Sentences with phrase «relatively small effects»

MWMT and MAP had relatively small effects on tree growth (less than 40 % of the analyzed groups showed significant correlations), whereas the effect of MCMT on tree growth was mostly negative among the detected significant groups (Fig. 3B).

Concern with relatively small effects of possible anthropogenic caused global warming is a misplaced distraction, and will probably lead to the public losing confidence in scientists, and could weaken the support needed when real problems occur.»

The vast majority of them (42/52) are common, with MAF > 1 % and relatively small effects on risk.

Past efforts to link genetic variants with traits and diseases have largely uncovered common variants with relatively small effects.

GDP had a relatively small effect, even though the original projections didn't assume the 2007 - 2009 recession.

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.

«Our observation that plants use roughly the same amount of water regardless of water availability suggests that a warmer or longer growing season may have a relatively small effect on evapotranspiration and thus could affect landscape water balances less than we previously thought,» Hamilton said.

Although host genetic factors are thought to account for approximately 25 % of the variability in malaria incidence, few genomic variants have been shown consistently to contribute, and these have a relatively small effect.

Sireci writes that the only evidence of noncomparability is the «relatively small effect noted just for learning - disabled males» and concludes that this could not support the continued practice of flagging.

529 assets may have a relatively small effect on federal financial aid eligibility because they are considered assets of the parent (Participant) in the Expected Family Contribution (EFC).

And for this reason, most investigators are forced to acknowledge that the modest run - up in fossil fuel induced CO2 during this period would have had only a relatively small effect.

Giving far too little weight for the wide flat part enhances the tails and widens erroneously the confidence range, but that error has a relatively small effect on the confidence range as the tails fall sharply at the edge.

Thus if the concentration of carbon dioxide doubles there is relatively smaller effect in moister regions than in the dryer regions so the temperature effect of the increased carbon dioxide is greater in the dryer regions.

For employers, this means that even decisions that have a relatively small effect on each individual beneficiary may result in litigation.

How is it that increasing the share of children growing up with continuously married parents has such a relatively small effect on the share of children experiencing these problems?

It is also possible that the relatively small effect of maternal feeding behaviors is overwhelmed by cofounders such as television viewing or consumption of calorically dense foods (eg, sweets or French fries), which are, like maternal feeding behaviors, associated with both markers of socioeconomic status (58, 59) and adiposity (58, 60) and an increase in frequency between ages 15 and 36 mo (61, 62).

Parental social class had a relatively small effect on antisocial behaviour, and although substantial independent contributions came from being male, having a low reading age, and attending more than two primary schools, conduct disorder still predicted the greatest cost.

This allowed for assessing relatively small effect sizes within a narrow confidence interval.

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That sort of instant effect is a potential threat for Groupon (grpn), LivingSocial, Foursquare, and other relatively new companies that have revolutionized online marketing for small businesses in the last few years.

It's worth noting that because Tesla has on balance built a relatively small number of vehicles — it just crossed a 100,000 annual threshold last year — and because it sells just three cars, its recalls are going to have a disproportionate effect.

The Syria effect was relatively small and didn't drag the market down.

First, the networking effects — because oil is a relatively small contributor to our GDP and manufacturing is a relatively large contributor to our GDP, any damage done by currency effects driven by oil risks having an outsized effect on a much larger industry.

The foreign buyers» tax has an indirect effect on a relatively small group of buyers, but the psychological impacts of its introduction have been profound and have lingered.

Economists predict that the direct effects of the tariffs will be relatively small for both China and the United States, since they apply to only a fraction of each country's economic output.

For the sake of simplicity, some diagrams may not include relatively small or uncertain effects.

Spillover effects on other countries, as reflected in bond yields, were more limited than in previous episodes of turmoil, reflecting the relatively small scale of Cyprus's problem, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in Washington.

So I'm not convinced that the relatively small time difference will have had much of an effect.

I've suggested, with my colleagues, that this pattern might be the result of an «underdog effect,» in which being a small kid might actually increase performance (because you have to work relatively harder), but only if you make it to the NHL.

Although the effects of maternal food supplements on mean birthweight are relatively small, because of their influence across the population distribution they have great biological significance.

A prospective, controlled study of the effect of breast milk on infection among low birth weight infants was conducted in India in 1981.18 Although the sample size was small, 62 infants, the study design was a randomized block design in which feeding schedules for breast milk or formula were randomly allocated within groups of infants that were determined to be relatively homogeneous with respect to factors predisposing to infection.

But research suggests that the effect of the various sleep training methods is relatively small long term.

I appreciate that cost and down - time are important factors in bridge building, but spread over generations relatively small investments in superstructure can have a positive effect on community pride, maybe even tourism.

Although the number of participants in the study was relatively small, the researchers report that it was sufficiently large to detect clinically relevant effects.

Because they are much smaller than other solar eruptions — like flares or coronal mass ejections — prominences had previously been thought to have a relatively minor effect on the sun's atmosphere, and therefore also on the solar wind.

«Although the effects regarding theory of mind were relatively small, we were excited to see initial evidence for the short - term enhancement through in - game storytelling,» Bormann says.

«The sources of this liquid water will require more observational studies; however, the research shows that the effects of relatively small amounts of water on Mars in forming features on the surface may have been widely underestimated.

This phenomenon has been named the Central Park Effect because of the surprisingly large number of species found in New York's Central Park, a relatively small island of green within a metropolis.

Limitations of the study acknowledged include the difficulty in isolating SSRI effects from those of their indications for use, lack of information on SSRI dosage precluded dose - response analyses, and the relatively small sample of DD children resulted in imprecise estimates of association, which should be viewed with caution.

However, due to relatively small numbers of patients within sub-groups, the researchers caution that they did not find definitive evidence to show that effects of vitamin D supplementation differ according to baseline vitamin D status.

The numbers studied were also relatively small, and it wasn't possible to account for the potential effects of air pollution.

And she goes on to say that even though the size of the effect seems relatively small, the ubiquitous nature of ambient air pollution exposure suggests that exposure to it might have considerable impact on stillbirth risk at the population level.

Proponents say the Far North Act will have little effect on the timber industry because it affects an area farther north where trees are relatively small, grow less densely and are not economical to harvest.

Differences in brain size within a species, such as humans, are relatively small, making it difficult to tease out the effects of brain size and the effects of other factors.

The VLBA, a series of 10 individual telescopes located at sites across North America, can create, in effect, an enormous single telescope with an aperture thousands of kilometers wide, thus providing the resolution necessary to probe the relatively small region at the core of our galaxy.

That analysis, which broke down the effects of a number of different possible influences on the global temperature, found that El Niño provided only a relatively small, though still noticeable, assist.

These findings suggest that long - duration spaceflight has significant effects on cardiovascular function, yet these effects are relatively small.

In the first trial (Neurology 2007; 68:51 — 55), 12 weeks of phenylbutyrate treatment produced no beneficial effects, although the small number and relatively large age range of the patients may have hidden a modest effect.

The direct warming effect of CO2 is relatively small, and only becomes dominant through positive feedbacks in computer models.

The discovery team presumes that VP113 has an icy reflective surface like other relatively small, outer Solar System objects, as the dwarf planet is observed to have a pink tinge, which is hypothesized to result from chemical changes produced by the effect of radiation on frozen water, methane, and carbon dioxide.

There was a measurable effect to lower blood sugars in well controlled type 2 diabetic patients, but the effect is relatively small.