Sentences with phrase «overall effects tended»

In a prospective European case - cohort study stratified by sex, overall effects tended to be slightly stronger in men compared with women, although adjustment for confounding factors like obesity, physical activity, or educational level attenuated the association in men but strengthened it in women (135).

Not exact matches

«Making cycle helmets compulsory would be likely to have an overall damaging effect on public health, since the health benefits of cycling massively outweigh the risks and we know that where enforced, helmet laws tend to lead to an immediate reduction in cycling,» policy coordinator Chris Peck said.

M: Overall, there are major differences in performance in relation to money spent, and the correlation tends to be that the best performers are countries which, in effect, make sure that young people are set free to pursue their own agenda and express their creativity, and that systems that entrench the young too long in training or in hierarchical structures of apprenticeship and deference to their elders don't get the same value for their money.

The efficacy of U.S. gun laws is hard to pin down for two main reasons, Hemenway says: Gun laws aren't typically very strong, and studies tend to look at overall effects on violence.

Overall, studies in the field indicate that children from low - income families tend to show the most gains from social emotional learning interventions, but results for other groups of students are more mixed, although a number of studies show positive effects.

They tend to believe that as the planet warms, low - level cloud cover will increase, thus increasing planetary albedo (overall reflectiveness of the Earth), offsetting the increased greenhouse effect and preventing a dangerous level of global warming from occurring.

Moderate drinkers have lower overall mortality and tend to have reduced cardiovascular disease (including heart attacks and strokes), as alcohol has a cardio - protective effect — even for those with preexisting hypertension.

Speaking of black levels, they tend to waiver just a bit toward purple, but the overall effect isn't terrible.

The film nonetheless has a distinctly «budget look» when the green screen backdrops and CGI scenery tends to stick out; despite solid practical production design work by Eve Stewart (Les Miserables), the overall effect is that Victor Frankenstein resembles a cheaper version of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes movies (and their version of Victorian England), visually speaking.

But his film maintains enough hustle that even simplistic gestures tend to get by, contribute profitably to the overall effect of more - than - competent observation, as when, in an unstressed behind - the - credits bit of business, a girl whose «talent» is packing a suitcase has her suitcase burst open at the foot of the airport gangway.

Hunting Horn: similar to Hammer, but tends to have less damage with the ability to create songs that have different affects, overall great weapon for groups, such as multiplayer Sword and shield: able to use items while holding weapon, able to block as well Switch Axe: Ability to morph inbetween Axe and Sword form, sword form tends to have different effect than axe.

Literacy researchers tend to be less interested in the overall, or more systemic, effects of policy and reform.

For example, a study of counseling practices in six states shows that effective counseling strategies tend to have positive effects on classroom attendance, discipline, and overall achievement (Carey & Dimmitt, 2012).

Overall, cooperation tends to promote higher achievement than competitive or individualistic efforts (effect - sizes = 0.67 and 0.64 respectively).

Effect sizes tended to be larger in schools where students had lower average reading performance overall.

In effect, when they move up (or down), the overall market tends to also move up (or down), given that the S&P 500 index characterizes the market.

But when optical thickness gets to a significant value (such that the overall spatial temperature variation occurs on a spatial scale comparable to a unit of optical thickness), each successive increment tends to have a smaller effect — when optical thickness is very large relative to the spatial scale of temperature variation, the flux at some location approaches the blackbody value for the temperature at that location, because the distances photons can travel from where they are emitted becomes so small that everything «within view» becomes nearly isothermal.

Whenever I talk about Global Warming, I generally try to stress that «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» describe different parts of an overall effect that we tend to lump together.

The overall view of the situation seems to be that patients who are prescribed Xarelto, whether it is to prevent blood clots, stroke, or for treatment, tend to suffer far worse side effects than what they may have been experiencing originally.

''... my tentative sense is that, on balance, the Supreme Court's decisions post-Bush v. Gore have tended to have the overall effect of nudging the law slightly in a liberal direction.»

Generalized regression models (logistic regression for dichotomous outcomes, linear regression for continuous outcomes) were used to estimate the overall adjusted effects of Healthy Steps.26, 27 These models included site variables to account for the fact that families within sites tend to respond more similarly than those at different sites.

As these factors «pile up» on each other they tend to create an overall strengthening or challenging effect on a person's relationship readiness.

The main disadvantages are: that universal programs are expensive, the individual benefits tend to be small, and it can be difficult to find overall effects.