Sentences with phrase «meaningful effect»

We know that housing has a direct and meaningful effect on health.

We think the most meaningful effect of extra corporate cash, however, has been the merger and acquisition (M&A) activity that has occurred in the market recently.

Positive reinforcement helps to keep people active... at least up to the point that they stop seeing that their actions have meaningful effects in the real world.

And yet, a series of recent studies have shown meaningful effects of the law on student achievement, which has done precisely zero to change public perception.

In general, of course, we want large effect sizes in our practice, and we want clinically meaningful effects.

In addition, implementation efforts often failed to have meaningful effects on classroom practice.

Margin debt is soaring, valuations are now elevated even on the assumption that profit margins 70 % above their historical norms will be sustained indefinitely, yields are compressed on nearly every asset class, and there is increasing evidence that Fed «stimulus» is incapable of exerting meaningful effects on the real economy and is exerting only speculative effects on an already overspeculative market.

The search for effective curricula persists, with the federal government in the United States currently funding randomized clinical trials to compare various curriculum models to determine whether one or more curricula produce educationally meaningful effects for children's language skills, pre-reading and pre-math abilities, cognition, general knowledge, and social competence at the end of preschool and through the end of first grade.

When asked what has been the most useful tool in the positive psychology toolbox at Geelong, I was amazed to hear Karen Reivich say that Shelly Gable's work on Active Constructive Responding has had the most meaningful effect on the school community.

And this element of skill training appears to be crucial; as Catalano and colleagues (2004) write, «To produce meaningful effects on specific target behaviors, it also appears necessary to include opportunities in social competence promotion programs for students to practice and apply learned skills to specific, relevant social tasks (Hawkins and Weis 1985).»

In such noisy systems, it is easy to mistake a chance observation for a robust, biologically meaningful effect.

But can Quantic Dream truly deliver a setup where your actions and decisions have really meaningful effects?

Given that fake IDs, US mailing addresses, and the creation of an LLC are all quite easy to procure — even from abroad — it's not immediately apparent what meaningful effect, if any, this process will have against protecting the platform and its users from foreign malicious actors.

Interestingly, the point estimates on the measures of local economic conditions indicate that neither unemployment rates nor house prices have statistically significant or economically meaningful effects on the duration of co-residence.

Consistent with previous research, supplemental programs (e.g., Destination Reading, Plato Focus, Waterford Early Reading Program, Headsprout, Academy of Reading, and LeapTrack) did not show meaningful effects on reading achievement for K - 12 students..

«This experimental study provides strong evidence that Facing History's approach to professional development has meaningful effects on teachers and their students,» said Beth Boulay, Ed.M.»

As in the context of the sale and advertising of unregistered securities, the potential for S.E.C. involvement may be the most meaningful effect of the securities regulation of litigation finance.

You're going to be setting a tone, a work ethic, and a set of values for the company whether you mean to directly or not, and setting the right example can have a meaningful effect on the mentality of your group.

Mr. Zuckerberg said this month that the Cambridge Analytica scandal had no meaningful effect on Facebook's business, which is expected to show sales growth when the company reports quarterly earnings this week.

These exercises help us to identify events that could have a meaningful effect on the economy and to which policymakers may need to respond.

But whether those changes will actually have a meaningful effect on gun sales is difficult — if not impossible — to know.

However, since Canada's population is concentrated in markets that already fetch their oil at higher world prices, even if western Canadian producers were to access better prices for their products, that would be unlikely to have a meaningful effect on gasoline prices or other segments of our economy.

At least 10 % of a portfolio must be committed to a market segment to have a meaningful effect.

Bitcoin got slightly lower following the announcement, but the decline is minuscule compared to the recent moves in the coin and it seems unlikely that it will have a meaningful effect on the cryptocurrency segment, despite the theoretically bearish implication.

LCHS 7/8 Principal Jarrett Gold — who's been involved with McFeat and LCUSD Supt. Wendy Sinnette in learning more about the program and sharing its principles with a local audience — said he's hopeful adjusting things like school schedules or homework and grading policies could have a meaningful effect on an at times overworked, overwhelmed student body.

24 % said it's had no meaningful effect.

24 percent said it's had no meaningful effect.

«The goal was not have «no meaningful effect»,» said Greenberg.

«Massive study: Birth order has no meaningful effect on personality or IQ.»

«Given the growing worldwide interest in pay for performance programs and the unclear American health policy agenda, these findings should be considered by policymakers when assuming that programs like these simply need more time to have a meaningful effect,» they conclude.

Scientists have discovered several other methane production inhibitors, but 3NOP appears to be the first to achieve a meaningful effect while being safe for cows» health and the environment.

Finding out your partner's love language will help you invest in actions that will have a meaningful effect on your partner.

Whether this has any meaningful effects in the long term is not known, although many observational studies do show that people who eat more fiber have a lower risk of heart disease (27).

It may feel like walking is too low - impact to have a meaningful effect on your weight, but that's not true.

Another way of asking what happens in this experiment is to ask whether this difference in hormonal and metabolic responses to diets of equal caloric content will have a meaningful effect on, say, fat accumulation and risk factors of chronic disease.

Yes, some of these glitches had no meaningful effect on gameplay, but enough of them did to make a difference during my playthrough.

The degree of private school choice does not have a meaningful effect on the wage for this characteristic.

For a school trip that will have a lasting and meaningful effect, Krakow is the perfect place to explore.

Houston Chronicle, 8/15/16 «The findings: On average, charter schools have no meaningful effect on test scores or employment, and actually have a slight negative impact on earnings.»

In short, our brief refutation text had meaningful effects on respondents» conceptions and misconceptions about the standards, and these effects persisted for at least a week.

A large body of literature shows that some teachers are better than others, and that teacher quality can have meaningful effects on student success — not just on test scores, but also on graduation rates and even job success.

The meaningful effect of Reading Recovery participation on students» self - concept is related to the additional attention, or Significance domain, that students receive during several months of Reading Recovery.

According to John Hattie, acceleration is highly effective, coming in near the top of his ranked list of influences on student achievement, while enrichment does not reach the «hinge point» at which an intervention has a meaningful effect on achievement.