects of the bias adjustments («Removal of the supposed biases has destroyed the homogeneity of the data «-RRB- it makes sense to isolate the differences that are due purely to the bias adjustments from those due to other factors.

With a coupled oscillator like this, I am not sure it is possible to determine cause and effect — or even to isolate these natural variables from CO2 or any other forcing.

This political differentiation of global warming attitudes is not isolated; other research shows that in today's political environment, Republicans are much more likely to say that concerns about global warming are exaggerated and that warming's effects will not affect them personally in their lifetimes, and are less likely to say scientists believe global warming is occurring.

Habitat loss alone may be a good predictor of extinctions of threatened and endemic species in biodiversity hotspots, but this takes no account of pervasive synergistic effects of hunting, wildfires and other anthropogenic impacts on isolated populations which may lead to much higher extinction rates compared to predictions from unqualified SAR models alone.

I can see isolated cases as compression at the poles and other curiosities but not on the average, and besides, even with those effects the temperature gradient is rarely actually inverted so in a net sense that is only slowing the cooling of the surface at the expense of equal cooling in the atmosphere which ends in a greater temperature gradient therefore a greater flux of energy upward to space.

What it means is that climate is not isolated from other issues such as gender equality or economic and racial justice, because causality runs both ways: those who are oppressed in other ways are precisely those who are vulnerable to the worst effects of climate change, and precisely those who are least responsible for its occurrence.

Similarly, to view Call to Action # 28 as hived off from other Calls to Action in the TRC Report also could have the effect of isolating legal education from other integrated responses to the TRC (perhaps, for example, involving collaborative initiatives between courts, law societies and law schools).

Numerous studies have been conducted on orphans, prisoners, and other isolated individuals to study the power behind love, bonding, and connection and conversely, its effects when denied.