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Overall, there was a significant time effect (P < 0.05) but no significant difference in plasma cortisol between the control, lemon spray and electronic collar groups (P > 0.05).

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Senators also spent a significant amount of time reading letters from constituents about the effects of the scandal on their own lives, which not only looks bad for Stumpf and Wells Fargo, but also allows the politicians an easy opportunity to prove that they are working for the people who elect them.

«We've already seen a very significant amount of the euro's appreciation take effect on earnings so at this point in time what matters most is just how much more hawkish people become on the ECB,» he added.

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There is also the gravitational field effect on light, causing a redshift, and this could be significant considering light travels for millions and even billions of years through space which is not devoid of a gravitational field during that time 3.

At the same time, the research indicates that television can have a significant effect on those who are politically undecided by helping them define issues and identify personalities.

Having struggled lately with early morning thoughts such as...» What should I eat for breakfast» this time - saving solution had a significant positive effect on how to simply kick - start my day.

Individual growth curve models were developed for multilevel analysis and specifically designed for exploring longitudinal data on individual changes over time.23 Using this approach, we applied the MIXED procedure in SAS (SAS Institute) to account for the random effects of repeated measurements.24 To specify the correct model for our individual growth curves, we compared a series of MIXED models by evaluating the difference in deviance between nested models.23 Both fixed quadratic and cubic MIXED models fit our data well, but we selected the fixed quadratic MIXED model because the addition of a cubic time term was not statistically significant based on a log - likelihood ratio test.

Fever over 100.4 º F (38º C) during labor is five times more likely overall for women using an epidural; 44 this rise in temperature is more common in women having their first babies, and more marked with prolonged exposure to epidurals.45 For example, in one study, 7 percent of first - time mothers laboring with an epidural were feverish after six hours, increasing to 36 percent after 18 hours.46 Maternal fever can have a significant effect on the baby (see below).

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

In fact, even in cases where there has been prolonged difficulties or separation, interdisciplinary professional mental health support will take time but it will have a much more significant long term beneficial effect for the infant - parent / caregiver relationship than biased and pseudoscientific therapies.

At a time when schools budgets are being cut in real terms across the country, this sudden loss of money will have a significant effect.

Neil Harrison at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School at the University of Sussex, UK, says that finding pupil mimicry for the first time in chimps is extremely significant, especially the accentuated effect observed in the three chimp mothers, as this suggests they are more sensitive empathetically.

Lead author Professor Debra Skene from the University of Surrey, said: «Our results show that if we want to develop a diagnostic test for a disease, it is imperative to take the time of day when taking blood samples into account, since this has a significant effect on metabolism.

In contrast, doing math at bedtime had a significant effect: Children who used the app two or more times per week outpaced peers whose family rarely used it.

The human species is essentially homogeneous from a genetic perspective, however, the various groups have some subtle but significant differences at statistical and scientific level that have developed over time due to the effect of geographical, demographic and cultural factors» says Valentina Coia.

Professor Baldwin added: «Natural large pressure fluctuations in the polar stratosphere tend to last a long time — at least a month, and we see this reflected as surface pressure changes that look very much like the North Atlantic Oscillation — which has significant effects on weather and extreme events across Europe.»

«While laboratory studies of the effect of temperature on the physiology and behavior have provided significant insights into thermal ecology of ectotherms, the time is ripe to take this knowledge outside the lab to further develop climate change models,» he said.

Over time, this has a significant effect on the composition of the local neighbourhood and makes the area less affordable for poorer families.

The researchers found that timing — specifically, the phase of the cell division cycle that bacteria were in when exposed to the antibiotic — had a significant effect on susceptibility.

However, because the a4 * receptor subunit is important for learning, memory, appetite, and biological clock timing, treatments that narrowly target a4 * receptors could cause significant side effects, says Daniel McGehee, a neurobiologist at the University of Chicago.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have found that thirdhand - smoke (THS) exposure has a significant effect on health as early as one month after initiation of exposure — an effect that worsens with time.

«We found a positive time - dependent significant correlation with increased time of THS exposure and the effects it had on all the variables we measured,» Martins - Green said.

Cohen continued: «This is because the global ecosystem in 2030 might still be in a transient, headed for much significant effects after time lags perhaps of the order of decades.»

In 1996, when climate research was more certain about the link between fossil fuel combustion and climate change than during the time of Shaw's memo, Exxon's new chairman and chief executive Lee Raymond said in a speech in Detroit: «Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.»

None of these differences, however, were statistically significant, and the proportions of children with 4-fold or higher rises in antibody levels was similarly high in all age groups and at all post-immunization time points (data not shown), supporting the conclusion that there was no dose effect.

Finally, any stem cells implanted into a patient with glaucoma must remain stable for a significant period of time and not cause any serious side effects.

