Sentences with phrase «significant mean effect»

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This final rule is an economically significant regulatory action within the meaning of section 3 (f)(1) of Executive Order 12866, because it would likely have an effect on the economy of $ 100 million in at least one year.

However, when families are making these decisions themselves, their marginal tax rates will have significant effects on the lifetime earnings differences, especially for high - income families or families who currently qualify for means - tested benefits.

to ihaftr, thats why we have to make a paradigm shift in our concept of Who is God from dualism, meaning He is separate from us to Holism, one with Him, This is very significant this shift for it will have a profound effect on the development of our concsience, Social responsibility and even altruism will be high virtue in this level of consciousness.

Hi Julie, matcha is finely ground green tea so it could potentially have an effect on iron absorption at a meal, but research in this area is conflicting meaning there are many other factors to consider and it's not clear - cut whether there's a significant negative connection with tea consumption and iron levels.

The conclusions show that the substitution effect to other non-taxed commodities with relatively high calorie content is significant and that imposing a sugar tax does not necessarily mean lower calorie consumption for consumers.

All of these skills are expected of everyone in business, but women have them just as much as men do, and to keep them out of the workplace would mean a significant loss of talent, not to mention the huge effect it would have on the economy.

This means that even small sleep changes, over time, will have significant negative effects.

One randomized controlled trial comparing home - visited families with control participants who received other community services found a statistically significant difference in mean depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences in depressive symptoms between intervention and control group participants post-intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment in kindergarten.10 Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, 16,17

Whether there existed something acceptable which Labour could offer in exchange would of course depend on negotiations, However, this sort of agreement has significant advantages over post-election deals about coalitions or lesser forms of cooperation — they require neither agreement of a programme (which inevitably means political compromise) nor standing down in areas (which can have detrimental effects in the longer term or on other elections such as Euro elections fought over larger geographical units).

The gene for NPAS4 was a top hit, and significant for an important reason: it is an early - onset gene, meaning that its effects could be exerted on the brain rapidly unless HDAC5 was there to inhibit it — just the molecular event Cowan and his team were seeking.

The selection standard for astronaut height is meant to go from «5th percentile Asian women up to the 95th percentile of Caucasian men,» but NASA?s recent decision to halt development of a smaller space suit could have a significant effect on the number of women going into space.

The correction means that the meta - analysis now says people who report eating lots of this particular fat have significantly less heart disease; previously, it said there was no significant 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.

This means that cocktail effects can be predicted based on information from single chemicals, but also that small amounts of chemicals when present together can have significant negative effects.

The authors concluded that with the inclusion of studies with larger patient samples, the mean weighted effect size of rTMS directed at the left temporo - parietal area for AVH has decreased, although the effect is still significant.

The effect of rTMS was no longer significant at 1 month of follow - up (mean weighted effect size = 0.40, 95 % CI: -0.23 to 0.102).

Research also shows that there is no significant difference between the effects of an uneven protein distribution over the course of the day (meaning the majority of protein is consumed in one meal) and the effects of a more balanced one — both of them have similar effects on skeletal muscle protein turnover and lean mass retention.

In this case the comparison between sugar and starch is not statistically significant, meaning that it is too small to distinguish from the effect of chance.

While urinary ketone excretion means that body fat is being excreted causing fat loss, the effect is minimal: Based on recent studies, the number of calories lost in the urine as ketones is not significant (100 kcal at most).

Regarding weight loss, carnitine has another significant effect: it's believed that carnitine stimulates the transport of fatty acids into the mitochondrial apparatus of the cell, improving their breaking down for energy means.

Arginine has a statistically significant life - prolonging effect, because better circulation means less risk of cardiovascular disease.

I agree... the weight loss effects may be statistically significant, but they are so small that they don't have any real - world meaning... and there is potential for side effects.

Melatonin is one of the best and most effective ingredients that can be used within a sleep formula, though here it is used in a fairly conservative dosage, which means it may not be strong enough to have a significant effect on those who suffer from chronic sleeplessness or insomnia.

This does not mean that all cases of STDs are linked to social media, but social media has been shown in this study to have a statistically significant effect on the number of STDs after controlling for demographic and economic variables.

Every year digital effects improve upon the «uncanny valley» - meaning that six years between Terminator Salvation (in 2009) and Mockingjay Part 2's expected release (in 2015) is significant and could help calm digital skeptics.

Calculated at the mean, students are 6.2 percentage points less likely to attend college, though the effect is not statistically significant.

However, this effect was not statistically significant, meaning that it could have occurred by chance.

While these are also noted as statistically significant, using the table below one can determine that statistical significance does not necessarily mean that such «very weak» to «weak» correlations are of much practical significance, especially if and when high - stakes decisions about teachers and their effects are to be attached to such evidence.

