Sentences with phrase «null the effects of»

Estimates from regressions with detailed controls, nearest - neighbor models, and propensity score models all indicate large, positive, and statistically significant relationships between computer ownership and earnings and employment, in sharp contrast to the null effects of our experiment.

After doing so, you can quickly prepare everyone against the attack by ordering them to gather around, putting up shields and other various defences to null the effects of the once deadly strike.

Not exact matches

In 1650, Pope Innocent X issued a bull condemning it as «null, void, invalid, iniquitous, unjust, damnable, reprobate, inane, empty of meaning and effect for all time.»

According to him, her election as a parliamentary candidate of the NDC violated the party's constitution and, therefore, it was null, void and of no effect.

However, not voting has the same effect of casting a blank or null vote, which renders the legitimacy arguement invalid.

The plaintiff is seeking: A declaration that upon a true and proper interpretation of the provisions of the 1992 Constitution, particularly Articles 88 (5), 218 (a) and (e), 284 and 287 thereof, the 1st defendant can not act as the legal representative for Honourable Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori Atta, the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Ghana, in a pending investigation bordering on conflict of interest and abuse of office before the 2nd Defendant; A further declaration that the purported response filed by the 1st Defendant on behalf of the said Honorable Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori Atta in respect of the petition concerning conflict of interest and abuse of office before the 2nd Defendant is unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect whatsoever;

Melaye, through his suit, urged the court to declare the petitions submitted to the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, as «illegal, unlawful, wrongful, unconstitutional, invalid, null, void and of no effect whatsoever».

A declaration that Dr.Zanetor Rawlings» election as a parliamentary candidate elect for the Klottey Korle constituency is null and void and is of no effect as same violates the constitution of the NDC and the rules governing the conduct of the 2015 parliamentary primaries.

Speaking to our correspondent on Wednesday, the commissioner described his suspension from the party as «null, void and of no legal effect.»

The Supreme Court has declared the Register of Voters unconstitutional, null and void, and therefore of no effect.

Effectively, the Plaintiffs sought from the Supreme Court a declaration that the current voters» register (the Register) is unconstitutional, null and void, and of no effect because it contains the names of persons not qualified to vote and persons who are deceased.

THE SUPREME COURT DID NOT DECLARE THE REGISTER OF VOTERS UNCONSTITUTIONAL, NULL AND VOID, AND THEREFORE OF NO EFFECT.

The second key decision of the Supreme Court was to decline to declare the Register of Voters unconstitutional, null and void, and therefore of no effect.

The Supreme Court DID NOT declare the Register of Voters unconstitutional, null and void, and therefore of no effect.

The complainants are praying the court to declare Mr. Ahenkorah's election «null, void and of no effect.»

Delivering his judgment, Justice Maduechesi described the actions of Dr. Chuks Achusi and the national working committee of APGA, who participated in the meeting that purportedly removed Oye as chairman of APGA, as «null, void and of no effect.»

• A declaration that Section 78 (7)(ii) of the electoral Act 2011 as amended is unconstitutional and in effect null and void.

Such calculations generally produce a P value — the probability of obtaining the observed data (or results even more extreme) if there is no real effect (the null hypothesis).

Additionally, they examine MMTV - PyMT control or POSTN null mice to test the effect of POSTN on primary tumor growth and metastasis (Figures 3A, 3B, and S13; Malanchi et al., 2012).

In order to determine whether this effect of follistatin results solely from inhibition of myostatin activity, I analyzed the effect of this transgene in myostatin - null mice.

This protective effect could be attributable to an enhanced apoptotic response of the p21 - null cells.

And the claim typically persists for decades once widely - cited, despite the best efforts of serious investigators to critique weak methodologies and flawed interpretation, or even robust demonstrations of a null effect in healthy animals (as the two independent demonstrations that resveratrol does not extend lifespan in nonobese, wild - type mice over a wide range of doses).»

Although there was no effect in the null mutant, we found ilp2 mRNA expression increased and AKT expression level was down regulated in larvae where either TOR signaling activity or the expression of GBP1 and GBP2 was specifically reduced in the fat body.

In a random effects analysis, ALE scores were tested against a null hypothesis of random distribution across the brain, thereby identifying those regions where empirical ALE values were higher than could be expected by chance.

If those without phone service have a higher prevalence of obesity and are likely to live in areas where minorities predominate, and thus advertisements are prevalent, our effect estimates are likely to be biased towards the null hypothesis.

