Collocations witheffect

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additive effect
An additive effect is when predation by two predators is equal to the sum of prey removed by each individual predator alone.
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adverse effect
Finally, when low-starch concentrates were fed to yearlings, even to the extent of reducing growth, no adverse effect on bone mineral deposition was observed31.
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anti-inflammatory effect
Furthermore, treatment with gamma globulin significantly reduced the incidence of fever and laboratory indicators of the acute-phase response, suggesting a rapid, generalized anti-inflammatory effect.
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beneficial effect
Decreasing stress should have a beneficial effect, especially at later stages of life when the hippocampus may be more vulnerable.
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calming effect
The steady, clear but quiet explanation given by both the doctor and the nurse had a calming effect on her.
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catastrophic effect
Such egalitarian, non-assimilationist contacts seem to have helped the population maintain languages, thus indirectly highlighting the catastrophic effect of colonization (as domination of one population by another) on linguistic diversity.
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causal effect
In a probabilistic approach, a factor may be a random variable and an influence may be a causal effect on another factor.
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ceiling effect
On the first statement, opinions changed insignificantly, perhaps due to a ceiling effect (opinion in 1987 was already about as positive as it could be).
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chilling effect
His straightforward presentation of the manipulation of the 1993 and 1997 elections leaves little doubt about the chilling effect of regime policy on democratic choice.
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cohort effect
This can, subsequently, reduce the amplitude of the cohort effect when analysed by the above method.
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combined effect
The combined effect will be relatively higher real wages and profits in the sheltered sectors, and a fall in international competitiveness.
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confounding effect
The use of multiple regression techniques to control for the potentially confounding effect of geographical distance as a predictor of community similarity was discussed.
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cooling effect
This cooling effect is therefore patchy and declines quickly when emissions of the gases, that form aerosols, are decreased.
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corrosive effect
The systematic disvaluing of the old or those with life-threatening illness might have a corrosive effect on social morality and community relations more generally.
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cumulative effect
For a sufficiently large negative anisotropy, the cumulative effect can evenly suppress the non-resonant filamentation mode along x-axis.
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damaging effect
It is clear that naive compaction has had a very damaging effect upon parsing performance.
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debilitating effect
We also found that perceived negative treatment by teachers or guidance counselors had a debilitating effect on adolescents' school motivation and emotional functioning as predicted.
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deleterious effect
More specifically, if students are prone to take criticism very personally, perhaps this may have a deleterious effect on their music education.
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desired effect
This is supported by the integral version of the balance law, and the desired effect of the singular sink.
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destructive effect
We could all quote ad infinitum examples of the destructive effect of bad employment practices.
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detrimental effect
Unprotected freezing of human spermatozoa exerts a detrimental effect on their oocyte activating capacity and chromosome integrity.
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devastating effect
It is well recognized that poor co-ordination between health and social care services can have a devastating effect on vulnerable older people.
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differential effect
A sense of the differential effect of drift and conversion in these nations can be gleaned from comparative data on out-of-pocket health spending.
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direct effect
However, even if corruption reduces pollution via its effect on income, this indirect effect is invariably dominated by the direct effect.
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disastrous effect
And nowhere is the morality of strike action by doctors, and its disastrous effect on morale really dealt with.
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discernible effect
There was no statistically discernible effect at all for senior, rural members.
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disruptive effect
This will have a disruptive effect on the purchasing power of workers and the functioning of the labor market.
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dramatic effect
However, the most dramatic effect comes from oscillating the observer's position very rapidly.
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ecological effect
How fire scars are formed: coupling a disturbance process to its ecological effect.
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effect modification
Effect modification by age category and season was statistically tested by adding this variable and its first-order interaction term to the final model.
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effect of ageing
These findings combine to frustrate the original aim of estimating the effect of ageing on the risk of stillbirth.
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effect of consumption
Effect of consumption of food cooked in iron pots on iron status and growth of young children : a randomised trial.
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effect of smoking
Re-infarction after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction followed by conservative management: incidence and effect of smoking.
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expected effect
Measures of potential impact reflect the expected effect of changing the distribution of one or more risk factors in a particular population.
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far-reaching effect
That fact has a very far-reaching effect on our industrial people throughout the whole of our industrial structure.
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gravitational effect
An overall difference of 47.1 ns was measured, which consisted of the velocity effect of -5.7 ns and a gravitational effect of 52.8 ns.
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harmful effect
Thus, early neglect may result in a number of different maladaptive outcomes, or it may, in some instances, have no obvious harmful effect.
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healing effect
The great healing effect of publicity is that by revealing men's motives it civilizes them.
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ill effect
Having to shout on stage ought not to produce ill effect.
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immediate effect
Its immediate effect was to bring the ferocious and often violent rivalries between trade unions into the workplace.
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indirect effect
However, even if corruption reduces pollution via its effect on income, this indirect effect is invariably dominated by the direct effect.
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inhibitory effect
This discrepancy in the inhibitory effect on excystment may be due to differences in the permeability of the cyst wall.
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intended effect
This step in the argument is useful only to see that the lamp will have the intended effect in the room.
