Sentences with phrase «larger than the positive»

It turned out that, as often is the case, the disruptive effects of a quick economic change were larger than the positive net effects the eventual equilibrium was predicted to have.

BTW it's highly possible for an increase in CO2 to not lead to an increase in temperature — if the negative feedback is larger than the positive feedback.

Not exact matches

The positive economic data, which included the release of better - than - expected purchasing managers» index (PMI) readings last Wednesday, and a large current account surplus in some euro zone economies, have given confidence to investors to buy euros.

But for many, the pleasures of positive earnings will bring with it a larger - than - predicted tax bill.

It is a positive thing that the TCJA was not the largest tax cut in history, since adding $ 6.8 trillion to the debt would worsen our fiscal situation even more than the tax bill already did.

Stochastic clearings are not a problem for the banking system as a whole, because banks with unexpectedly large adverse clearings (which leave them with smaller reserves than desired) can sell assets to or borrow from banks that experience positive clearings and reserves greater than desired.

Now if you go back ten years, a period that includes the bubble, the Group of Fifteen did better, averaging a positive 8.13 % per year.Even for that ten year period, however, they underperformed the value group, on average, by more than 5 % per year.6 With a good tailwind, those large cap funds were not great — underperforming the index by almost 2 % per year — and in stormy weather their boats leaked badly.

A positive sense of well - being, optimism, belonging, and purpose comes from being a part of and contributing to something larger than ourselves.

In his famous book, «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,» Keynes writes, «a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic... if the animal spirits are dimmed and the spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die; though fears of loss may have a basis no more reasonable than hopes of profit had before.»

Nevertheless, the relatively strong performance of Japan and China, Asia's two largest economies, underlines the more positive picture in large parts of the global economy so far in 2017, even if the overall level of growth is steady rather than elevated.

Asian Economies» Performance Indicative of Improved Global Economic Growth The relatively strong performance of Japan and China, Asia's two largest economies, underlines the more positive picture in large parts of the global economy so far in 2017, even if the overall level of growth is steady rather than elevated.

Inspired by Obama and undeterred by parliamentary scandals, as yet uncommitted to any particular party, but increasingly aware that few arenas have the opportunity to create greater positive change for large numbers of people than the righteous use of political power, he wants to study politics, philosophy and economics.

Veering off the beaten track in Ubud the Ayurvedic Detox and Yoga retreat is located at Kumara, a centre which has been transformed by it's vibrant and larger than life owner Claude Chouinard into a haven of relaxation surrounded by positive energy.

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* And in the largest and possible most systematic study to date, conducted on five different ethnic groups from both Chicago and New York involving over 1,400 subjects Mosenkis (2000) found far more positive adult outcomes for individuals who coslept as a child, among almost all ethnic groups i.e. African Americans and Puerto Ricans in New York, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Mexicans in Chicago than there were negative findings.

LONDON (ICIS)-- The UK chemical sector stands to benefit from shale gas more than any other European country thanks to a positive political environment and its large reserves, according to UK trade association the Chemical Industries Association (CIA).

Not necessarily — a negative anti-government vote counts just the same as a positive vote when it goes in a ballot box and the evidence from 2010 suggests that a large proportion of Conservative voters were driven more by anti-Labour feeling than support for the Tories.

For both David Cameron and Gordon Brown there is a large discrepancy between the figures, both men have a higher job approval rating than they do a positive / negative impression rating, suggesting there are many people who dislike Brown or Cameron, either because of their politics or their personalities, but who nonetheless admit they are doing a good job.

A 4 - year study by professor Leslie Perlow and research associate Jessica Porter, both of the Harvard Business School, published in the October issue of Harvard Business Review, demonstrates that time off can have a larger, positive effect on individual and organizational productivity than more hours on the job.

«Although the current studies demonstrated that telling women that men prefer women with body sizes larger than the thin - ideal can have immediate positive effects on women's body image, it is unclear how long these effects may last,» Meltzer said.

Each drug garnered mainly positive reviews, some reporting effects far larger than the average, peppered with a few pans, De Barra reports in the March Social Science & Medicine.

The basic idea is that, in the case of large nuclei such as gold, which have a very large positive electric charge, electromagnetic interactions play a much more important role in particle production than they do in the case when two small, equally charged protons collide.

The material showed an oxygen reduction reaction of about 15 millivolts more in positive onset potential — the start of the reaction — and 70 percent larger current density than platinum - based catalysts.

