Sentences with phrase «point than the effect»

There is no better instance of the point than the effect of the media in reducing the diversely known by actual personal experience to a putative sameness.

Not exact matches

TAC grew 10 % in Q1 2018 compared with Q1 2017 and represented 16.2 % of total revenues, 290 basis points lower than in Q1 2017 and 100 basis points lower compared with Q4 2017 due to revenue mix effect.

(As shown in the graph, the interest rate applied to the loan is expected to be lower when it switches to P&I (by around 40 basis points) but this effect is more than offset by the principal repayments.)

It's a side effect of the game's still - growing community: at some point, Super Mario Maker will likely be more traditional levels than anything else, but for now, musical stages are some of the most popular ones in the game.

Our starting point has always been that the imposition of the GST should not have an effect on wages because wage - earners will gain more from the accompanying fall in income tax rates than they will lose from the introduction of the GST.

If you factor in the effect of the discount points lowering the mortgage rates, then a few of SunTrust's mortgage products actually charge higher rates than usual.

A quarter - point hike in the US federal funds rate might provide a welcome dose of clarity to Asian markets and emerging markets more generally, but any indication that the path of further increases will be other than short and shallow could yet have a further disruptive effect.

The former effect reflects the narrowing of margins on housing and small business loans: the rate on standard variable rate housing loans has fallen by 1.3 percentage points more than the cash rate since mid 1996; in 1998, the average variable - rate on small business loans has fallen by 0.7 of a percentage point relative to the cash rate.

I was pointing out that the article makes it seem a lot worse than it is for effect along with a video of abuses nearly 30 years ago almost like an infomercial for books sales.

Thus far every scientific test has shown no substantial evidence of a prayer having been answered, and actually the evidence points to prayer having no effect at all other than wasting time.

So the point I want to make today is not that all who subscribe to patriarchy are abusive, but that patriarchy in a religious environment, just as in any environment, has a negative effect on the whole community and creates a cultural climate more susceptible to abuse than one characterized by mutuality and shared leadership between men and women.

In a world where cause and effect have been shown to operate at so many more points than was earlier imagined, we are forced to ask to what extent prayers of petition and intercession which plead with God for the speedy fulfillment of certain clear objectives, really depend upon a belief in the «God of the gaps».

What in an older kind of philosophy would have been called the chain - of - cause - and - effect is here seen as being very much richer; it is a congeries of occasions, events, pressures, movements, routes, which come to focus at this or that point, and which for their explanation require some principle that has brought and still is bringing each of them, rather than some other possible occurrence, into this particular concrete moment of what we commonly style «existence».

For items that are going to be in the oven longer than cookies, like muffins or cakes, I also add a little moisture (maybe an extra 2 Tbsp per cup), to counteract the drying effect of the extra time things have to spend in the oven to finish cooking at high altitude (lower boiling point, and all that).

Wenger has mostly used the second string squad at the start of any season to great effect, most teams aren't at full strength or match fit and he plays that Wengerball numbers game, throwing in squad players who are fit and raring to go whilst the first team get ready, we'll win 2 of our 3 opening games and he'd rather that than splash 100m on 3 players and get the same amount of points.

my point is if he lacks in tracking back etc than keep him were he is the most dangerous and will effect the team and let the others do the tracking back.

In effect, Indiana coach Larry Brown, who often knows more about what he doesn't like in a point guard than what he does, was admitting he had made a mistake in jettisoning Jackson.

The Marco Silva effect has worked well for Watford this season as they have put up a better than expected W4 D3 L1 and have now taken points off both Liverpool and Arsenal as well this term, so they have been in the bigger games.

This result will have more of a detrimental effect on United than Liverpool, as it sees them sitting twelve points behind the leaders and four behind Arsenal in fourth.

He said that 4 weeks ago he would never have said that, but having watched the way both teams have performed over these last 4 weeks, unless United have a drastic change of form, he can not see us getting more than 2 points from the games against Liverpool, Citeh, Chelsea and Spurs, which will in effect push us tumbling down the table.

Although the health effects of these chemicals to babies are not yet known, it's still an important safety risk to consider, because as the study pointed out, babies actually inhale more air per surface than adults, putting them at greater risk for inhalation exposure.

Beneficial effects of breastfeeding on the Wide Range Assessment of Visual Motor Abilities at age 3 years seemed greater for women who consumed 2 or more servings of fish per week (0.24; 0.00 - 0.47 points per month breastfed) compared with less than 2 servings of fish per week (− 0.01; − 0.22 to 0.20 points per month breastfed)(P =.16 for interaction).

