Sentences with phrase «small effect when»

This problem has a small effect when comparing teachers in one state to teachers in another.

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

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One major thought to consider when choosing between credit and debit is the effect it has on your local small businesses.

Over the years, I have seen the positive effects of EQ when working alongside leaders in companies large and small.

«Time will tell,» though if the code has an effect on the upfront prices of handsets, as consumers may get smaller subsidies when signing onto two - year instead of three - year contracts, he added.

When trying to lose 30 pounds in 2011, I found myself thinking at length about the cookies, cake, and ice cream I was passing up, trying to rationalize whether I could have a small piece, what the effect might be, and whether I even wanted to lose weight.

But we don't count those foreign jobs when we calculate productivity (and the deduction to GDP on account of imports is generally smaller than the corresponding loss of U.S. employment), so foreign outsourcing has the effect of boosting measured productivity.

When small inefficiencies can have ripple effects across the entire sales unit, you have to exploit every available opportunity to stamp them out.

When, during the course of his reading what he came to say, applause and cheers broke out, he would hesitantly look up from his text with a small smile of pleased surprise and say, in effect, «That's very nice but now let us return to the subject at hand.»

Small per person changes can have enormous effects when multiplied by enormous numbers of people.

Small increases per person can have an enormous effect when multiplied by huge numbers of people, as for example in China and India, if, as they propose, they increase their use of fossil fuels in the near future.

Suppliers also face some tough questioning amid evidence that they charge higher prices to smaller retailers to compensate for lower prices when dealing with supermarkets - known as «the waterbed» effect.

Founders effect is when the establishment of a new population is founded by a few original individuals that carry only a small fraction of the total genetic variation of the parental population.

Results: Daily ingestion of wheat - based starch hydrolysates, glucose syrups and maltodextrins, had no deleterious effect on small - bowel mucosal villous architecture or inflammation in coeliac disease patients when compared to the placebo group.

Hi, my (now 14 mo) son also had a period when he was much smaller when would only sleep for 45 mins in the daytime when previously he'd napped well... It obviously may not work, but what I did and it might be worth a try was that because he always managed to pass this 45 minute mark if we were walking, I took him for an hour long walk about 3 days in a row was all it took, and then he seemed to learn to get past that 45 minutes and could then do it in his cot... Maybe if that helps during the day it might have a knock on effect at nightime too... Obviously you don't want to get to a stage where he'll only fall asleep in the pushchair but maybe one nap a day try it and another nap let him go in his cot... Or whatever fits with you, but this was something I found to work for us

In 2001, Belsky suggested that, «as more and more children were spending more and more time in non-maternal care arrangements, at younger and younger ages, even small effects, when experienced by many children, might have broad - scale implications for how classrooms, communities and even societies operate.»

However, when the assessments were done blinded, only 2 treatments showed small, but significant effects.

Our data agrees with that of others, 1223 that suggest that delaying the introduction of formula milk protects against the morbidity associated with respiratory infection, illness, and associated hospitalisations in the first year of life.24 Prolonged breast feeding was only marginally associated with less respiratory illness when examined in a New Zealand birth cohort to 2 years of age, 25 and the Dundee study8 showed a small, yet significant protective effect of breast feeding against respiratory illness at 0 — 13 weeks and 40 — 52 weeks after adjustment for social class, maternal age, and parental smoking.

When he announced the endorsement, the union's president, Bruce Both, said Meng had «pledged her support for our Union's effort to hold Walmart accountable for reckless corporate policies that effect the worker families, small business owners, and women that live in the 6th Congressional,» adding: «Our Union believes that Grace will help unify an ethnically diverse community around the most pressing issue facing our Unions membership: keeping New York City Walmart free.»

[BTW, I said «jobs» in the headline b / c of both poetic license and the ripple effect of unemployment benefit cuts — small, local businesses suffer when people can't afford groceries.

(A recent study there is a small penalty effect for a minority ethnic candidate when first standing, which disappears when seeking re-election).

The country's largest retailer made good on its promise to boycott the «When Walmart Comes to Town: The Effect on Small Businesses and Communities» hearing, called in response to ramped - up efforts by the retail giant to open a store in New York.