Another study examining the effects the different lipids in terms of heart disease risk found that «triglyceride concentration was not independently related with CHD risk after controlling for HDL - C, non — HDL - C, and other standard risk factors, including null findings in women and under nonfasting conditions.21, 22 Hence, for population - wide assessment of vascular risk, triglyceride measurement provides no additional information about vascular risk given knowledge of HDL - C and total cholesterol levels, although there may be separate reasons to measure triglyceride concentration (eg, prevention of pancreatitis).»

Suppose you were a young adult male, who is highly athletic (exercises every day), has well diversified diet of fruits and vegetables (still eating meat though), would such a lifestyle have a nulling effect if that person were to also smoke cigars every week?

Therefore, their null result speaks more of adaptation effects rather than baseline sleep.

Despite strong support for the proliferative and growth - promoting effects of estrogens on mammary epithelial cells from animal and experimental studies (78, 79), previous studies on the associations between estrogens and breast density showed largely null or inconsistent results.

Importantly, our null effect estimates from the random experiment differ substantially from those found from an analysis of CPS data, raising concerns about the potential for selection bias in non-experimental estimates of returns.

These studies generally found null to negative impacts of assignment to remediation in terms of credit and degree completion for community college students, though a study of four - year college students using a different method finds some positive effects.

Despite the vast majority of randomized control trials (RCTs) of private school choice showing significant, positive test score effects for at least some subgroups of students, some of those gains have been modest and other effects have been null for at least some subgroups.

According to the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy, the vast majority of the education experiments that have been conducted over the past decade have yielded null effects on student outcomes.

This null to positive effect on earnings for a certain type of misbehavior occurs despite that fact that externalizing is associated with lower levels of educational attainment.

That is, students who didn't think they were ready for college but were pushed into attending may have difficulty finishing and other students who enroll later may be better prepared at that point to succeed, causing the overall effect of these nudges to be null or even negative.

In contrast, the only two studies in the list with both high internal and external validity (Head Start Impact and Tennessee) find null or negative impacts, and all of the studies that point to very small, null, or negative effects have high external validity.

But even if this is true, neither Harris nor anyone else can disentangle what aspects of MOLA's policy changes contributed to improvement and which had null or negative effects.

Is it not the responsibility of scientists to attempt to disprove a null hypothesis and debunk myths rather than assuming that a treatment has a desired effect?

Further, «Although it is statistically impossible to prove the null hypothesis [i.e., no effect], if an effect existed within this sampling of dogs, it was small and clinically insignificant.»

Imagine, say, a bell - shaped curve based on the null hypothesis that climate change is not happening (and not having an impact on increasing extreme weather events), and there is this really long tail out to infinity; and supposing we get an off - the - charts category 7 hurricane in January, we still can not attribute it or its extra intensity or unusual seasonality to climate change, even if there is only a one in kazillion chance it might occur without climate change having an effect — that is, it is way out there in the very tiny tail of this null hypothesis curve that fades out into infinity — the tail that says, afterall, anything's possible.

If we accept that as a null hypothesis, the odds of seeing a 0.8 ºC difference in the absence of human effects is over 5 sigma, with odds (at minimum) of 1 in 1.7 million.

Fahy illustrates one by citing a recent piece by Dan Vergano of USA Today in which Vergano explores the «file - drawer effect» — what appears to be a growing tendency of researchers to avoid publishing negative or null results.

This is how I understand it (correct me if I am wrong): It's like with increasing GHGs in the atmosphere the dice are increasing loaded for such record - breaking events, but under the null hypothesis (that increasing GHGs have no effect) there is this very long long tail of possibility.

The equivalent of the null hypothesis is that increasing CO2 has no effect on climate.

A null hypothesis is typically of the «no effect» type, but it needn't be.

In medicine, biostatisticians came to the conclusion decades ago that the null hypothesis was of limited utility; what was important was measuring the magnitude of the effect and placing statistical confidence bounds on that.

Elsewhere in this thread, I have predicted that Kevin Trenberth will not focus on the definition of a null hypothesis, but will instead cite climate data as evidence that it is wiser to assume significant human effects, unless proven otherwise, than to assume the lack of these effects.

If the null is that human effects are real and significant, and if that hypothesis can not be falsified, the implication is that we should make a serious effort to blunt the magnitude and impact of our greenhouse gas emissions.

The AGW hypotheses posits an effect that is NOT «null» — moreover, the CAGW hypothesis of IPCC posits an effect that is pronounced enough to represent a potentially catastrophic risk to humanity and our environment..

However, it's simple enough to argue (not conclusively) that the the «null» hypothesis should be a postive effect rather than zero: our understanding of atmospheric physics predicts that adding CO2 to the atmosphere increases its clear - sky opacity to certain bands of IR radiation.