Whatever the reason, the researchers say that experimenters should not think of themselves as benign observers, and that the effects of a little human touch need to be considered when experiments are designed.
To evaluate the effects of a little bedtime math, Beilock, psychologist Susan Levine, and colleagues at the University of Chicago recruited 587 first-graders from 22 schools, public and private, richer and poorer, in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Still, many of the form-fitting knit dresses — in a kind of raw patchwork of drab tones — were undeniably appealing, as was the streamlined effect of wearing a little zippered jacket over a matching dress.
28 The effect of even a little bias can be surprisingly dramatic.
With her compelling sand animation about the effects of a little-known parasitic disease, University of Texas Southwestern medical student Shelly Xie took home the annual Communications Award of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
While there is little effect of A-928605 in the vector control cell line at concentrations sufficient for the inhibition of cellular IGF1R, it is a potent inhibitor of cellular proliferation of the CD8-IGF1R cells with an IC50 of less than 0.3 μM, indicating that these transformed cells now rely on IGF1R signaling to proliferate.
So now we are beginning to hear murmurings about the possible invigorating effects of 'just a little inflation.' Perhaps 4 or 5percentt a year would be just the thing to deal with the overhang of debt and encourage the 'animal spirits' of business, or so the argument goes... Some mathematical models spawned in academic seminars might support this scenario.
So now we are beginning to hear murmurings about the possible invigorating effects of "just a little inflation".
Is it just an attempt to imitate the chuckly, style-referential parentheticals with which the reporter was permitted to clutter the piece (charming? cloying?), or is the Corrections editor keen to get a plug in for the New York Times Manual of Style, to, in effect, steal a little of The Elements of Style's thunder on its 50th birthday?
