As part of the case-control study, rectal swabs were not requested because of concern that this would decrease the participation rate.
Clearly, this would decrease any effects of sound symbolism (because the categories would overlap more) but would increase the ecological validity of the stimuli, because including "noise" in the categories would, if anything, decrease the likelihood of detecting sound symbolic effects, and would thus be indicative of the robustness of the effect.
A Hamas supporter in Syria, Abu Almajad, said that Qatar would be happy to see Mr. Meshal move there because that would decrease the influence of Iran on Hamas.
In New Hampshire, the Republican House speaker was caught telling a Tea Party gathering that he supported the law because it would decrease student voting, and "They're foolish.
They want stricter standards because they would decrease America's reliance on foreign oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Teilhard de Chardin's concept of the biosphere might be useful in answering this, where the extinction of species certainly would leave serious implications on the biosphere's stability, because it would decrease the interacting relationships between its parts and influence the quality of interactions within the entire 'chain' that maintains the stability.
When George W. Bush signed the bill, he said he supported the bipartisan legislation because it would decrease America's dependence on foreign oil, an issue that had become vital following the attacks of September 11, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The recently released zebrafinch and platypus genomes [30], [31] allowed us also to identify novel partial KLK-like sequences (zebra finch) (Table S1) which were not included in the phylogenetic analysis because they would decrease the resolution of the phylogenetic tree.
However, merchants would also be affected by a welfare surcharge because revenues would decrease as consumption decreases.
If a block cannot be removed because it would decrease the prediction capacity of the classification model then the next block (following the ranking of attributes) is tested.
