Sentences with phrase «smaller scale effects»

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EBay's inflammatory research paper with its uninflammatory title («Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment»), put it this way: «The non-brand keyword experiments show that SEM had a very small and statistically insignificant effect on sales.»

These healthcare brands will have the effect of soothing out the inevitable fluctuations that occur on the pharmaceutical side, though right now, Glaxo's portfolio is boasting robust growth from small - scale HIV drugs Triumeq and Trivicay (which, as the CEO noted in the last annual report, sport year - over-year sales growth of 41 % and 43 %, respectively).

Spillover effects on other countries, as reflected in bond yields, were more limited than in previous episodes of turmoil, reflecting the relatively small scale of Cyprus's problem, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in Washington.

A Randomized Double - Blind Study of the Effect of Distant Healing in a Population With Advanced AIDS Report of a Small Scale Study FRED SICHER, MA; ELISABETH TARG, MD; DAN MOORE 11, PhD; and HELENE S. SMITH, PhD; San Francisco, California The Western journal of medicine.

Grow More Food Festival, which offers many entertainment options for Guyanese residents, encourages all sizes of businesses within the agriculture industry to grow more food, and engages families to plant kitchen gardens and other small - scale gardens to help offset the effects of higher food prices.

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.»

As our study has a power of 80 % (α = 0.05) to detect a difference of at least 5.7 points for the Bayley PDI and 2.6 points for the Peabody motor scales, we can not exclude a small positive effect of breast feeding on motor development.

The small - scale exploratory study is the first to examine the effects of the policy on children and their education.

Notwithstanding the perceived negative effects of small scale mining, it offers substantial incomes, ancillary jobs and livelihoods to many across these five regions.

However, this Keynesian effect of economic stimulation only works on a large scale; within smaller economic units, economic stimulation may not work because money can more easily flow out of the system.

Fishing up to that 12 mile limit is small scale - fisherman catching crab and lobsters in bay areas, that type of thing.There might arguably be some marginal effect off the south coast of England because it's so close to France.

However, the secretary of state for transport Douglas Alexander insisted this week the government had no plans for a nation wide road pricing scheme until it had observed the effect of local small - scale schemes.

There have been complaints about the adverse effects of small - scale illegal mining on water bodies and the environment in general.

That's a big problem as devices get ever smaller: at the nano - scale, weird quantum effects mean it becomes hard to predict where molecules will shed heat.

The effects of gravity leaking into such dimensions would be visible only over long distances — explaining why gravity on smaller scales, such as the size of the solar system, behaves as if there are three spatial dimensions.

Instead, the highest resolution imaging yet reveals smaller - scale processes at work that have more powerful effects.

Now, one of the first randomized, controlled tests of a large - scale economic aid program has shown small but encouraging effects for people living on less than $ 1.25 per day.

«Even small changes within an ecosystem can have detrimental effects: Interactions between small organisms are «keystone» interactions that scale up to shape whole ecosystems.»

Although this is small - scale study, explained Dr Scott, it provides hope for developing treatments in the future that may help treat the long - term effects of head injuries.

To make up for those shortcomings, the report called for a research program, including smaller scale field trials, whose goal «should be to improve understanding of the range of climate and other environmental effects of albedo modification, as well as understanding of unintended impacts.»

(Less massive bodies also cause frame dragging on a smaller scale; NASA's Gravity Probe B launched in 2004 to measure the frame - dragging effects of Earth's rotation with sensitive gyroscopes.)

Musser: Right and even our best microscope or, in a sense, microscope, is the Large Hadron Collider — the one being built or one about to start up, really, now in Switzerland — and it can penetrate to, I think it is 10 - 19 to -20 meters; in effect it's a microscope down to those distances; and the plank scale, the scale at which strings seem to operate these other types of entities is another 1015 times smaller; it is 10 - 35 meters.

Various theories exist and they predict some curious effects on extremely small length scales, which may throw new light on the nature of the universe.

«The effects seem too small to explain the large - scale asymmetry,» says Frank Close, a particle physicist at the University of Oxford.

To investigate the effects of cattle antibiotics on this smaller scale, Tobin Hammer of the University...

