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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But without a significant technological advance such projects will be expensive and may take many years to have any significant effect.
But the group size didn't seem to have a significant effect on productivity, Google found.
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The company expects the issue to have a significant effect on first quarter results.
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Many economists agree that the wage increase would not have a significant effect on prices or employment levels.
The books also taught me about human nature, how your actions can have a significant effect way down the line.
Although these figures are small in global terms, they are large enough to have a significant effect on the recipient countries.
Being a contributer to the marriage, not just financially but with their actions will have a significant effect on the happiness of both spouses.
Loneliness is thought to be rising around the world and how often you see friends and family could have a significant effect on health.
One thing NOAA's experts seem clear about is that the oil leak will not have a significant effect on the formation of the hurricanes themselves.
International pressure may also have a significant effect on the outcome.
The provision wouldn't have a significant effect on mortgage demand because rates are at their lowest levels in decades, said Guy Cecala, publisher of Inside Mortgage Finance.
"Given the site's proximity to the Brecon Beacons National Park, the proposals are likely to have a significant effect on a landscape of natural importance, " she said.
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Independent experts who do this for a living have said that this jobs bill will have a significant effect for our economy and middle-class families all across America.
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Mr Limb said that "we have increased class size numbers on part-time and full-time courses and I think this will have a significant effect on our community programme".
While some Republicans embrace the cuts as a needed step to rein in the deficit, some also warn they will have a significant effect, especially on defense programs.
Three things happened to me when I was 17 that turned out to have a significant effect on my interest in communications, and specifically non-verbal communications, later in life.
Each has demonstrated leadership in a different aspect of stem cell therapeutics and each is progressing toward an approved stem cell therapy that could have a significant effect on medical practice.
Yet in order to have any significant effect on demand for low carbon energy technologies, the price of carbon would need to be higher than any political economy has been willing to bear.
Now, analysts say that Congress will allow it--but that it is unlikely to have a significant effect on the industry's profits, because the number of pills brought into the U.S. in this way would actually be tiny.
Although it is unlikely that such political activity could have a significant effect on the average fan, in these sensitive economic times, these are considerations that sports industry leaders must take into account before making such contributions.
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Working with the geneticists' favourite animal, the fruit fly Drosophila, Dr Gibson has pinpointed a series of so-called cryptic variations that have no effect on a protein's structure, but can nevertheless, if the circumstances are right, have a significant effect on the individual they belong to.
Certainly this ruling seems to have had a significant effect on the sukuk market.
Past changes in regulatory capital or capital standards have had little significant effect on merger activity.
Gen Abbas said the move would have "no significant effect" on Pakistan's anti-terror efforts.
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The most powerful solar flares, X-class flares, have the most significant effect on Earth.
Depending on what gets changed, the Operation Compassion restatement could have a significant ripple effect throughout the charity world.
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But other campaigns seem to have had a significant effect on crime.
The reality is that while taxes on cigarettes, like other sin taxes, might have a social goal, they have a significant side effect: revenue.
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Previous modelling work has indicated that removing just a few key items each year could have a significant limiting effect on the growth of debris.
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