The hearing, «When Wal - Mart Comes to Town: The Effect on Small Businesses and Communities: A Historical and Prospective View,» to take place Wednesday, was scheduled amid buzz of a Walmart opening within the five boroughs, possibly in Manhattan.

The event, titled «When Wal - Mart Comes to Town: The Effect on Small Businesses and Communities: A Historical and Prospective View,» is a joint hearing by the Committee on Small Business and committees on community and economic development.

«When it comes to effecting real change, we have to remember that who's President is only a small piece of that puzzle,» Moore said.

If the leaders remain as they are now at the next election (which YouGov ask as a control question) people's voting intentions would be CON 34, LAB 41, LDEM 9 (when asked this way it consistently shows a slightly smaller Labour lead than usual — probably the effect of mentioning Ed Miliband in the question).

When the state's prison population was fairly small, the practice did not have much of an effect on legislative districts, but as the number of incarcerated people grew, so did the impact.

Such a theory would be crucial for explaining the first moments of the big bang, when the universe was dense, hot and small, or what happens near the singularity at the cores of black holes, where the effects of quantum physics may compete with those of general relativity.

And when you have a smaller effect, you are much more likely to pass [it] along from generation to generation.»

«When scientists set out to look for the causes of the Allee effect in the past, they have tended to focus on intrinsic parameters, such as the difficulty finding a mate, inbreeding or social dysfunction in small populations,» explains Elliott.

«When small molecules are administered, they can stick to many different proteins in the body because their size enables them to interact with many targets, not just the intended target, causing more side effects.»

In visual perception - speak, the «Pong effect» is when the ball appears faster when the paddle is smaller, even though the speed remains unchanged.

Studies in the 1960s and 1970s showed that rats and humans who can't predict a negative effect (such as a small shock) end up more frazzled than those who can predict when a zap is coming.

But Pendry realized that when light hits a small object, the impacting radiation triggers a subtle effect that manifests itself as a pattern of local waves.

When it came to pain reduction, the researchers found a large treatment benefit; for fatigue, a small - to - moderate treatment effect was found.

Now a team reports in Nature that the mood - lifting effect may not be caused by the drug itself, but by one of the products formed when the body breaks the drug down into smaller molecules.

By the way, this effect is most prevalent when the particles that do the scattering are smaller than the wavelength of light, as is the case for the nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere.

When Cox and colleagues infused oxytocin specifically into the nucleus accumbens, a small brain region implicated in drug addiction, they found that it had the same effects as when they administered it systemicaWhen Cox and colleagues infused oxytocin specifically into the nucleus accumbens, a small brain region implicated in drug addiction, they found that it had the same effects as when they administered it systemicawhen they administered it systemically.

Sometimes small changes in landscape irrigation practices, such as calibrating your sprinklers to apply the recommended amount, may seem like they would have minimal effect, but consumers can see reductions in their water use, especially when they consider the cumulative effect of small changes over time.»

If the outbreaks are just the result of environmental changes, perhaps Zika was always capable of causing serious effects, but they were rare in small populations and only became obvious when the virus hit a lot of people.

This psychological effect, known as social modelling, leads people to eat less than they normally would if alone when their companion consumes a small amount of food.

Scientists at the University of York have discovered that very small chemical changes to dietary flavonoids cause very large effects when the plant natural products are tested for their impact on the human immune system.

Small particles in the air enhance the scattering effect, which is why on hazy days or when there is air pollution, the sunsets appear even redder.

And, although the same effect could be had by adding the rusted red iron mineral hematite, which is a poor conductor, the resulting microbial growth was much smaller and slower (and nonexistent when nonconductive aluminum minerals were tried).

However, plant leaves and biofilms both vary in this respect: when the lotus effect is present, small air bubbles are trapped between the water droplet and the surface of the leaf, whereas this does not occur in the rose petal effect.

The amount of DNA needed to tag drugs is so small, Hayward says, that it would have no effect on a person when ingested.

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.

«Particles of any kind, even much smaller than the wavelength of visible light, will, as a rule, make the sky brighter but at the expense of its purity of color,» Bohren says, noting that the effect is more pronounced when there is a high concentration of large aerosols.

As the authors note, group dynamics have been shown to have a preventative effect on sick leave in small offices, and can even lead to «presenteeism»: employees coming to work when they're actually ill.

Generally, localization has practically no effect when random features of a sample are much smaller than the wavelength.