Sentences with phrase «small effect»

One conclusion is that grouping programs usually have only small effects on student self - esteem.

While some studies indicate that breastfeeding has only a very small effect on childhood obesity, the effect seems to be fairly persistent.

The investigated gene variants are present in around 1/3 of the population, so they are common variants with small effect size.

Pulse feeding had a very small effect in these young subjects.

Soft forks typically have a much smaller effect on the network, because users with older versions can still operate as is.

Because of the high consumption of coffee, even small effects on cancer occurrence in persons could have a large impact on public health.

The pattern clearly indicates that homework has smaller effects at lower grade levels.

As small effect size differences were found, further studies are needed to investigate the long - term impact of early unhealthy diet.

Indeed, we only had adequate statistical power to detect medium and large effects, and were under - powered to detect small effects.

It's a fairly small effect but it's still good for long - term growth.

Here we see a very small effect when the mice are fed starch (blue bar versus pink bar).

Conversely, demographic factors such as gender and age had comparatively small effects on the perception of the dress image.

Is that so small an effect that it can not justify continuation of testing and accountability?

Small effects early in the film are quite effective in setting the mood.

I still maintain that a lot of the current medical literature is about pretty small effects that are difficult to document and have little bearing on evidence based medical practice.

«When breeders make crosses between diverse varieties, they produce new combinations of genes with small effects,» he explains.

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

This type of warming is still a much smaller effect than the global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

And it has an even smaller effect on the results for college enrollment, reducing the estimated effect of charter school attendance by only about 10 percent in both locations.

This allows you to track data from the bracelet with your smartphone with minimal energy expenditure — having as small an effect on your battery as possible, that is.

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

She and her colleagues found themselves surprised how small an effect the norms had on a person's BMI.

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

For children from nonpoor families, we find smaller effects of increased school spending on subsequent educational attainment and family income in adulthood.

While we find only small effects for children from nonpoor families, for low - income children, a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending each year for all 12 years of public school is associated with roughly 0.5 additional years of completed education, 9.6 percent higher wages, and a 6.1 - percentage - point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty.

Prevention programs have addressed targets with some success; however, meta - analyses find small effects among older youths.

Menne et al performed an analysis on US surface temperature records and found only very small effects due to poor siting of temperature stations.

According to our analysis, a US fiscal shock of this magnitude would probably have only small effects here in Canada, boosting GDP by about 0.1 per cent by 2018.

However, assuming that NCLB began in the 2003 — 04 school year yields smaller effects (a statistically significant 0.09 standard deviations in 4th - grade math and a smaller and statistically insignificant effect in 8th - grade math).

That could help explain the slightly smaller effect of paternal age in the modern Swedish population: Babies born prematurely or with birth defects are now more likely to live.

They noted that a moderate increase in dairy does not have (6), or has a really small effect on weight gain (12)-- in studies where weight gain was observed, the average was a 0.6 kg increase.

«But what's interesting is that we find that the substitutions that have small effects change over time.»

Take the example of antiretroviral drugs, where you got small effects with studies of individual drugs compared to two drug therapies that you really could not have detected without the right kind of study and right kind of statistics.

In Silent Hill, we used the fog, darkness, and so on, and in Silent Hill 2 we use it as well, but the PS2's power lets us tweak the graphics with many small effects.