Sentences with phrase «measurable influences on»

For example, the author finds that a state that saw its broadband lines increase from none in 1990 to 45 per hundred households in 2006 experienced a 10 - 12 % increase in marriage rates of women in this age group as a result (controlling for other measurable influences on marriage rates).

Overall, the investigators found that foods, nutrients, dietary patterns or supplement use assessed before the start of the clinical trial had no measurable influence on the effectiveness of a multivitamin on CVD risk in middle - aged and older men.

According to their multi-scale analyses, a single ion has a small but measurable influence on millions of water molecules, that is 10,000 times more than previously thought.

When schools are considered in the aggregate, typical approaches to data use by districts and principals have no measurable influence on student achievement.

But the typical approaches to data use by districts and principals had no measurable influence on student learning across school levels in the aggregate.

The decrease in CO2 levels had no measurable influence on temperature.

And Rosenberg's second point, that even a perfect greenhouse policy is unlikely to have a measurable influence on such threats, is buttressed by Brad Plumer's relevant recent Washington Post analysis of how little even aggressive carbon dioxide reductions would affect the pace at which sea levels rise: «Can we stop the seas from rising?

Does anyone seriously believe that they can estimate in any meaningful way the «damage», in dollars, over decade to century spans, that would ensue by raising the TOE by 1 - 2 degrees amortized over the same spans, assuming for the moment that CO2 actually has a measurable influence on the TOE?

Nothing is really different and CO2 caused the difference so CO2 has no measurable influence on temperature.

Ozone has a measurable influence on the Earth's radiative sprectrum centred at around 9.5 microns but it too is not mentioned as a greenhouse gas in the Kyoto Accord (because it would confuse the ozone depletion issue which the environmentalist lobby also promote).

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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.

The new media team bought display advertising significantly less than they did search ads, and focused the display piece of the puzzle more on measurable goals such as list - building than on amorphous «influence - the - discussion» ad runs.

They posit that Gabby's family ties to the scandal - prone Ken Ofori Atta and his overbearing influence on his uncle, Akufo Addo, may have influenced his firm's selection due to its clear lack of capacity and measurable expertise in the field.

In other words, though the reforms had measurable, meaningful benefits for students, they also had a major — and not entirely positive — influence on democratic self - determination, the workforce, compensation, race relations, and local authority.

But, I noticed that there were a lot of influences and forces that had a measurable impact on a student's success, and were out of my control.

Educational outcomes are shaped by many factors, but research shows that teacher quality is the most important in - school factor influencing student achievement.59 Of course, other out - of - school factors, which are often caused by poverty, can also influence student outcomes.60 Because teacher quality has been shown to have a measurable impact on standardized test scores, some academics have started trying to directly measure the impact of Act 10 on student outcomes by examining how students fared on standardized tests after its passage.

I agree to a large extent with these points, with some nuance: Based on physics, there must be a small influence of CO2 levels on temperature, but until now, that is not measurable in the data records (neither in detailed ice core records).

-LSB-...] After 300 years of global warming, during nearly all of which we could not on any view have influenced the climate to a measurable degree, it is scarcely surprising that recent decades will be warmer than earlier decades.

Most global warming skeptics believe that humans have some measurable impact on global temperatures and the climate, but that natural climate forces, over longer periods, will overwhelm the human influence... in addition, skeptics believe that the human influence will not result in the hysterical catastrophic climate disasters presented by doomsday pundits...

These findings are intriguing because they suggest that an environmental influence (ie, the impact of maternal depression remission) had a measurable impact on the child's psychopathology.