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.
It is impressive in both the quality of the 3D effect and the range of devices with which it can work.
But shadow universities minister Gareth Thomas denounced the White Paper as "a desperate drive to cut fees, no matter what the effect on quality".
To that end, the ultimate effect on credit quality may influence the decision-making process.
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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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Patient experience, convenience and quality of care do not effect, or at least significantly effect, clinical reimbursement in the standard, traditional fee-for-service Medicare program.
She said Beijing Olympic organizers and Chinese environment authorities are providing the IOC with daily updates about pollution and weather, which can both have an effect on air quality.
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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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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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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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.
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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As new regulations clean up shipping fuels in order to improve air quality in coastal regions, that brightening effect will be reduced, adding to the world's warming in a sort of inadvertent reverse geoengineering.
In other words, we expect that students do have an incentive to minimize their costs (unless the subsidy program is set up in such a way to negate that incentive), though the fact that students use price as a proxy measure for quality in higher ed likely significantly dampens this effect.
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.
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.
The effect is vexing in direct proportion to the quality of the afflicted paintings.
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.
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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However, the automatic across-the-board budget cuts that took effect earlier this month are likely to make it tougher to find quality staff from within the Obama Administration, since government agencies are already facing staff furloughs.
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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.
These democratic countries occupy a privileged position that gives them unique prerogative to address the quality of Burma's electoral processes, and they should use their status to full effect in the coming months.
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.
Many attempts to reshape organizations inevitably have a scattershot quality, and the teams leading the charge never really know whether the changes will have a real effect.
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.
Though recent economic data has offered some encouraging signs for the recovery, Hoversen argued that given the quality of the recovery and the fact that the main driver behind the earnings is cost cutting and a base effect, the currency markets seem to be reacting to a momentum that doesn't accurately reflect the state of the macro environment.
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