The phrase "a rather small effect" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the significance or impact of a particular variable or factor in a study or analysis.
Example: "The results indicated that the new policy had a rather small effect on employee productivity."
Alternatives: "a somewhat minor effect" or "a relatively insignificant effect."
The numerical study also shows that changes to the wall mechanical response are dominated by seasonal temperature changes, and using the wall for heat exchange has a rather small effect.
In conclusion, while the filtering part has a rather small effect on the overall complexity in the worst-case full-range Doppler search, the effect may be quite significant in limited search cases when there is prior information about the Doppler values of different satellites, which is often the practical situation.
While addition of cultured algae alone led to a rather small effect in fish free enclosures, the presence of fish mediated a strong increase in chlorophyll-a in enclosures with ≥10 fish m−3, probably through intense predation on zooplankton.
Unlike some previous studies, in which very large simulated synaptic conductances were activated on a single dendritic locations, in our simulations each modeled synapse contributed a smaller conductance and had a rather small effect on the membrane potential at the synaptic location.
Moreover, no CO2-enhanced growth was obtained in the minimal medium containing pyruvate or glucose (Figure 1d and 1e), and 13C-isotopomer distribution of protein-based amino acids suggests that the presence of bicarbonate has a rather small effect on pyruvate and glucose metabolism in R. denitrificans (Table S1c and S1f).
As this movement time could be related to the gradient of movements in Figure 5, investigators' results suggest a rather small effect of unilateral or bilateral target on the present difference observed in head movement.
Rather, many genes of small effect make up the 60% heritable variation in the trait.
Different environmental conditions had a rather smaller effect on transcription.
A meta- analysis on gender differences in burnout yielded rather small effect sizes [ 18].
The fact that there is multitude of rather small effect QTLs underlines the concept of multiple tolerance mechanisms involved in different types of Fe toxicity, for example chronic versus pulse stress.
Third, plant responses to environmental stresses, including salt, are complex and polygenic traits, and controlled by genetic networks consist of large number of rather small effect loci.
