Teacher effects are also much stronger than class-size effects.
They are just very, very, very big, in physical size and in potential effects.
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Professor Mark Bailey of Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland said an asteroid of that size could have devastating effects on the Earth.
It would just be nice to have some solid empirical evidence on the size and direction of these effects before taking a final stand on the issue.
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Cue all manner of special effects: spiders the size of hubcaps, elephants in the hallway.
"Photo Retouch" adds a generous palette of adjustments like brightness, saturation and contrast plus Soft Skin, re-size and other post-shooting effects.
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Even if it is hard to be sure how big these effects are, the size of the very top level seems to matter, so Britain's 50% rate is more dangerous than Mr Obama's proposal to raise America's top federal income-tax rate from 35% to 39.6%.
Morgan Spurlock made his name as a documentary film-maker with Super Size Me, which looked at the effects of eating fast food.
The effects have been magnified by the large size of Cyprus's financial system relative to its economy.
Last month Jennifer Doleac, assistant professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia, published a paper entitled The Effects of DNA Databases on Crime, which suggested that size matters: "larger DNA databases reduce crime rates".
"At the root of the euro upheaval is a balance of payment crisis caused by the cumulative effects of a 13-year-old one-size-fits-all monetary policy and a fixed exchange rate for a collection of disparate countries in very different stages of economic and structural development, " he argues.
Although the findings of the studies are mostly consistent in showing a similar magnitude hazard ratio, estimates of the effectiveness of sipuleucel-T are imprecise due to the relatively small total sample size of the clinical trials, and unmeasurable biases due to potential confounding effects of frozen salvage product and post-progression treatments.
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There has been little evidence to suggest that Kershaw will feel any lingering effects in his next start albeit using this small sample size.
Infants and children, because of their smaller size and stage of development, are particularly at risk from the harmful health effects of BPA. But since BPA is not listed on food or drink labels, we have no way of knowing our daily exposure, or which products to avoid.
The goal is to replace today's one-size-fits-all therapies with personalized treatment, maximizing efficacy and minimizing side effects.
And systems and complexity theory suggest strongly that a relatively small number is in play when it comes to the size of the critical mass of folks in whom lost confidence can have sweeping, cascading effects.
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Generally speaking, displacement effects are likely to be greater if the event in question is of significant size and if it takes place during a time of year that otherwise would likely attract visitors regardless of whether there was a sporting event taking place.
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But the unexpectedly big effect that climate change could have on body size suggests that we may be missing a big piece of the puzzle of understanding climate change effects in the ocean.
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"Our attempts to conserve fish communities by regulating the size of fish that can be fished for, and by removing specifically the larger fish, may have had opposite effects to those intended, " she said.
Brown argues it Nvidia can double the size of its addressable workstation GPU market by offering more sophisticated visual computing capabilities on desktop workstations for use in visual effects and video editing, among other applications.
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