direct effect
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandeffect
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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effect
noun
uk/ɪˈfekt/us/əˈfekt/
the result of a ...
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(Definition ofdirectandeffectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, even if corruption reduces pollution via its effect on income, this indirect effect is invariably dominated by thedirecteffect.
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Drugs may also cause dysphagia by adirecteffecton muscle f unction that disrupts peristalsis.
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Consider first thedirecteffectof discretion on compliance.
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While participation did not have adirecteffecton constitutional support, it did have an indirect one.
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The political environment has adirecteffecton farm economics through federal farm programs.
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In many cases, the indirect effect reinforces thedirecteffect: corruption reduces income, and lower income goes along with higher pollution levels.
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Thus, the previously reported in vivo activities of these drugs result largely from adirecteffecton the parasite.
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To answer this question, we first examined thedirecteffectof minority status on people's predisposition to protest.
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These changing patterns of migration had adirecteffecton the need for chieftaincies or even individual tribes to provide security for their members.
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This suggests that fire has littledirecteffecton densities of this species.
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Findings concerning thedirecteffectof coping on substance use in young adulthood are more mixed.
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However, their study was cross-sectional, and did not examine thedirecteffectof language instruction on phonological memory.
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According to context-independent theories, sentence context does not exert adirecteffecton the processes of lexical access.
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Gestagens may affect milk quality either by adirecteffecton the mammary tissue or indirectly by affecting blood components.
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Thedirecteffectof regulation, measured in terms of regulatory power and stringency, seems ambiguous.
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Addition of vials with honey had nodirecteffecton the bruchid population or on the parasitoid progeny.
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Whether this is adirecteffector a proxy measure of some other cause within the rural environment will require further research.
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An obviousdirecteffectis through the intertemporal price of consumption.
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The analysis of the ' non-robust memory ' group data showed that age had nodirecteffecton memory performance for this group, nor did processing speed.
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One possibility is that a child's vocabulary score is adirecteffectof exposure to informative uses of rare words in discourse.
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