Sentences with phrase «less effect directly»

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Global trade growth appears to have slowed because China is importing less in both price and volume terms (the price effects being directly related to the volume effects); this will in part reflect a slowdown in Chinese growth.

Immigrants likely compete most directly against other immigrants so the effects on less - skilled native - born Americans might be very small or even positive.

Ceiling fixtures with bell - shaped shades may look lovely from across the room, but the effect is less enjoyable when you're lying directly under them!

In effect, O3 delivers global warming via two routes: the 0.35 watt - per - meter - squared (w / m2) extra heat it traps directly and the as much as 15 percent less vegetation that grows worldwide as a result of O3 damage.

«Instead of targeting mGluR5, which is a very widespread molecule with many different functions, now we can target the persistent sodium current directly, using already approved drugs that are more specific and less likely to cause side effects,» Klyachko said.

Smoking is a leading cause of preventable death and while the numerous health problems directly caused by smoking are well documented, less is known about the effects of smoking on sleep.

WE CA N'T directly detect plants or animals, much less microbes, on alien worlds, but their effects on a planet's atmosphere may be easier to spot.

Interestingly, many of the benefits of fasting don't result directly from fasting itself, but from the effects of reduced calorie intake, decreased fat composition, better sleep, less diet - related inflammation, and lower intake of salt.

Another possible explanation is that non-Hispanic blacks may be less susceptible to the metabolic effects of sugars, although this hypothesis needs to be further tested.12, 54,56 Finally, although observational studies are important in improving our understanding of nutrient - disease relationships, they should not be directly interpreted as evidence of causal relationships without considering other lines of evidence.57

In particular, measures of resource equity have a significant effect on student achievement but are less actionable for schools directly.

Meanwhile, Time Recoil on Vita is a quality port in its own right as it retains the majority of visual effects, explosions and particle effects in accordance with a respectable frame - rate, although when compared directly to the PS4 version; there are clearly some optimisations such as the removal of exterior environments showing crumpled buildings and weather effects, while there is less anti-aliasing on the walls, furniture and floor patterns resulting in some pixelated edges on specific surfaces.

Less directly, many of the above effects would carry the risk of refugee crises, disease outbreaks, state breakdown, and what I'd call «wars of distraction» launched by ruling elites under pressure.

It might make sense to take a small portion of the aerosol that would have been dumped into the troposphere by retired dirty coal plants, and inject that directly into the stratosphere where it will restore the lost cooling effect while (hopefully) doing less harm than the old stuff dumped into the lower atmosphere.

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

The non-radiative effects (convection) and phase changes carry more heat into the upper atmosphere where there is a greater chance for energy to be radiated directly to space, less chance of radiative interaction with molecules on the way out.

So Gray and anyone so inclined is right to follow the money, but since 80 per cent of the global and U.S. economy runs on fossil fuels, if you do some real math the trail leads directly to those who profit most from fossil fuels, not those worth one - ten thousandth or less who study their effects.»

Rachel Carson, who was a quick learner, would be ahead of us in understanding the devastating effects everywhere of still - rocketing population growth combined with consumption of national resources, the thinning of the ozone layer, global warning, the collapse of marine fisheries, and, less directly through foreign trade, the decimation of tropical forests and mass extinction of species.

... when liberalization [in England and Wales] leads directly to the development of new legal services that more fully meet the growing «more for less» challenge of clients, this will have an international ripple effect.

However, I predict that when liberalization leads directly to the development of new legal services that more fully meet the growing «more for less» challenge of clients, this will have an international ripple effect.

First, the few studies that have followed participants beyond the immediate intervention period (6 months or less) have noted a decay of intervention effect on behavior over time, 5,6 prompting members of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Panel: Intervention to Prevent HIV Risk Behavior to identify sustainability of program effectiveness as 1 of the most important questions that professionals who are concerned with risk prevention face.7 A challenge for behavioral change interventions in general, this issue is particularly vexing for interventions that target decreased involvement in sex and substance use with advancing age during adolescence.8, 9 Second, multiple behaviors (sex without a condom, sex with multiple partners, substance use before sex, etc) directly and indirectly place individuals at risk for acquisition of HIV.

The devastating effects of family violence on women are well documented, but far less is known about the impact on children who experience — directly or indirectly — a parent being subjected to violence.