Sentences with phrase «relatively small magnitude»

Given the relatively small magnitude of the apparent effect size, if joint - custody and paternal custody children really do differ in adjustment, more studies with larger samples may be needed to detect the effect at the level of statistical significance.

However, in East Africa most of this seismicity is spread over a wide zone across the rift valley and is of relatively small magnitude.

Not exact matches

The order of magnitude of what's being spent on AIDS vaccines is relatively small compared to what's being spent on AIDS overall.

During that event, 14 phones in the state triggered, but even this relatively small number of phones allowed the seismology lab to peg the magnitude within 1 percent of estimates from ground seismic stations, and located the epicenter to within 4 kilometers (2.5 miles).

The actual magnitude of these changes in test scores, however, is not statistically significant at conventional levels and is relatively small compared with Baron's findings.

... Polar amplification explains in part why Greenland Ice Sheet and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appear to be highly sensitive to relatively small increases in CO2 concentration and global mean temperature... Polar amplification occurs if the magnitude of zonally averaged surface temperature change at high latitudes exceeds the globally averaged temperature change, in response to climate forcings and on time scales greater than the annual cycle.

As such, the areas where the fit is still relatively poor will tend to become smaller in magnitude, narrower in scope, and require a more specialized knowledge simply in order to have a vague idea of what they are.

I also find it more feasible that the KNOWN increase in surface temps across the ENTIRE surface of the ocean is responsible rather than an UNKNOWN change of UNKNOWN MAGNITUDE of UNKNOWN SIGN from thermal vents that cover only a relatively small percentage of the ocean floor.

Drought stress resulted in increased APX levels (P = 0.001), but the magnitude of this effect was relatively small (Figure 4B).

Small - magnitude variations in carbon dioxide concentrations, which had been relatively low since at least the mid-Oligocene (28.4 million years ago), are also thought to have contributed to this glaciation.

The number of adults and children in the home showed statistically significant effects on maternal depression screens, although the magnitude of these effects was relatively small.