Helicopters have dumped approximately 30 tons of seawater on the No. 3 reactor building to attempt to cool it down, but officials are still trying to figure out if it had any effect.

为了使三号反应堆冷却，直升机已经在那里倾泻了30多吨海水，但是官方仍然无法知道此方法是否有效。

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And in so far as it is possible for me, to try to preempt what that impact or effect might be in the sense of trying to figure out whether or not it will have an impact on you and what it might be.

只要有可能，我就会通过自己对诗歌的感受,来试图推断这首诗,是否会对读者产生冲击，会产生怎样的冲击。

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Other factors that contribute to false results are small sample sizes, studies that show weak effects (such as a drug which works only on a small number of patients) and poorly designed studies that allow the researchers to fish among their data until they find some kind of effect, regardless of what they started out trying to prove.

ECONOMIST: Just how reliable are scientific papers?

Having a big impact on these big issues requires stepping out of your comfort zone and trying to create that network effect.

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