Detections by the transit method are contaminated to a large extent by «false positives», produced by sources other than transiting planets.

We used a false discovery rate rather than standard significance measures to avoid an inflated false - positive rate as a consequence of the large number of hypothesis tests (42).

Anyone who accepts that sunlight falling on ice free waters which has less reflectivity than sunlight falling on a large ice mass covering those waters and also accepts that this reduction in albedo has a positive feedback effect, leading to further warming, can't help but opt for A or B, it seems to me.

As was observed in W01A8.1 RNAi embryos, loss of W01A8.1 activity resulted in the formation of large LipidTox - positive structures (Figs. 4H and 4I) that were clearly bigger than droplets observed in control embryos using the same protocol (Figs. 4C and 4D).

The Kepler science team has long predicted that the «false positive» rate for these very large radii planets would be high — a projected 30 - 40 percent rate for candidates larger than Jupiter versus less than 10 percent false positive rate for candidates smaller than Jupiter.

But when it comes to blood sugar and insulin sensitivity, the positive effects of fish oil are so powerful that they almost rival the effects of exercise, while a large new study showed that the synergistic blood sugar - lowering effect of fish oil and regular exercise is more than impressive.

In a small 1998 study, healthy people given vitamin D supplements during the winter reported greater positive feelings than people given no D. However, a larger study in women over 70 found no significant mental health benefit.

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And yet, for all this positive growth, the shadow of the slightly overlapping Toronto fest looms large over the Italian event: nowhere is this more apparent than in the scheduling of the Venice programme, which is so front - loaded as to induce a faint sense of panic.

The larger - than - life, almost insanely upbeat finale ensures that Trolls ends on a positive note, at least, although it's ultimately difficult to imagine older viewers finding much here to get truly worked up over.

This comports with the interpretation that average peer achievement influences everyone's test scores, since Asians score higher than whites in math overall (the Asian - white score gap is positive and relatively large in math, 0.62 of a standard deviation in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades).

The Urban study also finds evidence that schools that serve a smaller percentage of FTC students have larger positive impacts on college enrollment than schools where a majority of students are on scholarship.

This year's gathering, which is one of the largest youth leadership conferences in the U.S., comes at an opportune time, as today's youth are more motivated than ever to make a difference in their communities and affect positive change for the world.

In 11 of the 18 nations, the estimate of the effects of class size were positive and statistically significant, suggesting that students in larger classes perform significantly better than students in smaller classes.

Once again, the results showed even larger positive effects than those obtained for the full sample.

But the perceived threat of messing up in front of such a large crowd is far greater than the positive outcome that is likely to take place.

In other words, even though the average charter has a zero or negative impact on test scores, there are more charters with very large positive or very large negative test - score impacts than there are traditional public schools with such extreme outcomes.

For example, the positive effect is largest for students who report having more than one bookcase in the home, a rough indicator of the quality of their home environment.

-LSB-...] Assuming a proposed intervention involves students doing virtually anything more cognitively challenging than passively listening to lecturing - as - usual (the typical straw man control in education research), then a researcher is very likely to find a positive difference as long as the sample size is large enough.

On the other hand, the observational estimates for charter schools that contribute to the lottery study are larger than the observational estimates for other charter schools (though the latter are still positive and significantly different from 0).

Inspectors said many positive things but did say that a larger cohort of trainees could result in outcomes being less good than previously.

Additionally, schools that had a larger share of FTC students and were therefore more financially dependent on the FTC program had a smaller positive effect on low - income students» college - going rates than schools with a smaller percentage of FTC students.

As well, CT showed larger effects on the mathematics achievement of special need students than that of general education students, the positive effect of CT was greater when combined with a constructivist approach to teaching than with a traditional approach to teaching, and studies that used non-standardized tests as measures of mathematics achievement reported larger effects of CT than studies that used standardized tests.

The moderating effects of organizational characteristics are to be expected, since district size and school size almost always «make a difference,» no matter what the focus of the research is.180 Elementary schools are typically more sensitive than secondary schools to leadership influence, although previous leader - efficacy research has reported mostly non-significant effects.181 And the rapid turnover of principals has been widely decried as anathema to school improvement efforts.182 Now we have some evidence that the positive effects of leader efficacy are also moderated by school and district size (the larger the organization, the less sense of efficacy among principals).

It hits all of main messages, includes the right voices, is positive rather than preachy, and effectively connects with the larger strategic goals of K - 12 education.