While manipulating levels of genetic variance is an attractive approach to test general predictions, we also need to carry out experiments with natural populations that capture effective standing genetic variation in the wild.
Maria Theresa proposed establishing an effective standing army of 110,000 more60,000 more than in her father's day and 30,000 more than the Prussian peacetime army of Frederick William I.
It is a story full of false starts -- Aethelstan and Edgar in the 10th century, Edward the Confessor in the 11th, Richard the Lion-Hearted in the 12th, Henry V in the 15th -- until a permanent and effective standing navy finally emerged under the Tudor dynasty (1485-1603).
Is wearing a night splint as effective as standing on a tilt table in preventing ankle dorsiflexion contracture and promoting the ability to stand up early after stroke?
PPOs negotiate discounts down from these rates, but hospital chains have been effective at standing firm on high prices.
Question: Is a combination of standing, electrical stimulation and splinting more effective than standing alone for the management of ankle contractures after severe brain injury?
But Ms. Norton has been indefatigable in her efforts on behalf of her beloved District and, despite the odds stacked against her, has proved to be effective in standing up for the city's interests.
Additionally, you can make this even more effective by standing on two benches (one foot on each either side) and squatting down with the weight in the middle, which will enable you increase your range of motion.
The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a novel play-based intervention designed to improve self-regulatory skills in at-risk pre-schoolers, to that of behavioural management, a well validated, highly effective, long standing, treatment approach which is the current gold-standard psychological intervention for behavioural problems in young children.
While, as the Supreme Court noted with enthusiasm, on the Internet everyone can be a pamphleteer or have their own soapbox, the Internet does not, in fact, allow individuals to be heard in ways that are substantially more effective than standing on a soapbox in a city square.
"It's up to the rest of us to support his leadership and to make sure that the parliamentary Labour party can work in a single-minded, united and effective way, standing up for Labour's core values, holding the government to account, setting out our alternative agenda and giving an example of unity to the rest of the Labour Party and more generally to the Labour and trade union movement.
