Harriet Millward, of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, said a number of studies had hinted that testosterone replacement therapy might have positive effects on mood or mental processes.
Integrated horticultural infrastructure and a national smart grid have three important things in common: They can begin to have positive effects at a small level and expand to large scale, they are long term, and they produce jobs with money that circulates within our economy.
The notion that preemptively raising wages would have positive ripple effects throughout society goes back at least a century.
He figures if even just two of them go on to do the same (and likewise for each of them), what he has done will have positive exponential effects.
"Even where these have had positive effects, progress has been too slow and incremental, and fundamental concerns remain about the competitive structure and performance of these markets, " he said.
These have had positive effects on the environment.
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And that's the kind of approach that, again, if the committee and Congress took his proposals, passed them now, and the President signed them into law, would have enormously positive effects on the American economy and the global economy.
As investors see the value of diversification into sustainable tropical forestry on their portfolio then even a small asset allocation into this asset class will have huge positive effects on forest preservation at a time the world needs stable tropical forest holdings most.
My hunch is that the arts do have these kinds of positive effects.
As such, it may prove to have long-lasting positive effects for cooperation possibilities of cultural institutions in the countries involved.
The government thinks it is worth funding such schemes because they can have positive knock-on effects on the surrounding areas.
And that money is important because, unlike a lot of things you can do, this is money that will likely be spent, and therefore help the families spending it, and then have add-on positive effects on the economy because that money is then introduced into the economy.
He continues to believe that we need to take on those issues, do it in a balanced way, do it in a way that will set us on a path for long-term deficit reduction, long-term stability in the relationship between our debt and GDP, and that that will have long-term positive effects on our economy.
Still, the Economist offers some reason for hope, suggesting that perhaps the effects of the information technology remain to be seen, and we are in a gestation period during which the positive economic effects have yet to appear.
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"It isn't a huge surprise when you consider many positive effects exercise can have with regards to the brain chemistry: dopamine, serotonin, endorphin, epinephrine -- these are all associated with mood altering effects, " said Dr. Cedric Bryant, the chief science officer for the American Council on Exercise.
To the extent that their spouses come with them instead of them marrying a native they are surely more likely than average to have high IQ children who generate positive peer effects, and high-skilled spouses who also contribute to the economy through a job of their own or household production.
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An alternative approach is to appeal to the classical Greek philosophy that views kindness through the lens of reason, emphasizing the positive effects acts of kindness have not just on the receiver of kindness but to the giver of kindness as well, not for the salvation of the soul in the afterlife, but in this life.
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After each of Chelsea's last two games he has suggested his team should have been awarded a penalty - a tactic with several possible positive effects.
On a more positive note, the benign effects of lower gasoline prices have yet to benefit U.S consumer spending.
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At the scale of the clean energy sector as a whole the effects of the cash grant program have been substantial and positive.
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These positive effects are transitory, however, when local economies have insufficient permanent employment to justify a constant level of demand for new housing stock.
The finding fits with evidence from seven other countries that have had similar carbon tax shifts in place for over a decade, resulting in neutral or slightly positive effects on GDP.
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Meanwhile, financial markets have taken a more positive tone in recent weeks, noted Bank of America Merrill Lynch, largely on the effects of the European Central Bank's three-year long-term refinancing operation.
The Internet and its related technologies have made the process of outsourcing manufacturing so efficient that the effects on American jobs have overwhelmed the jiu-jitsu economic process of turning a negative thrust into a positive outcome.
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