However, evidence from both small - scale, intensive interventions and Head Start suggest that despite this convergence on test scores, there are long - term effects on important societal outcomes such as years of education completed, earnings, and reduced crime and teen pregnancy.

data are notoriously noisy, and the purported effect looks remarkably like an instrumental glitch: it appears only in one small area of the sky and on an angular scale close to the limit of the satellite's resolution.»

v «[The] data are notoriously noisy, and the purported effect looks remarkably like an instrumental glitch: it appears only in one small area of the sky and on an angular scale close to the limit of the satellite's resolution.»

This is the deepest large mm - wave dataset in existence and has already led to many groundbreaking science results, including the first galaxy clusters detected through their Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect signature, the most sensitive measurement yet of the small - scale CMB power spectrum, and the discovery of a population of ultra-bright, high - redshift, star - forming galaxies.

While quantum mechanics primarily applies to the smaller atomic regimes of matter and energy, some systems exhibit quantum mechanical effects on a large scale.

«By improving how we simulate the biological pump in the ocean, we both improve the model and reveal this unexpected resilience, whereby global - scale changes to the physical properties of the ocean have a smaller effect on the biological pump.

Sensitive detectors can tell if the length of the arms of a LIGO detector varies by as little as 1/10, 000 the width of a proton, representing the incredibly small scale of the effects imparted by passing gravitational waves.

But while it's clear that the sea surface rises in the main El Niño regions of the tropics, the effects further afield and on smaller scales have been harder to tease out, particularly along coastlines.

But as computing power increases, we'll be able to explicitly capture a lot of the small - scale effects that are very important to regional climate.

With GABAB you'll still feel these same effects, just on a slightly smaller scale, but modulators of this receptor are important in helping to relieve depression.

While there has yet to be large - scale studies on the effect of kombucha while pregnant or breastfeeding, the drink actually contains small amounts of alcohol since it's fermented — something I was unaware of as a consumer.

This small study revealed that based on a menopause - rating scale, fennel consumption twice a day as a phytoestrogen improved symptoms of menopause in comparison to a minimal effect of placebo.

From our small scale trial of this (7 people), there does seem to be an effect.

A small - scale human trial published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that when healthy men ingested a daily helping of 25 grams of gum acacia, the only effects experienced were a slight reduction in cholesterol serum and an increase in breath hydrogen, which is a marker of intestinal bacteria metabolism.

Now, exercise alone may have a small effect, and that small effect can make a big difference on a population scale.

Although these relatively small - scale intervention trials using viscous Functional Fibers have reported substantial cholesterol - lowering effects and therefore should be protective against CHD, no protective effect against CHD was seen in a large - scale clinical trial with individuals who had a previous myocardial infarction (Burr et al., 1989).

This floral bedding mixes large - scale blooms and a smaller print for a collage effect that feels modern and fun.

Also nice: getting the same effect with a top and skirt that have small - scale geometric patterns.

A decent, well - made, small - scale genre film with a great cast of on - the - cusp players, The Lazarus Effect begins as a modern - day spin on Frankensteinian mad science, but segues into more demonic matters.

Bluebird Reminiscent of «The Sweet Hereafter,» but told on a much more intimate scale, writer - director Lance Edmonds» first feature observes the effects of a tragedy on the residents of a small, blue - collar town.

«Big Effects, Small Scale» it is a brief look at the film's effects, I would have loved for this to be a lot longer since the effects are critical in this film.

Replacing Sanders behind the camera, is visual effects standout Cedric Nicolas - Troyan (also a first - time helmer), who makes an interestingly dark and FX laden product complete with small scale battles, bizarre animals, fairies, animated plants and other exotic creatures.

Although there were some small - scale random - assignment experiments of the effects of desegregation on test scores, most of what we know today concerns the relationship between a school outcome such as achievement on the one hand, and racial composition on the other.

Teach First will not be effected by the new recruitment rules and will be managed separately, as will early years initial teacher training courses and small - scale programmes such as Troops to Teachers.

The EEF will now discuss with the Switch - on team options for developing and testing an alternative model for scaling the intervention that can be delivered in many schools, but with the same positive effects of the smaller trial.