Sentences with phrase «reduce overall effectiveness»

Be sure to carefully consider your options, though; it is possible to be too diversified and then reduce the overall effectiveness of your portfolio.

There's enough talent on display, from a promising filmmaker to a breakout cast, to make Little Accidents a modest watch, but its paper - thin characters, awkward romantic subplot, and predictable conclusion reduce the overall effectiveness of the film — a shame, because it's the type of small independent film you want to root for.

The interactions between these drugs could be additive, meaning the drugs work well together; synergistic, meaning the drugs enhance each other's effects; or antagonistic, which occurs when the combination of drugs seems to reduce overall effectiveness.

Not exact matches

One of the most destructive forces that stifles innovation, frustrates consumers, and reduces the overall efficiency and effectiveness of any industry is the friction created as the industry grows organically.

Strategic Advisers can make no guarantees as to the effectiveness of the tax - sensitive management techniques applied in serving to reduce or minimize a client's overall tax liabilities or as to the tax results that may be generated by a given transaction.

«We believe that early treatment and self - recognition of depression are essential for reducing suffering in young people, and our results validate the overall effectiveness of the program,» says Karen Swartz, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and founder of ADAP at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Its effectiveness overall is somewhat less than that methotrexate, but it has been shown to reduce signs and symptoms and slow radiographic damage.

Whether you're heading outside for a run or hitting the weights at the gym, performing a seven to 15 minute dynamic warm - up is important not only to reduce the risk of injury1, but also to positively influence the power output and overall effectiveness of your workout.2

To the extent that teacher effectiveness is partly a function of some teachers being better suited for some students, schools, and contexts, efforts to redistribute teachers without attending to context could readily reduce the overall quality of teaching.

Learner feedback and continual professional development allows online instructors to continually hone their technical support skills, reduce time and workload investment, and increase overall effectiveness.

IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 24 — Volvo's Whiplash Protection System (WHIPS), first introduced in 1999 as a safety device for front seats designed to reduce head and neck injuries in rear - end collisions, received independent verification today of its overall effectiveness in a study released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

SAI can make no guarantees as to the effectiveness of the tax - sensitive management techniques applied in serving to reduce or minimize a client's overall tax liabilities or as to the tax results that may be generated by a given transaction.

In this instance, however, the overall weight of the evidence from the cumulative body of information contained in this Public Health Review demonstrates that there are significant uncertainties about the kinds of adverse health outcomes that may be associated with HVHF, the likelihood of the occurrence of adverse health outcomes, and the effectiveness of some of the mitigation measures in reducing or preventing environmental impacts which could adversely affect public health.

But it is important not to insulate consumers from those price increases, as diluting the price signal reduces the effectiveness and drives up the cost of the overall policy.

These shortcomings have drastically lowered the ETS's overall effectiveness, and resulted in Germany failing to meet its national goal of reducing emissions by 40 percent by 2020.

(U) Each school owner that teaches driver education courses shall collect adequate student data to enable the department to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the driver education course in reducing the number of violations and accidents of persons who successfully complete the course.

This brought cuts to public hospital funding and a proposal for a GP co-payment: hallmarks of policy measures geared around reducing health expenditure rather than impacts on people and what was best for the sustainability and effectiveness of the health system overall.

The Commission notes that taking steps to reduce and more effectively manage the number of parties to native title proceedings is of great importance in improving the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the native title system, not only in respect of consent determinations.

Overall, attachment - based interventions that focus on improving caregiver sensitivity have limited effectiveness (d = 0.05, not significant) in preventing or reducing disorganized attachment.