Sentences with phrase «smaller effects of»

The post is filled with technical details for those looking for a deeper dive into the science, but for the layperson this is probably the most interesting bit: Using a cool gadget that floods a room with a specific color of light, Westland's research group «found a small effect of colored light on heart rate and blood pressure: Red light does seem to raise heart rate, while blue light lowers it.»

In an analysis of obesity and energy supply in the WHO MONICA (Multinational MONItoring of trends and determinants in CArdiovascular disease) Project, which encompassed Western European countries, Australia, the United States, and China, there was a small effect of total fat, but the energy supply from total sweeteners per capita showed no relation with obesity (40).

The data stratified by both social class and Jarman showed that in more deprived areas, there was a strong effect of infant feeding in the lower and higher social classes, whereas in the more affluent areas, there was a much smaller effect of infant feeding, especially in the higher social classes.

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.

If the banks begin to become more conservative, just for survival reasons (i.e., more leverage is permitted, but they don't want to use it), the small effects of regulatory easing will be erased.

(Again, we're ignoring the small effect of fees to illustrate a point.)

''... the warming is only missing if one believes computer models where so - called feedbacks involving water vapor and clouds greatly amplify the small effect of CO2.»

Concern with relatively small effects of possible anthropogenic caused global warming is a misplaced distraction, and will probably lead to the public losing confidence in scientists, and could weaken the support needed when real problems occur.»

They also state that the small effect of solar variability is an assumption of climate models, whereas it is an outcome.

Since the theoretical physics behind GH warming only predict a very small effect of doubling CO2, all sorts of «positive feedbacks» are contrived to make this GH warming appear less insignificant (our recent exchange).

It is also possible that the relatively small effect of maternal feeding behaviors is overwhelmed by cofounders such as television viewing or consumption of calorically dense foods (eg, sweets or French fries), which are, like maternal feeding behaviors, associated with both markers of socioeconomic status (58, 59) and adiposity (58, 60) and an increase in frequency between ages 15 and 36 mo (61, 62).

The small effect of girls» depressed mood, on changes in parental warmth, was further weakened when socio - demographic factors were also included in the model.

There is some low quality evidence to support a small effect of mood stabilizers and other agents.

These findings are consistent with previous correlational studies in similar populations, 20 but the small effect of depressive symptoms on disability is interesting, given previous findings that patients with both depression and pain are more recalcitrant to rehabilitative treatment than those without depression.

Not exact matches

Although you'll likely never please everyone, making small tweaks to the environment of your office can have dramatic effects on productivity.

Before you break into a sweat over the small business requirements in the health - care legislation signed into law last month, take a deep breath: Many of its provisions will take months if not years to go into effect.

And while there are lots of high - income earners who will be affected, it has an unintended side effect that small - business owners (the restaurant owner, the bike shop repairman and the dry cleaning operator), who are considered the backbone of the economy, would likely have to pay higher taxes — and be worse off financially — as well.

We're seeing the effects of a bunch of people who have wildly differing viewpoints crammed into a small room.

The only place the authors observed some benefits of vitamin C supplementation was in marathon runners, skiers, and soldiers on «subarctic exercise» — and even in those small populations, the observed effect was small.

But each of those subgroups is, in effect, its own sample, and those samples can be very small.

That sort of instant effect is a potential threat for Groupon (grpn), LivingSocial, Foursquare, and other relatively new companies that have revolutionized online marketing for small businesses in the last few years.

For example, a small study of 38 patients with Alzheimer's from 2016 looked at the effects of Victoza.

One possible side effect of the Academy's tendency to prefer smaller, more exquisite films over splashy popcorn titles has been on ratings for the Oscars broadcast.

«I think at the end of the day that virtually all of the «trade war» effects will be negotiated away and the true economic impact on industries as well as specific companies will be very small, so I haven't factored the impact of any trade war considerations into my portfolio,» she said.

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

«Most people will have a small number of effective hours to work, and to the extent those hours can overlap with other people's, the net effect will be more impact,» Butterfield says.

Lamar Villere, a portfolio manager at New Orleans - based Villere & Co., said that he has been reducing his exposure of small and mid-cap companies with international revenues and is focusing more on those that dominate their domestic niche in order to offer protection from the effects of tariffs.

As large companies invest and increase spending, small businesses will see a sort of trickle - down effect.

The same may be said about the effects of NAFTA on small businesses.

It's worth noting that because Tesla has on balance built a relatively small number of vehicles — it just crossed a 100,000 annual threshold last year — and because it sells just three cars, its recalls are going to have a disproportionate effect.

So while the heart of this argument and debate revolves around big money properties (team owners and wealthy players), the effect on the nation's economy would be considerably greater and have a massive effect on small business.

«You know, personally, I think the idea that fake news on Facebook — it's a very small amount of the content — influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea,» he told Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick, author of «The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World.»

«We're seeing the astounding effects of the continued shift to online holiday shopping — especially from mobile devices — to the small business community,» said Kristy Campbell, director of marketing at Manta, in the statement.

While the company has long focused on the benefits of its social network like connecting family members and helping small businesses grow, Facebook executives mistakenly overlooked its platform's negative effects, he said.

Thanks to Title III of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which went into effect in mid-May, they can now raise money by soliciting small - time investors who want to purchase shares.

The first - ever CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey in June found that 21 percent of small - business owners expect changes in immigration policy to have a negative effect on their busineSmall Business Survey in June found that 21 percent of small - business owners expect changes in immigration policy to have a negative effect on their businesmall - business owners expect changes in immigration policy to have a negative effect on their businesses.

«The U.S. has obviously been clear about where it stands with the Paris Agreement, but it is heartening that 19 other countries reaffirmed their commitment to the agreement,» said Thoriq Ibrahim, minister of energy and environment for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, a group of countries vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

The small study used 53 Canadian college students as guinea pigs to test the knock - on effects on our psychology of thinking of time and money as interchangeable.

And herein lies a very broad and «mushy middle,» says McKenna, with the effect, in many cases, being the same: «It's still using smaller - than - treatment doses, or sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics,» which creates a literal breeding ground for resistant microbial strains.

These levels of participation had no small effect on the findings, says Kensing.

As the Grace Hopper Celebration approaches, it's a good time for the small group of leaders across the tech industry to pause and evaluate if they are doing enough (and doing it systematically) to effect real change.

For more on the impact of shopping at local small businesses versus national chains, including the effects of «showrooming,» check out the infographic below.

If these measures go into effect, the impact on the economy and small businesses would be modest, says Thomas Hungerford, senior economist and director of tax and budget policy at the Economic Policy Institute.

«Despite the much higher costs of attendance, earnings effects are smaller in the for - profit sector relative to the effects for comparable students in public community colleges — a result that holds for all but one of the top 10 fields of study,» according to the study abstract.

«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.

To test the effect of sharing a meal on the outcome of negotiations, Balachandra put 132 MBA students into small groups and asked them to hammer out a complex joint venture agreement between two companies.

«The effect of Superstorm Sandy was hardest on small companies,» says Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, which collaborated on the ADP report.

Responding to the small concerns of frontline workers sometimes has transformative effects across a company.

So it's important for startups to consider the effects of the federal Credit Card Act of 2009, even though the bill did not apply to small - business credit cards.

It will be some time before anyone knows the effect of these card company practices on small businesses.