Sentences with phrase «measurable effect it has on»

What worries D'Alessandro most isn't so much the economic impact of disappearing head offices but the less measurable effect it has on the nation's pride and self - esteem.

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The world's favorite color also has measurable effects on the body, Stephen Westland, the chair of color science and technology at University of Leeds, explained recently on the Conversation.

This two - term presidential cycle can often have a measurable effect on markets, as I wrote about in - depth in «Managing Expectations.»

«You can in fact reduce the upper ocean [temperature] by a degree Celsius, maybe 2, which would have a measurable effect on the intensity of the hurricane, but the practical concerns were hard to overcome.»

Waste to energy technology has been backed as an «affordable» way for municipalities to manage wastes and generate energy, with «almost no measurable effect on human health», according to scientists and industry experts at the recent Energy Recovery Symposium in Toronto, Canada.

By 1976 LEAA had poured close to $ 5 billion into the nation's criminal - justice system, with no measurable effect on crime rates.

Based on McCann's research concerning what the churches are doing in the field of mental illness and mental health, the authors of Action for Mental Health wrote this indictment of our lethargy and unconcern: «The prevalence of religion in modern American society, as measured by church membership... does not seem to have had any measurable positive or negative effect on mental health....

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

Do you think a more realistic understanding of the impact of divorce on children would have a measurable effect on divorce rates?

Coconut oil is definitely one of the healthiest oils on earth does have measurable effects on burning fat.

But a recent study by Joseph Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, and Robert C. Pianta, the dean of the education school there, demonstrates that when teachers are trained in how to create a better environment in the classroom, that can have a measurable effect on student performance.

Those messages may not have the same measurable neurochemical effects on a ten - year - old brain as they do on a ten - month - old brain, but they do have a profound impact on students» psychology and thus on their behavior.

The mass media have a powerful impact on public perceptions of health issues.1 Headline health scares have a measurable effect on behaviour, and routine coverage influences people's assessments of personal risk, utilisation of health services, and views on public policy.2 - 7 The media not only provide information but also help to create or reinforce ideas about what is common sense or normal.

Dark matter also plays a central role in structure formation and galaxy evolution, and has measurable effects on the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background.

Steve Capps wondered if gravity could affect atomic clocks: «Since time slows in a gravitational field, are atomic clocks so sensitive that perhaps moving them from the ground floor to the second or third floor of a building would have a measurable effect, given that gravity would be less on the higher floors?»

Following a brain study on an unprecedented scale, an international collaboration has now managed to tease out a single gene that does have a measurable effect on intelligence.

«As a field, we've often focused on understanding and changing individual psychological processes, but these findings show that changing individual psychology can trigger important second - order effects with measurable benefits for everyone in the environment.»

GENEVA — An effect of general relativity that is barely measurable on Earth has been spotted in full force around a black hole.

How universities fare on reputational quality - of - life and academic rankings — such as those published by the Princeton Review or U.S. News & World Report — can have a measurable effect on the number of applications they — and their competitors — receive and on the academic competitiveness of the resulting freshman class, according to a new study.

«Neither the view of wind energy facilities nor the distance of the home to those facilities was found to have any consistent, measurable, and significant effect on the selling prices of nearby homes,» said Ben Hoen, the report's author and a consultant to the lab.

This means that a change of 40 - 50 ppmv of CO2 has no measurable effect on temperature... That doesn't mean that there is no effect at all, but it is smaller than implemented in current models.

Examples include phytoestrogens and heavy metals, both of which can have real and measurable effects on the animal's phenotype.

If nuclear DNA damage was removed, such as via the somewhat distant molecular nanomachinery of chromallocytes, programmable nanorobots moving from cell to cell to fix each breakage, then aside from the elimination of cancer, would it have any other measurable effect on health and longevity?

The signature effects of human - induced climate change — rising seas, increased damage from storm surge, more frequent bouts of extreme heat — all have specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity.

In recent years Greenland has been losing so much mass that, along with changes in Antarctica and the amount of water stored on the globe's continents, it appears to be having a subtle but measurable effect on the rotation of the Earth itself.

Whilst this often extends the hospital stay, it also has measurable effects on physical fitness lasting years after surgery.

The idea that a meditation practice has measurable effects on heart and general health is not well known in the halls of most hospitals and clinics, but in the past year, there have been several exciting pieces of information that have led me to practice and teach the benefits of meditation to my patients.

Plus, a 2012 study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience found participating in an eight - week meditation training program had measurable effects on how the brain functions even when you are not actively meditating.

Here we demonstrate that bisphenol A exposure during a time point analogous to the second trimester in humans has real and measurable effects on brain development and behavior.

To say that more clearly, despite all the rumors and stories, the actual science on phytoestrogens says soy has little measurable effect on your free testosterone levels.

In one study, 6 weeks of training just the abdominal muscles had no measurable effect on waist circumference or the amount of fat in the abdominal cavity (32).

New research has shown, without any doubt, that consumption has a measurable effect on uric acid, the liver, pancreas and general health.

Eating soy (or any sort of isoflavone supplement) has no measurable effect on free testosterone levels.

What would be a typical daily amount of turmeric ingested to achieve beneficial, measurable effects on general health?

An acute dose of < 250 — 300 mg caffeine is unlikely to have a measurable effect on urine output, although such an effect is likely to be seen when the dose exceeds ∼ 300 mg (22).

But does chocolate have enough of these chemicals to have a measurable effect on libido?

[7] In contrast, they find that sticker prices have no measurable effect on enrollment or attainment.

«In one recent study, she and her coauthors reported that cursive in particular had measurable positive effects on older children's spelling and composition skills» — because cursive is faster than print (though the speed argument is itself a disputed point).

Only one - third of the programs had well - developed evaluations that produced measurable effects on student achievement or change in instructional practices.

Phase 1 trials would be small, nongenerablizable empirical studies whose dependent variable is not year - end test scores, but «next - day or next - week outcomes: measurable effects on student behavior, effort, or short - term learning.»

In addition, results are quickly measurable because social technologies have a direct and obvious effect on performance.

School libraries with certified School Library Media Specialists have a measurable effect on the reading scores of students across the country.

Instead, its treated as having corollary effects on measurable challenges like dropping out.

While not all parental involvement will be positive or have a measurable effect on student behavior, many successful schools use this approach.

On the whole, Urquiola said that vouchers had been a «disappointing» reform effort, with minor measurable effects on student performancOn the whole, Urquiola said that vouchers had been a «disappointing» reform effort, with minor measurable effects on student performancon student performance.

The report card also considers the measurable effects those laws and policies have on schools.

Paglayan says she found no evidence that collective bargaining had a measurable effect on teacher salaries or education funding.

It's much harder to identify and implement curricular interventions that have a measurable effect on them.

I think it remains to be seen whether the subscription model as it currently stands has a long - term, measurable effect on author income.

School libraries with certified School Library Media Specialists have a measurable effect on the reading scores of students across the country.