positive effect
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpositiveandeffect
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positive
adjective
uk/ˈpɒz.ə.tɪv/us/ˈpɑː.zə.t̬ɪv/
full of hope and confidence, or giving cause for hope ...
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effect
noun
uk/ɪˈfekt/us/əˈfekt/
the result of a ...
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(Definition ofpositiveandeffectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As such, the failure to show a significantpositiveeffectof treatment might have limited clinical significance.
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The study also found apositiveeffecton ability to infer meaning from context, although the findings did not reach statistical significance.
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Therefore, we still expect to find that resources being available to elderly people will have apositiveeffecton the level of giving and receiving.
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Many participants acknowledged thepositiveeffectof activities and social participation on people's outlook, since they provided a purpose-in-life and opportunities to be happy.
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Thus, longer exposure of the villages to the institutional build-up has apositiveeffecton people's participation in the commons.
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The models also confirm a consistently strong andpositiveeffectfor the measure of respondents' level of satisfaction with their household income.
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Thus, a large maintenance burden on the household had apositiveeffecton the likelihood of remarriage.
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It also helps to confirm that the identification training had apositiveeffecton the experimental group's overall production performance.
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The empirical results indicate that democracy has a significant andpositiveeffecton economic growth by inhibiting regime interruption and enhancing system adjustability.
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It is our reading of the literature that the well-documentedpositiveeffectof financial market development on economic growth is not due to reversed causality.
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In most cases, the noise introduced by overambiguity almost overrides thepositiveeffectof semantic clustering.
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That age has a slightlypositiveeffectin the production function might be attributable to the older farmers' longer experience with cotton cultivation.
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In the long run, continuous growth will eventually lead to a high level of development, which has apositiveeffecton democracy.
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Just as we expected, electoral volatility has a strongpositiveeffecton the share of non-partisan cabinet members.
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Among those on low incomes, a high share of income from an earnings-related pension had a significant andpositiveeffectin both countries.
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Thepositiveeffectof states' incentives to deviate on the likelihood of transposition deserves some closer scrutiny.
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With regard to the effects of the end losses, these generally may have apositiveeffect.
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In the longer term, however, fire may have a netpositiveeffecton the radial growth of these species, particularly in denser formations.
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However, wherever the investment committee has the optimum size and is therefore capable of acting effectively, there is apositiveeffecton performance.
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