The Sri Lankan cultural context may exert a blanket effect on women (i.e. an effect that influences most women, therefore with low variance) that emphasises the genetic component of depression, as compared with the Western world.
The higher pump price of premium can have a wet-blanket effect on sales of vehicles in the lower price classes.
That's an important phenomenon for sustaining life, of course, but too much of the blanket effect can make life as we've known it far more difficult.
Because mulches fade in sunlight and as they decay, some people replenish mulch too often, increasing the thickness of it and compounding the blanket effect.
Together with the topographic effect, the chimney and blanketing effects control the regional-scale temperature distribution in the sedimentary part of the model.
The long-awaited agreement struck between senator Patty Murray and congressman Paul Ryan staves off the threat of another government shutdown for two years and will relieve the worst effects of blanket budget cuts known as the sequester.
Chuck (played by Spinal Tap's Michael McKean) is a recluse on extended leave from his legal firm who lives without electricity and wraps himself in a shiny "space blanket" to ward off the effects of exposure to Saul's mobile phone.
We injected water into the winter snow and studied the effects of compaction and artificial surface cover blankets.
Effects of energy sources, riser insulation blanket, sea current, etc. on heat transfer of gas liquid two phase flow with environment were considered in the model.
This project has a four related objectives: communication in order to raise awareness of arsenic contamination and its effects blanket testing of tube-wells identification of patients with arsenic poisoning (arsenicosis) providing assistance to obtain safe water supplies.
