Known sometimes as the "birthdate effect" or "relative age effect", this generally diminishes as children get older but does not vanish.
"With this data now available from more than one study, it really becomes the responsibility of parents, physicians, and teachers to pay attention to the relative-age effect and not intervene with treatment and labeling of children who it's no fault of their own what time of year they were born, " Garland says.
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Series like Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Resident Evil and Dead Space have gone through identity crises in an attempt to appeal to a lower common denominator of gamers.
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When in control of either character, you can pause combat and assign a queue of attacks for both of them using a weapon wheel (think Dragon Age or Mass Effect).
Congress rejected this 1937 proposal and turned against further New Deal measures, but not before the Social Security Act creating old-age pensions went into effect.
Again, Mass Effect and Dragon Age Origins allow players to do this as do the Batman Arkham games.
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So a new Dragon Age and a new Mass Effect on the way, and a wide array of fans some of whom are excited and others deeply skeptical.
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The two former doctors founded Bioware in 1995, and developed iconic titles like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and most recently, Star Wars: The Old Republic (an MMO).
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Both Disneyland and Disneyworld have the rare effect of touching all age groups significantly.
As a result, Britain's coppers are wondering whether one side-effect of the information age is going to be an upsurge of civil disobedience.
Criticism sparked around the release of Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age 2 from Bioware, as fans of the originals complained of simplification and streamlining.
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Whatever controversy dogged the company with Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2, Bioware has had a profound impact on the ascendance of Western RPGs.
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Illicit trade is age-old, a continuous facet and side effect of market economies or of commerce in general.
Among them are Dead Space, Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2, Need For Speed Shift, Mass Effect 1 and 2, Sim City 4, Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Mirror's Edge.
She argued that any "sister effect" would wear off as the age gap increased because the siblings would be on "different life trajectories", whereas those of similar ages would have similar social circles.
That would be South Korea, where gaming addiction is a serious problem among youths, so much so that last year a ban went into effect which does not allow kids under the age of 16 to game online between 12 AM and 6 AM in order to force them to get some sleep.
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The protective effect of aspirin appeared to be consistent regardless of age, sex, race or country of origin.
Changes to housing benefit affecting working-age social housing tenants deemed to have spare bedrooms came into effect on 1 April.
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Ms. MEYERS: The pipeline effect is a concept where we approached children at the early age, kindergarten.
Convinced of his ugliness from an early age, he ignored and abused his body, to no obvious ill effect.
Meanwhile, Mexico's age-old linkage to the United States' economy is already having an effect.
When they looked at correlations between a man's income and his height at the ages of seven, 11 and 16, as well as his adult height, Dr Persico and his colleagues found that all of the effect of height on income was actually attributable to height at the age of 16.
In effect, the company wants to turn Twitter into a kind of Internet age alternative to traditional press release services like BusinessWire and PR Newswire.
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Pal Suren, the lead author of the Norwegian study, says that no adjustments for parental age or other factors seemed to make a big difference in the size of the effect.
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The effect was to create a clock that investigators can now use to determine the age of victims of crimes or natural disasters, for example.
As we explained earlier today, the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009, which took effect this morning, is designed to prevent consumers (particularly those under the age of 21) from plunging themselves into an insurmountable level of debt.
The authors note that financial barriers and access to health care account for some of the disparities in cancer screening rates, but that education levels, age, and length of residence in the U.S. for some immigrant subgroups also have an effect.
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The main effect of the new law was not an increase in the numbers of people working beyond the age of 65 but a big rise in severance pay for people leaving at what until then had been the mandatory retirement age.
In 2003 she coined the term "the positivity effect, " a phenomenon that describes how people focus more on positive than negative information in old age.
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