Sentences with phrase «many small effects»

The post is filled with technical details for those looking for a deeper dive into the science, but for the layperson this is probably the most interesting bit: Using a cool gadget that floods a room with a specific color of light, Westland's research group «found a small effect of colored light on heart rate and blood pressure: Red light does seem to raise heart rate, while blue light lowers it.»

GDP had a relatively small effect, even though the original projections didn't assume the 2007 - 2009 recession.

These levels of participation had no small effect on the findings, says Kensing.

A second paper in 2010 found a slightly smaller effect (a 0.5 to 0.6 percent decrease in wage rates per 1 percent increase in corporate tax rates) but still concluded that labor was ultimately paying the tax.

In other words, a corporate tax cut would benefit investors and shareholders, with only a small effect on wages.

A change in the deduction would have «a rather small effect» on home values, according to Nobel Prize - winning economist Robert Shiller, who opined on it in an interview this week on CNBC's «Power Lunch.»

That pushed down the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark price for mid-continent oil, but had a much smaller effect on Brent crude, the benchmark price for most oil outside North America.

Small effect as other MCT oils, but more expensive.

In an analysis of obesity and energy supply in the WHO MONICA (Multinational MONItoring of trends and determinants in CArdiovascular disease) Project, which encompassed Western European countries, Australia, the United States, and China, there was a small effect of total fat, but the energy supply from total sweeteners per capita showed no relation with obesity (40).

Sugar alcohol have fewer calories than table sugar and have small effect on the blood glucose level.

Bigger effects are easier to detect than smaller effects, while large samples offer greater test sensitivity than small samples.

In 2001, Belsky suggested that, «as more and more children were spending more and more time in non-maternal care arrangements, at younger and younger ages, even small effects, when experienced by many children, might have broad - scale implications for how classrooms, communities and even societies operate.»

«It is a small effect.

The data stratified by both social class and Jarman showed that in more deprived areas, there was a strong effect of infant feeding in the lower and higher social classes, whereas in the more affluent areas, there was a much smaller effect of infant feeding, especially in the higher social classes.

Family Cohesion had the greatest effect (d =.36) while Family Expressiveness (d =.12) and Family Conflict (d =.05) had a small effect.

The reason UKIP dropout had such a small effect on the swings to the Conservatives is that it benefitted all three of the other main parties, it just helped the Conservatives a bit more.

In fact, the second common misunderstanding revolves around the impact of «small» effects: small effects can have big consequences.

If you think about major elections, such as Brexit (51.9 % vs. 48.1 %) or the fact that Hillary ultimately lost the election by about 77,000 votes, contextually, such small effects suddenly matter a great deal.

And when you have a smaller effect, you are much more likely to pass [it] along from generation to generation.»

«My personal view is that it's a much smaller effect,» says astrophysicist Hayley Macpherson of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

The anomaly is about a 10 billionth of the acceleration due to gravity on earth, so it's a 10 - billionth g of a g force, so it's a very, very small effect you're looking for and the kick you get, the rebound you get from light and heat coming off the spacecraft, is also very, very small.

Using detailed computer simulations at NERSC, astrophysicists showed that this would have a small effect on time - delay cosmology.

«It's a small effect, maybe a 15 percent improvement,» Rusted says.

A spritz of perfume or a spray of disinfectant has a small effect, but frequent use of these products by millions of people adds up to a big impact.

But a small effect is not no effect, points out James Fowler, a professor at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Division of Social Sciences, and co-author of the 2007 The New England Journal of Medicine paper that described the influence of social ties on obesity rates.

But given that 11 million Americans live along major roadways, even a small effect could have widespread consequences.

She and her colleagues found themselves surprised how small an effect the norms had on a person's BMI.

«Small effects will make a big difference,» says Rest.

Unemployment increased slightly in the more recent group, compared with the 2004 — 05 cohort analyzed by Vitae in 2008 (from 1.7 % in 2008 to 2.4 % in 2010), but the economic crisis seemed to have only a very small effect on the employment prospects of recent Ph.D. graduates.

Several obesity genes have been documented in the past, but they each have only a small effect on weight.

Planetary scientist H. Jay Melosh is of course correct that the Deep Impact probe will have a negligibly small effect on comet Tempel I's orbit [«Impact Geologist Waits for the Big One to Hit,» Discover Dialogue, July].

Having this allele reduces the risk of severe malaria by about 40 % in Kenyan children, with a slightly smaller effect across all the other populations studied.

Another, much smaller effect is gravitomagnetism, or frame - dragging, in which the spin of a massive object tugs space - time in the direction of its rotation, like a spoon twisted in honey (see «A twist in space - time»).

Jacob said the study shows that the changes in the elevation of the landscape and the stress on faults are so small the effect will be extremely minor.

It was not a small effect either.

«In earlier studies either very rare variants with big effects or common variants, which usually only have small effects, could be analysed.

In the latter half of the decade, La Niña conditions persisted in the eastern and central tropical Pacific, keeping global surface temperatures about 0.1 degree C colder than average — a small effect compared with long - term global warming but a substantial one over a decade.

Vitamin B6 has been shown to have a small effect on hangover in scientific studies, as have prostaglandin inhibitors, a class of drugs that includes aspirin and ibuprofen; for optimum effectiveness these should be taken while you are drinking, not the next morning, though they can also help the morning after.

«But what's interesting is that we find that the substitutions that have small effects change over time.»

Plotkin explained that this is because purifying selection favors mutations that have a small effect.

The study focuses exclusively on the type of evolution known as purifying selection, which favors mutations that have no or only a small effect in a fixed environment.

Finding genes with small effects requires that a lot of people be studied, Paternoster points out, and that could be hard to do because there aren't many studies where DNA was collected and MRIs were done.

They found ten other genes scattered throughout the genome with smaller effects on Septoria.

«Our study shows, and this has been known for a long time, that most of the substitutions that occur are substitutions that have small effects,» McCandlish said.

Conversely, demographic factors such as gender and age had comparatively small effects on the perception of the dress image.

The number of people involved in Kable's study was too small to detect any tiny improvements in performance, so it's possible a small effect was missed.

Compared to typical get - out - the - vote activities, having a failing school in the neighborhood had a smaller effect on turnout than face - to - face contact, but a noticeably larger effect than campaign phone calls and mailers.

«Some cells slowed down their cycle completely, so that they could no longer divide, whereas others kept dividing quite normally and only experienced a small effect.»

However, because of the extremely small effect size of the BD risk (i.e., odds ratio ~ 1.2), Prof. Nakao Iwata says, «a large number of risk genes are still unidentified.

The intervention, undertaken over 12 weeks, had a smaller effect on reducing physical disability.