The phrase "a minimal effect of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact or influence of something that is small or insignificant.
Example: "The study revealed a minimal effect of the new policy on employee productivity."
Alternatives: "a slight impact of" or "a negligible effect of".
"Our findings show a minimal effect of social contact frequency on mortality and call into question interventions and clinical advice that simply seek to increase one's social contact frequency," said Dr Eran Shor, who led the study.
The trends are highly linear and indicate a minimal effect of solution saturation even at ΔGr close to equilibrium.
There was only a minimal effect of stand density on breast height outerwood density, and a weak negative relationship between wood density and tree diameter within a stand.
Generalized linear mixed models demonstrated that neither spring dispersal (movements or area traversed) were correlated with TSF, age, or sex (n = 114), further demonstrating a minimal effect of prescribed fire; however, dispersal areas were greater in 2013 than in 2014 (P < 0.05).
EGFP expression varied by less than 10% between culture conditions, indicating a minimal effect of IL-3 on p21 transcription and bolstering a posttranscriptional basis for differences in p21 mRNA levels (Figure 1B).
Other studies have also found a minimal effect of vegetation on water capture over and above that of the growing medium [27] and our results suggest that low-diversity canopies prevent evaporation, reducing the amount of water that can be captured in subsequent rain events (Fig. 2)(Table S1), presumably by shading the surface of the growing medium [32].
The equal numbers of NeuN-positive neurons and S100-positive glia between the mutant and the control cerebral cortex suggested that loss of Tsc2 had a minimal effect on proliferation of radial glial cells.
Interestingly, though platensimycin had a minimal effect on FabH of other bacteria [2], overexpression of Mt-FabH in theory should confer a small degree of resistance to platensimycin but no significant change was observed (Table 1).
The oil length of the alkyd backbone had a minimal effect on stability of the resin and film performance.
Supplementing different fat types had a minimal effect on responses of lambs.
Note that adjustment for important prognostic factors had a minimal effect on estimates of treatment magnitude.