However, even the more ponderous mixing in the lower stratosphere is pretty efficient in comparison to the time it takes to remove CO2 at the surface, so I doubt that the altitude of the source is a very significant effect for CO2.

15d - PGJ2 induced significant G2 / M arrest, and exerted time - and dose - dependent cytotoxic effects against all OS cell lines.

An hour may not seem like a lot, but the time shift can have significant effects on the body, says Sandhya Kumar, MD, assistant professor of neurology and medical director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina.

However, this study also produced different results since it didn't notice any significant reduction of strength between consuming creatine before and after exercising, which indicates that timing creatine doses only has an influence on muscle hypertrophy while taking creatine before and after exercising has the same effect on increasing strength.

Skeptics might counter that this could be largely the placebo affect, but in the absence of any adverse effects and considering that placebo works a significant percentage of the time, I'd still consider it worth a try.

And sugar also has effects in suppressing the immune system, where they looked at vitamin C absorption or vitamin C activation over time period and you can see that you have significant immune decrease when you're consuming refined sugar especially excess amounts refined sugar.

Generally, if krill oil is used for shorter period of time, i.e., a few months or less, it does not have significant side effects, but consistent use for a longer period may lead to the following side effects:

At the very least, EO is not an efficient use of time and it doesn't account for the significant physiological effects that «non S&C» training like rugby practices and matches can exert.

Nor did EGCG have any statistically significant effect in tests that Pence used to determine the amount of strength the mice could develop with their claws or the length of time they were able to run in a treadmill.

Effect of treatment, P < 0.0001; effect of time × treatment interaction, P < 0.0001 (both: repeated - measures ANOVA); all of the points differed significantly (P < 0.001) between treatments starting from the 6th hour (Tukey's honestly significant differences post hoc Effect of treatment, P < 0.0001; effect of time × treatment interaction, P < 0.0001 (both: repeated - measures ANOVA); all of the points differed significantly (P < 0.001) between treatments starting from the 6th hour (Tukey's honestly significant differences post hoc effect of time × treatment interaction, P < 0.0001 (both: repeated - measures ANOVA); all of the points differed significantly (P < 0.001) between treatments starting from the 6th hour (Tukey's honestly significant differences post hoc test).

A Cochrane review of 121 randomized controlled trials of PRT in older people showed that doing PRT 2 — 3 times / wk improved physical function, gait speed, timed get - up - and - go, climbing stairs, and balance, and, more importantly, had a significant effect on muscle strength, especially in the high - intensity training groups (38).

This explains why regular coffee drinkers build up a tolerance over time — because you have more adenosine receptors, it takes more caffeine to block a significant proportion of them and achieve the desired effect.

An extract made from dried powdered leaves was shown to have a very potent depressive effect on the central nervous system, resulting in significant muscle relaxation, decreased body temperatures and increased sleep time among laboratory mice.

Not only does forest bathing enhance NK cell activity, but it also increases their number, and for a significant length of time: the positive effects lasted for more than a week after the forest excursion.

Time and time again relatively small amounts of Magnesium have shown significant effects in reducing depression and exaggerated stress respoTime and time again relatively small amounts of Magnesium have shown significant effects in reducing depression and exaggerated stress respotime again relatively small amounts of Magnesium have shown significant effects in reducing depression and exaggerated stress response.

This time, stretching had no significant effect on the distance covered in the time trial: stretchers covered 6.1 + / - 1.3 km, non-stretchers covered 6.3 + / - 1.1 km.

Think about that the next time you assume 30 minutes on the treadmill is going to have some super significant calorie burning effect.

Therefore, it is important to appreciate that the many ultra-low carbohydrate diets that are now in vogue for so many in the nutritional community, while they may be beneficial for those individuals who have, for years, ingested a diet high in poor quality carbohydrates, can have an adverse effect on the gut when they are employed in excess for a significant period of time.

When considering only those subjects compliant with the eccentric strengthening, the reviewers found an overall significant reduction in hamstring injury risk (risk ratio of 0.35 times) and this effect had little heterogeneity.

A mixed - effect ANOVA revealed that there were no significant increases in hip extension angle between the control group and intervention group immediately or across time for all 6 lunges (f < 1, p > 0.05).

However, noting the significant gain in hip extension in the intervention group from prelunge to postlunge in the second session and comparing them to the results reported by Macdonald et al. (6) of immediate gains in knee flexion angle post foam rolling, it is reasonable to conclude that the effects of foam rolling are immediate, even in a dynamic movement, but do not remain for longer bouts of time.

The main effect of time was also not significant for body weight, F (1, 22) = 0.71, p = 0.41, and for BMI, F (1, 22) = 0.43, p = 0.52 (Table 3).