Dr Pamela Schwartzberg said each of the steps only had a small effect but together they were significant.
Contrary to received wisdom, slashing the rich world's trade-distorting subsidies has a relatively small effect on poor countries.
So my take is: poorly done study, published in a relatively uncompetitive journal (PLoS ONE), with a small effect.
The small effect was just a random variation, not due to the treatment.
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The study is very small, and could easily have missed a small effect.
Their planned austerity will have a correspondingly small effect on the euro-zone economy.
But you can imagine that such has only a small effect on the total economy for each billion, or hundred billion, dollars spent.
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Western donors made up much of the aid gap (Mongolians get among the highest number of aid dollars per head in the world), but to dismayingly small effect.
Two conventional on-going ALS studies are designed to see if lithium has a very small effect on survival, something the PatientsLikeMe study wouldn't be able to pick up.
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In contrast, research by Joanne Lynn, director of the Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies, has indicated that patient preferences, disease and family situation have a relatively small effect on the conditions in which patients die.
Researchers found no difference between those who took the supplement and those who didn't, though because of the number of study participants, researchers said they couldn't rule out a small effect one way or the other in certain groups of people.
Given the small effect observed in this large study, the lack of a clear trend with increasing coffee consumption, and the fact that other risk factors are likely to be correlated with coffee consumption, any conclusion regarding the relationship of coffee drinking to risk of stroke remains moot.
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However, all of these, except perhaps the last, are also likely to be linked to disease and, by careful statistical analysis, Mr Eppig and his colleagues show that all of them either disappear or are reduced to a small effect when the consequences of disease are taken into account.
The move failed to reverse the horrendous losses suffered by equity investors in recent weeks, but it had a small positive effect in the bond markets, the immediate object of the exercise.
Although the direct, measurable cost of malpractice premiums is small, the effect on physician behaviour is enormous.
So for all the wonderful benefits of better plant-life conditions, there will be a relatively small negative side effect.
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This should solve the two key failures of too-small field-effect transistors.
But there are only a few cases where we know the relationship of a specific mutation to a specific effect, and also only a small number of cases where an effect is determined by a single gene rather than the combined effects of hundreds or thousands of genes.
Under the Scottish government's small business bonus scheme, which came into effect in April, many small firms pay no rates at all but the transitional relief for larger companies was scrapped.
What about combining of these two factors, The January Effect in small-caps and the Presidential Cycle?
They will give us tomorrow's Apples and the multiplier effect of small businesses and exciting new jobs that go with them.
This may be partly due to the effect of small, unresolved variations in the atmosphere, such as internal waves, that weakened the storm.
The effect was small but the researchers said that when magnified across 48 million people it could have a large impact on public health.
Even though the force acting on the asteroid would be extremely small, the cumulative effect over a week or so should be enough to do the trick.
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And now they're finding that with the commercial real estate market actually not having bottomed out, it's sort of trailing the housing market in terms of problems that it's having, that's having a lot of effect on small banks as well.
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One could argue that the actions of any single small business may not have a big effect on the country or the economy, but how small-business owners or managers make decisions about employees can and will affect a great many lives.
Anytime you drop an object into water, you witness the ripple effect, however small the object.
But all the stakeholders suffered during GM's bankruptcy, so this effect may be small.
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