After two years of enrollment, LSP scholarship users scored 0.18 standard deviations (roughly six months of learning) lower than the control group in English Language Arts (ELA), but this point estimate was not statistically significant, meaning that we can not rule out no effect or a positive effect;

In fact, there were two significant negative effects shown in cognitive skills for the three - year - old cohort, meaning the control group that did not participate in any preschool program had higher cognitive scores.

For both fourth and eighth grades, the variable for computer instruction and teacher preparation is not statistically significant, meaning that the effect of the variable is not statistically significant from zero.

The significant overdrive percentage in the new Ridgeline means that the torque vectoring effect is pronounced and effective even in corners with a radius of as little as 49.2 feet (15 meters).

I buy TLI's argument that adverse - selection means folk who knew they only had a short life - expectancy will not have sold their policies, (hence my analysis is over-pessimistic) but am surprised this effect still persists after 6 + years (no significant turn up in mortality - rates pa towards those appropriate for their age so far).

There was no significant effect of diet on mean WGTT within or between groups (Rolfe et al. 2002b).

Those for whom this great expense is not assumable should know that some medical therapies are available, though they are by no means as reliable as the pacemaker approach and dogs may suffer significant side effects from their use.

everything else i'm interested in (Alan Wake, Infinite Undiscovery, Star Ocean, Tales of Vesperia, Gears of War 2, Mass Effect 2, etc), are all developed, and OWNED by third parties, meaning, depending on how things play out in this next year concerning momentum of the consoles (ie, PS3 has gained SIGNIFICANT momentum, while the 360 is kind of plateauing), those franchises could easily jump to the PS3.

I mean since there is no clear trend (upward or downward) in cosmic ray flux over the period we've been able to measure them directly; and since we do not see a significant difference in climate over the 11 year solar cycle between Solar Max and Solar Min (and this modulation is much larger than the one Svensmark is talking about); and since it is not clear how important the ionization from GCR is in cloud formation; and since the anthropogenic ghg mechanism does just fine reproducing the data, exactly how do you foresee implementing this «effect»?

As a function of the NAO trend through to about 1996 there was a significant cooling pattern over Greenland (look at annual mean trends from 1950 to 1996 for maximum effect), but the longer you average over the less that is seen (though since there is still a positive NAO trend it is still a factor).

Significant amounts of snowfall over the winter of 2010 — 2011 meant more water for Lake Powell, and this effect lasted into the spring of 2012.

First, if significant aerosol concentrations only cover, say, 10 % of the globe, doesn't that mean that to get a 0.5 degree cooling effect for the whole Earth, there must be a 5 degree cooling effect in the affected area.

While most people now understand that the enhanced greenhouse effect means a much warmer planet, communicating regional shifts in weather remains a significant challenge.

From the paper: «The results also 1) reveal a significant level of coupling between ocean and land temperatures that remains even after the effects of ENSO and volcanic eruptions have been removed; 2) serve to highlight the improvements in the quality of the time series of global - mean land temperatures with the increase in the areal coverage of the station network from 1951 onward; and 3) yield a residual time series in which the signature of anthropogenically induced global warming is more prominent.»

So if the atmosphere is not warming, it means the extra GHGs are having no significant effect.

The analysis of the effects of these magnetic disturbances, occurring within the period 2006 — 2009 on ionospheric F2 - layer, showed significant departure of the main peak parameters from the corresponding 27 - days running means.

To explain this, think about the central IPCC projection of a 3.5 degrees increase in global mean temperature, which would imply significant but moderate economic damage (maybe a long - run loss of 5 - 10 per cent of GDP, depending on how you value ecosystem effects).

The most likely candidate for that climatic variable force that comes to mind is solar variability (because I can think of no other force that can change or reverse in a different trend often enough, and quick enough to account for the historical climatic record) and the primary and secondary effects associated with this solar variability which I feel are a significant player in glacial / inter-glacial cycles, counter climatic trends when taken into consideration with these factors which are, land / ocean arrangements, mean land elevation, mean magnetic field strength of the earth (magnetic excursions), the mean state of the climate (average global temperature), the initial state of the earth's climate (how close to interglacial - glacial threshold condition it is) the state of random terrestrial (violent volcanic eruption, or a random atmospheric circulation / oceanic pattern that feeds upon itself possibly) / extra terrestrial events (super-nova in vicinity of earth or a random impact) along with Milankovitch Cycles.

Giaever is either arguing that CO2 is a visible gas (it is not) and the fact that you can't see it means there is too little in the atmosphere to have a significant warming effect, or that only visible gases can warm the planet, or some other similarly misinformed assertion.

The net effect of the remodelling is to create statistically significant warming of 0.7 °C in the ACORN - SAT mean temperature series for Rutherglen: in general agreement with anthropogenic global warming theory.

As the forcing and resulting temperature changes are small, internal variability has a significant effect on simulated changes even when comparing 25 year means, with changes varying in sign over some land areas and most of the ocean.

I do nt see how the effects on these people will have any significant economic impact on rich European or Americans who contribute the most to AGW and who have the means to decarbonize their energy supplies.