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interactive effect
The key feature of the model concerns the interactive effect of attitude towards risk-taking on the cost-benefit and worst-outcome variables.
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lasting effect
The ' result focus ' event involved a brief contact between the objects which left a lasting effect on one of them.
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lighting effect
This section of the sauna is very dimly lit and dark with dim red lighting effect.
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lingering effect
Care was taken to ensure that participants in the negative condition were not suffering any lingering effect of the induction.
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long-lasting effect
Example 8 (pasta), where the weight loss was temporary, implied that expectations had no long-lasting effect on weight.
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long-term effect
The long-term effect of primary prevention is uncertain (2).
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main effect
The main effect as shown in figure 10 is that the larger particles could rise higher (for given initial velocity).
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marginal effect
The results, applied to the national picture, showed only a marginal effect of the change upon admissions to care homes.
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mass effect
Congestive heart failure was due to the mass effect of aneurysmal portion of the right atrium compressing the heart posteriorly.
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maximum effect
The average observation time was 19.4 days; the onset of any effect was 3.3 days; after 7.1 days the maximum effect was reached.
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measurable effect
By second grade, then, position in the alphabet no longer has a measurable effect in our data.
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moderating effect
Significant paths emerged for externalizing and internalizing symptoms; thus, the possibility of a moderating effect was examined only for these links.
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multiplier effect
Having an employed population with expendable income may have a multiplier effect, encouraging increased exchange throughout the district.
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negative effect
They were left out because it is unlikely that human activity in these areas has a negative effect over species protection.
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net effect
Depending on the market context, preference, type of technical change, and the nature of the crop, the net effect could go in any direction.
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nonlinear effect
The two intermediate values revealed a nonlinear effect.
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observable effect
This spread of masses covers main sequence lifetimes long enough for any biospheres to have had an observable effect on planet atmospheres.
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observed effect
I suggested that there are differences in the kind of analyzed data and not in the type of observed effect.
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opposite effect
However, that it had the opposite effect on parents with a partner in employment was not seen as a restriction on choice.
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optical effect
The authors propose that the phenomenon is an optical effect, produced by an atmosphere that often presages a violent storm.
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overall effect
It is reasonable to think that there may be an overall effect of distracters' length: the longer the distracter the larger the interference.
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paradoxical effect
Why should exempting the hands from their former communicational responsibilities have had the paradoxical effect of extending left-hemispheric control to these now-excluded hands?
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pernicious effect
Indeed, the most pernicious effect of realist prescriptions is that they contribute to other states' desires for relative gains, thereby reducing the potential for the deliberate construction of political order.
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perverse effect
In its global coverage, the book creates a slightly perverse effect.
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physiological effect
Thus, activation of either circuit has an opposite physiological effect on the basal ganglia output nucleus.
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positive effect
As such, the failure to show a significant positive effect of treatment might have limited clinical significance.
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potent effect
We report a potent effect of polyamines on the elongation rate, discussed in the light of the translation changes observed during early development.
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potential effect
Using mean utterance intensity therefore removes the potential effect that surrounding vowels might have on relative intensity of the intervening consonant.
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practical effect
Indeed, the rabbinical decree does not seem to have had much practical effect.
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predictable effect
We know, and the results confirmed, that lengthening the initial links (choice phase) has a dramatic and quantifiably predictable effect on preference.
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profound effect
It has had a profound effect on my life ever since.
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protective effect
The second is to consider the possible mechanisms that are at play in this protective effect.
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psychological effect
Also, the fact that the procedures are typed below each other, has the psychological effect of having the composer think along a time axis.
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relativistic effect
We can see that the photon energy is enlarged greatly in the laboratory frame because of the relativistic effect.
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reported effect
Intervention 8 had some groups with larger numbers, but the reported effect was diminished.
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residual effect
The residual effect of manure could last at least seven years, a longer period than had been expected.
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salutary effect
The emphasis on institutions has a salutary effect.
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secondary effect
Such collapses have the useful secondary effect of creating flexible verb-nouns, much as to feed back produces feedback.
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short-term effect
First, the brevity of the trial restricts our understanding to the short-term effect of liquid fluoxetine in autism.
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significant effect
There was a significant effect of site on the proportion of surviving seedlings and on the relative growth rates in terms of leaf number.
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substantial effect
As expected, those in poor health were much less likely to be active independently of the very substantial effect of disability.
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synergistic effect
Combinations of the drugs were evaluated and a synergistic effect was observed.
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therapeutic effect
The variations in concentration of active ingredients in these drugs caused variations in their therapeutic effect.
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toxic effect
However, their toxic effect upon early procaryote cells is not well determined.
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trickle-down effect
The trickle-down effect is simply a modern version of that.
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undesirable effect
It is a purely public health measure directed toward microorganisms that has the undesirable effect of limiting freedom of action.
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unfortunate effect
An unfortunate effect of this is to marginalise the religious content of blasphemy and its counter cultural tendencies.
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unintended effect
In 1970, however, a significant factor in the situation was the unintended effect of decades of state reliance on local authorities.
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unpleasant effect
You will never find generals criticising if criticism has an unpleasant effect on their future.
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unwanted effect
The amending regulation removes that unwanted effect, and restores the original policy intention.
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