But, the uppermost effect size difference was weak, 0.22, which is similar to the effect size mentioned for adults.
Stunningly, the typical answer-based tutoring systems average an effect size of around 0.35 standard deviations, and all three of the step-based, substep-based, and human tutoring cluster around an effect size of 0.75 standard deviations.
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It will also drive some amount of traffic to that page (ditto with size of effect) from which the newspaper will earn more money from advertising.
The size of this effect will depend on how quickly rebuilding spending increases throughout the quarter.
Nevertheless, well-run Carnival uses its size to great effect and has a superior net profit margin of 19%, to Royal's 10%.
At most the effect size of treatment differences was weak (at 0.2).
The size of this effect is bigger than the fund previously thought.
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Pal Suren, the lead author of the Norwegian study, says that no adjustments for parental age or other factors seemed to make a big difference in the size of the effect.
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In other words, some machine-based tutoring is approaching the effect size of real human tutoring and there is less variation than one might expect as the grain size of tutoring becomes finer.
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But he misses the fact that if a community were to attract an Internet of a biotech company of similar size, the effect on job creation in the service sector would be even larger.
From the use of surrogate endpoints (based on biological plausibility and the results of preclinical studies) to the distinction between correlation and causation, confounding (whether the effect size is too large to be explained away by confounding), and the hypothesis-generating nature of the inferential process.
Certainly, if 750, 000 Americans lose their jobs, that could have an effect on the size of the middle class.
This had a marked effect on the size of the treated tumour, and also seemed to encourage tumour regression in other parts of the body.
He said these would not have the desired effect of reducing the size of the Lords and were "no surrogate for democracy".
While there is a slight drop in the share of small businesses offering health insurance since 1998, which probably the result of rising costs, company size continues to have a profound effect on the decision to offer insurance.
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The tastiness and package size of a food product can have an effect on satiety and how much a person ultimately consumes.
But the group size didn't seem to have a significant effect on productivity, Google found.
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Over the years the Zambrano clan slowly increased the size of the business, but it remained in effect a sleepy regional cement company.
The West has been particularly dazzled by Gorbachev's announced intention to effect dramatic, unilateral reductions in the size and character of the Soviet military.
But then there is another difficulty: making the components exactly the right size is even more crucial for a quantum-effect device than for a regular transistor.
Only an eye-witness can give an account of the sudden effect which currency reform had on the size of stocks and the wealth of goods on display.
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With a housing-wealth effect twice as large (the same size as in Mr Muellbauer's study) and one and a half times as speedy, it would be 1.5% lower a little earlier.
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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Although Mr Koizumi has had close ties to the finance ministry, upon taking office he was initially more concerned with overhauling expenditures, and their effect on Japanese politics, than with the size of the fiscal balance itself.
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An EU source told the BBC that the ECJ ruling has full, immediate effect EU-wide, regardless of the type or size of employer.
There is an effect upon interest rates, but it is negligible given the size of the economy.
It began by raising the capital reserves its banks had to hold, in effect removing money from its financial system, and increasing the size of down-payments required to purchase real estate.
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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta foreshadowed the crisis in a letter to Congress last November warning that if the law was implemented as written, then cuts scheduled to go into effect next January could result in the Navy shrinking to its smallest size in a century and the Air Force having the fewest number of planes in its entire history.
The regression results for Europe, using the same approach as outlined earlier, show a consistently negative effect of social transfers on growth, even though the coefficients vary in size and significance (table A7.4).
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In a 2009 paper Mr Glaeser and Matthew Resseger of Harvard University find that in highly skilled areas, city size explains 45% of the variation in worker productivity (it has almost no effect in underskilled cities).
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