As I discussed in March, the most recent set of studies by economists indicates that hospital mergers have no effect on the quality of care, but do have a significant effect on the price that hospitals charge.
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It's clear that depression has a strong effect on quality of life for people with Alzheimer's disease.
And something that now happens far away from Iowa can have a ripple effect that impacts the quality of life and the standard of living for Americans.
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It is impressive in both the quality of the 3D effect and the range of devices with which it can work.
Improved atmospheric modeling under Titan will help researchers better understand future air quality as well as the effect of particles suspended in the air.
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Prosecutions could also be brought for attacks on guide dogs and other assistance dogs which ministers say can have a "devastating" effect on their owners' independence and quality of life.
Dr. William Graham, President Reagan's Science Advisor, estimates that, if the electricity is off in large sections of America (far more than the relatively small part of the country afflicted by Katrina) for as long as a year, the effect will not simply be on the quality of life here.
What is important is the quality of the cases and whether there are enough quality cases to create the deterrent effect that the SEC needs to create.
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The effect is vexing in direct proportion to the quality of the afflicted paintings.
But using prestige as the primary (if not sole) signal of educational quality can have a keenly perverse effect on higher education, particularly to the extent that prestige encourages escalating costs.
That is, the preferred response to rotation (if necessary) is to choose an option that they perceive to have a negative effect on audit quality in order to preserve their quality of life.
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The effect can be subtle or dramatic, depending on the quality of the source material.
To come back to my original point, the jump between Mass Effect 2 and 3 in gameplay mechanics is that of expansion pack quality, and not a real sequel.
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There are other quibbles to do with the quality of the data and assumptions about cause and effect.
Businesses and cities across the country should take note: Locally-inspired public spaces, even temporary ones, and other quality-of-life factors have a real effect on economies.
In the case of Starbucks, I think the effect of price on demand is more dramatic than commonly thought, as quality coffee can now be had at McDonald's for a fraction of Starbucks' prices.
The 16.3-megapixel BSI CMOS sensor and brighter F2.5 lens help deliver top-notch image quality even in low-light situations without the typical bleaching effect of artificial light.
If the search engineers at Google want evidence that their recent adjustment of their algorithm to favor higher-quality content is having the intended effect on content creators, they need look no further than the PaidContent 2011 conference.
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It will likely also have a severely chilling effect on the willingness of policy-makers rigorously to challenge, and thereby to improve, the quality of the intelligence they are getting about tomorrow's threats.
Forcing health plans to compete against each other is the best way to achieve high-quality coverage at the lowest cost, and implementing these reforms in Medicare can have the effect of lowering health-care costs for everyone.
Enter Chung, whose recent research paper, The Dynamic Advertising Effect of Collegiate Athletics, shows how on-field heroics can benefit schools by increasing both the quantity and the quality of students they can expect to attract.
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