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

The big question for any program then becomes, is the effect due to suppression greater or less than the break - even point?

But as Nigel Farage is fond of pointing out, the main effect of UKIP is probably more psychological than psephological.

Some doubt that debates would have much effect on the election, given Cuomo's huge campaign funds advantage over Astorino and the fact that Cuomo leads by more than 30 points in the polls.

It is this bandwagon effect that helps explain why support for the government increased by ten points over the course of the campaign, rather than going to minor parties — as has been the case elsewhere.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to rush left, driven by the «Nixon Effect» — even though Cynthia Nixon trails him by more than 40 points in the polls.

The study found no evidence of a corresponding effect based upon gender — in fact, female Senate candidates received on average 1.2 percentage points more votes than polls had predicted.

As G2 swings closer to the black hole's event horizon — the point past which even light can not escape — gravity has already stretched its leading edge into a ribbon more than 90 billion miles long, pulling it away from the tail, which isn't yet feeling the black hole's full effects.

The Nottingham experiment was based on the theory that an area immediately outside the event horizon of a rotating black hole — a black hole's gravitational point of no return — will be dragged round by the rotation and any wave that enters this region, but does not stray past the event horizon, should be deflected and come out with more energy than it carried on the way in — an effect known as superradiance.

«The fact the effects observed were limited to only women with children younger than 13 years suggests that parity was not sufficient to produce changes in flashes and points instead to the increased nurturance needs of young children,» the authors wrote in the journal article.

For example, Sodroski points out that blocking a conserved region of the CCR5 - binding site on gp120 might be less likely to have harmful side effects than blocking the receptor itself.

Since children of mothers with preclinical RA also had an increased risk of epilepsy, Rom said the findings point towards an important role of the disease itself rather than an effect of treatments for RA.

«There are more than a dozen good studies now that point to a net positive effect of migrants on the economy,» says Goldin.

Ameisen points out, however, that the dosage of 30 milligrams a day given to study participants was far lower than his up to 270 - milligram daily dose, which studies had shown people could tolerate without displaying side effects such as somnolence and muscle weakness.

Indeed, the authors point out that Ipilimumab might better effect recurrence - free survival than adjuvant interferon and should be considered as an option by oncologists in this field considering its activity across subgroups including those with high tumor burden.

This «lensing» effect would concentrate dark matter along an axis passing through Earth's core, reaching densities about a billion times more than average at the focal point (arxiv.org/abs/1507.07009).

In reality, it may also contain the largely unpolarized hazy glow from other galaxies, which has the effect of making the galactic microwaves coming from any particular point of the sky look less thoroughly polarized than they actually are.

Even today, Trinity visitors look for the effects of radiation everywhere, including the scrub inside the interior perimeter close to the point of detonation, which is shorter than the vegetation on the rest of the plain.

The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism of action that might be suitable as combination treatment with immunomodulatory treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials of progressive disease.»

This was much higher than the effect seen in patients receiving placebo (1 in 10) and met the pre-specified primary end - point.

By analyzing BMI distribution rather than using cutoff points, University of Pennsylvania postdoctoral fellow Jonathan Mitchell says his team detected much stronger sleep effects among already obese teens.

«Obviously, it is important to obtain those data sooner rather than later, but at this point, coping with the huge effects of the earthquake and tsunami has to take precedence,» their statement says.

Overall, at 12 weeks, the mean fatigue score in the GES group was 4 points lower than in the control group, consistent with a moderate size effect.

The mean physical function score was 6 points higher in the GES group than in the control group, consistent with a statistically significant but relatively small effect.

ApoB backers point to recent analyses that found high apoB levels better predicted patients» likelihood of suffering a heart attack or stroke and a genetic study that showed that reducing apoB had a bigger effect on cardiovascular risk than did reducing LDL cholesterol.

Schlesinger and Ramankutty reach broadly similar conclusions, but they also point out that even though greenhouse gases now dominate global warming, if part of the warming during this century is indeed due to solar changes, the additional greenhouse effect may be weaker than was previously thought (Nature, vol 360, p 330).

Failing to correct for the Flynn effect can have even bigger consequences, as courts frequently consider IQ scores using tests introduced more than a decade earlier — meaning scores can be inflated by 3 or more points (see «Life or death ``, below).

It was more than twenty years ago that Bill McKibben pointed out the simple fact that there is no longer any nook or cranny of the globe untouched by human effects.