The unpredictable positive feedback effect of being first, achieving meteorically rapid scale makes picking winners hard.

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The wheel has a very different feel from the G27 we've been using of late, a bit more resistance and force feedback effect.

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But on Black Monday, a feedback effect was created.

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Here, the literature also points to a positive feedback effect with decisive expenditure-based fiscal consolidation because this type of consolidation appears to foster growth, in particular in times of severe fiscal imbalances.

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Thankfully there is a suite of configurable parameters that can be changed on the wheel itself, things like total force feedback effect, the linearity of motion of the wheel, the number of degrees of rotation you'd like on offer (up to 900), and about a half-dozen other minutia.

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That is, there would be a positive feedback effect from health reforms and efficiencies - above all at the demand level by addressing ill health - and a negative one from failing to do so. (If anybody can calculate what 12.5% would be in today's money, then we know the difference between the Wanless "worst case" and what Mr Lansley warns about today).

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The researchers from the KNMI suggest the "negative feedback" effect outlined in their study is expected to continue into the future.

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He theorized that the pain-dulling effect also owed to feedback from the lungs back up through the vagus nerve to the brain.

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In this context, a network effect is a positive feedback loop whereby platforms with stronger ecosystem of developers, content and service providers attract more customers.

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Can we create more effective feedback loops with these ratings to positively effect the behavior of the rated?

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It becomes a feedback loop, called the "winner effect".

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Take more notice of your effect on others in the future, and keep that feedback loop open.

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In effect, they can, and often do, create a vicious feedback loop.

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Feedback received from individual participants and schools indicate that the RTLP is having a positive effect on learners and their families.

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