potential impact
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpotentialandimpact
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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk/pəˈten.ʃəl/us/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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impact
noun[C usually singular, U]
uk/ˈɪm.pækt/us/ˈɪm.pækt/
the force or action of one object ...
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(Definition ofpotentialandimpactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In this way, the envisagedpotentialimpactof the redistribution is determined and then applied to the national picture.
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Theirpotentialimpactcould have been explored.
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Empirical investigations are needed to understand thepotentialimpactof environmental adversity on the quality of children's representations of self and others.
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Others consider, for the same period, thepotentialimpactof mountain building on the climate.
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Those identified as havingpotentialimpactundergo rapid assessment, and brief reports are prepared.
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Several studies have investigated thepotentialimpactof inclusion of gray literature in systematic reviews.
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Measures ofpotentialimpactreflect the expected effect of changing the distribution of one or more risk factors in a particular population.
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It is perhaps also relevant, at this time of change, to discuss thepotentialimpactwhich role development may have on our professional profile.
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Thepotentialimpactis also suggested by other indicators, for example, from a study on treatment of back pain (26).
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Over the past 20 years much research has focused on this species because of itspotentialimpactin salmonid aquaculture and on wild populations.
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This means that we have not considered thepotentialimpacton bleeding rates of extending prophylaxis beyond the duration of hospitalization.
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These data will provide information required to assess thepotentialimpactof grazing adult beef cattle on the transmission of waterborne pathogens.
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The causal chain proposed here goes directly from coverage to policy, but it does so because of thepotentialimpactpublic opinion could have.
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The assessment ofpotentialimpactis the first step in initiating a quality improvement process.
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This result is expected to be quite significant to help convince paying parties of thepotentialimpactof robotic assistive devices.
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This paper considers thepotentialimpactof those two strategies on land use.
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These studies are expensive, but funding bodies and clinicians alike must consider thepotentialimpactthey will make to an enormous number of people.
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Thepotentialimpacton humans and animals has also been a driver for legislative limits being imposed on a number of food raw materials worldwide.
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