Sentences with phrase «small effect on»

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.

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?

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.

Lateral eddy mixing of tracers such as potential temperature and salinity is mainly directed along isopycnals, and has a small effect on the dynamics but is important for water mass properties.

While CO2 probably has a small effect on temperature, the planet is not responding as predicted by the always - inacurate computer climate models.

Weaver argues that the climate effects of oil sands development will have only a small effect on global temperatures and that the potential of coal and gas consumption to contribute to serious climate change is much greater.

Clouds are not a forcing of the climate system (except for the small portion related to human related aerosol effects, which have a small effect on clouds).

Removing fossil fuel subsidies would have only a small effect on CO2 emissions and renewable energy use, new research has shown.

These stratospheric changes may have a small effect on surface climate over the 11 year cycle.

Average Joe Public can only have a very small effect on the total amount because we use so very little of the energy ourselves.

Altering the heat transfer between the earth» surface and atmosphere = > Only a small effect on surface temperatures.

It would have a small effect on electricity from a grid that is mostly nuclear and renewables (like France) but have a large effect on electricity from a grid like Australia's that is generated by 70 % coal and 20 % natural gas.

A 1 - 2 °C temperature rise that has only a small effect on daytime maximums is a benefit and not a problem.

Sensitivity analysis indicates that uncertainty about the measure of surface temperature, anthropogenic sulfur emissions, or its conversion to radiative forcing has a small effect on the model's simulated forecast for global surface temperature (SI Appendix: Section 2.4 and Figs S3, S4).

Changes in solar radiation, known as solar forcing, have had only a very small effect on climate change, a member of the UN's top panel of climate scientists said today.

A more detailed model of the dynamics of the changes might have a small effect on the outcome, but not at a level that would make any difference in comparison with the other uncertainties of the calculation.

He has stated that additional CO2 should have a small effect on temperatures but I have not heard of him endorsing the illogical idea of «back radiation» (to which I believe you refer) as a warming process in the atmosphere.

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.

Model studies show that land - use changes have a small effect on annual runoff as compared to climate change in the Rhine basin (Pfister et al., 2004), south - east Michigan (Barlage et al., 2002), Pennsylvania (Chang, 2003), and central Ethiopia (Legesse et al., 2003).

I'm willing to accept humanity has had some small effect on climate, though I've never been an AGW «believer».

A small effect on average MSL is not «amplified» at all by storm surges.

Taking into account the possibility of longer oscillations has a small effect on the posterior of likelihood of various values of climate sensitivity.

@PP: Jupiter has a small effect on the Earth orbit as it makes the eccentricity vary a little, but the orbit of the Earth remains nearly elliptical relative to the Sun.

PHYS.org: Changes in solar radiation, known as solar forcing, have had only a very small effect on climate change, a member of the UN's top panel of climate scientists said today.

But from reading all these papers, it striking how large the disconnect is between how much you hear about «arctic amplification» and how small the effect on the global temperature appears to be.

Thus the addition in Ca + + concentration has only a small effect on the ensuing equilibrium.

Of course they fail to mention this was a time of regional warming which had only a small effect on global climate and that when global climate is considered, indeed it is anaomalously warmer now than at any time in the last thousand years.

The fact of the matter is that CH4 releases are still small and have a small effect on warming.

You are confusing the 11 years sunspot (solar irradiance) cycle which does indeed have very small effect on temperature, with longer term sunspot (solar irradiance) cycles than can effect temperatures over periods more like 50 years and up to approx. 0.5 degrees maximum.

For the CMIP5 simulations, there were no volcanic eruptions in the future forcing, yet some small eruptions had a small effect on the actual observations.

I would expect this to be a very small effect on Earth though as the troposphere is simply much more massive and optically relevant than the stratosphere.

Best of all, split - screen has only a small effect on the game's thirty frame - per - second delivery, with sweeps of the isometric camera imparting a hint of slowdown.

These are razor sharp and while they are too small to even have a small effect on humans, they are deadly to pests.

Turmeric might have had a small effect on arthritis, but not enough for it to be significantly noted.

The defect has only a small effect on the dog's vision.

These changes have a small effect on the transparency of the lens.

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).

This will appear on your report and may have a small effect on your score.

The one slight downside is that the case does cover over the rear, external Kindle Touch speakers which has a small effect on the clarity and strength of the sound coming through when you play audio or music.

Indeed, a recent study conducted by Kaili Rimfeld of King's College London and her colleagues found that grit had only a small effect on how well 16 - year - old twins performed on standardized tests given in England and Wales.

While VAM tries but fails to isolate a teacher's small effect on student test scores, SGP does not even attempt to measure a teacher's effect.

Participation in the FTC program had only a small effect on students» likelihood of earning a college degree.

Rizzo and Ehrenberg do not delve further into this finding, leaving readers to speculate why changes in appropriations have such a small effect on tuition.

Despite the different time period and focus on state - level data, Kim and Ko also find that changes in appropriations have a very small effect on tuition at public universities.

The fairly small effect on overall completion conceals much larger effects on where NHRP - eligible students earn their degrees.

The Chicago trial provided evidence that the program affected perceptions of school and academic climate and had a small effect on academic achievement over the period covered by the study.

Desegregation programs in some cities prompted «white flight,» although over the long run it appears to have had only a small effect on housing patterns in most communities.

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.

B - vitamins do have a small effect on acne BUT they are very hyped up in some quarters.