Sentences with phrase «less substantial impact»

Taken as a whole, information about local school rankings has a less substantial impact on public thinking about teacher policy than it has on thinking about school choice policies.

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I noted that pricing decisions by businesses might well have a substantial impact on customers» tipping behaviour, by making it more or less convenient, for example, simply to «round up» to the nearest dollar (or currency denomination).

Such near - term benefits provide the basis for a no - regrets GHG - reduction policy, in which substantial advantages accrue even if the impact of human - induced climate change turns out to be less than current projections show.

The implication here might be that transcription - coupled repair has less of an impact on de novo mutations, though the authors note that their study was only powered to detect a substantial difference (> 17 %) in mutation rate.

«In most cases, two - thirds of the FAFSA form can be completed using tax information, so in less than 10 minutes, we were able to address a major educational problem and had a substantial impact on aid applications and college enrollment,» Long said.

Graduation rates have been studied less often, but the available evidence indicates a substantial positive impact. . . .

Investors clearly understand that higher fees can have a negative impact on their net return, as is evident in the price war in mutual fund fees, but a few basis - points difference in visible fees is far less meaningful in performance impact than the often - large hidden costs.14 For example, switching from a low - turnover strategy to a sloppily constructed strategy that spends scores of basis points in incremental trading costs can cost the investor dearly in performance.15 The same holds true for the buyers of opaque high - fee products (hedge funds and illiquid private investments), for which substantial costs may be hidden from sight.

The less negative balance of the last five years have not had a substantial impact on terminus behavior yet.

Far from having a substantial impact on reducing net emissions of GHG, Wolf says, European rapeseed oil - based diesel and U.S. corn - based ethanol have in fact only made small contributions - 13 % less than conventional diesel and 18 % less than petrol, respectively.

-- so one might very well find much less urbanization and microsite impact in the USHCN network which has already been through one level of quality control — obviously not perfect, but still a substantial effort was made — to the ROW network where there is negligible evidence of comparable quality control — and, in the case of China, evidence that key QC efforts (e, g, something as simple as inspection of station history at all stations in network) were not done and claims to have done so were misrepresented in Jones et al 1990.

«The changes to come over the next 10 years will be less visible than the global financial crisis or the bursting of the dot - com bubble — and yet their impact on banking's economics and even fundamental business models will be much more substantial,» McKinsey claims.