The efforts to require holding periods for executives' stock remain scattered, but they have the potential to have a far broader effect than the attempts to punish executives after they have violated a law, major investors say.
Unlike commercial brain training products, which only improve performance on the skills involved, musical training has what psychologists refer to as transfer effects – in other words, learning to play a musical instrument seems to have a far broader effect on the brain and mental function, and improves other abilities that are seemingly unrelated.
Chua Soon Guan, director of policy and planning at the Public Utilities Board, said that while the wastewater and desalination plants had been commissioned to reduce Singapore's reliance on imports of water from Malaysia, they had had a far broader economic effect.
But the argument in favour of self-driving cars is far broader, with huge positive effects on the quality of life in our cites by redistributing our access to shared and sustainable transport.
The far broader, and more immediate, effect of the new law will be on the case of Ernest P. McCarver, which is now before the United States Supreme Court.
By using these analyses, we gained a far broader insight into the effect of PCV-7 on bacterial carriage at the ecologic niche of pneumococci without restricting selection to cultivable or well-known potential pathogens.
It also will have to recalibrate its weak public health system to provide for far broader testing, and train doctors and nurses to monitor the dosage and effects of antiretroviral therapy.
Yet his concept of the New Cinema was far broader than exercises in pure form, and here, too, he proved prophetic: in effect, Mekas defined as "New" anything that struck him as aesthetically new.
But a renegade group of doctors use it for a far broader range of ills everything from heart disease to memory impairment despite scant evidence it works and potentially dangerous side effects.
Broader effects could follow.
