Dr Pamela Schwartzberg said each of the steps only had a small effect but together they were significant.
So my take is: poorly done study, published in a relatively uncompetitive journal (PLoS ONE), with a small effect.
The study is very small, and could easily have missed a small effect.
But you can imagine that such has only a small effect on the total economy for each billion, or hundred billion, dollars spent.
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Researchers found no difference between those who took the supplement and those who didn't, though because of the number of study participants, researchers said they couldn't rule out a small effect one way or the other in certain groups of people.
However, all of these, except perhaps the last, are also likely to be linked to disease and, by careful statistical analysis, Mr Eppig and his colleagues show that all of them either disappear or are reduced to a small effect when the consequences of disease are taken into account.
Contrary to received wisdom, slashing the rich world's trade-distorting subsidies has a relatively small effect on poor countries.
Their planned austerity will have a correspondingly small effect on the euro-zone economy.
Two conventional on-going ALS studies are designed to see if lithium has a very small effect on survival, something the PatientsLikeMe study wouldn't be able to pick up.
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The move failed to reverse the horrendous losses suffered by equity investors in recent weeks, but it had a small positive effect in the bond markets, the immediate object of the exercise.
In contrast, research by Joanne Lynn, director of the Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies, has indicated that patient preferences, disease and family situation have a relatively small effect on the conditions in which patients die.
But there are only a few cases where we know the relationship of a specific mutation to a specific effect, and also only a small number of cases where an effect is determined by a single gene rather than the combined effects of hundreds or thousands of genes.
Yet in such a volatile market, a small rise in rates could have a disproportionate effect.
So for all the wonderful benefits of better plant-life conditions, there will be a relatively small negative side effect.
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One could argue that the actions of any single small business may not have a big effect on the country or the economy, but how small-business owners or managers make decisions about employees can and will affect a great many lives.
In all three cases, explained Dr Stysley, the effect is a small one - but it could in some instances outperform existing methods of sample gathering.
The study was too small to show a significant effect.
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And now they're finding that with the commercial real estate market actually not having bottomed out, it's sort of trailing the housing market in terms of problems that it's having, that's having a lot of effect on small banks as well.
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Small steps can create a ripple effect and lead to big, positive and lasting changes.
This would, in effect, prevent a small minority of creditors from holding everyone else to ransom.
The small effect was just a random variation, not due to the treatment.
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The researchers suggest a "small but significant" negative effect of 4% linked to the combined effects of smoking and impaired lung function - itself linked to smoking.
Although there are a relatively small number of pedicabs operating in a small part of central London, they have a disproportionate effect on traffic congestion and congregate in pedestrian areas, TfL claims.
Simplicity, when applied correctly, has a more profound and long-lasting effect than a lot of information crammed into a small space.
"All of the updated data that we have collated supports the conclusion that claims management companies have had a marked effect on the number of small injury, whiplash-like claims, " said David Brown, chairman of the actuaries' professional body.
It is reasonable to assume that a tax rate change limited to a small group of taxpayers at the top of the income distribution would have a negligible effect on economic growth.
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But, these small lies end up having a pretty distorting effect on our behavior or our perceptions.
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Even though the force acting on the asteroid would be extremely small, the cumulative effect over a week or so should be enough to do the trick.
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