There is some preliminary research to indicate that biological factors may play a part, but at present the evidence – which we review in our book The Stressed Sex – is far stronger for the influence of life events.
So far, the strongest influence comes from a gene called APOE, for apolipoprotein E. Everybody inherits two copies, and each copy can come in one of three types, e2, e3 or e4.
If nuclear weapons had been by far the strongest influence on politics in the postwar period, television — the most powerful machine for the establishment of images ever devised — had certainly been the second-strongest.
And two years in, when they have gained in experience and confidence, they should get that notebook out and start changing those things".Almost all education-policy documents and research papers these days start with a reminder that a child's family background is by far the strongest influence on his educational achievement.
Within the experimental space explored, the level of talc had by far the strongest influence; increasing talc level led to a proportional increase in rate of carbonyl growth.
Thus far the strongest influence of young people is reported in the areas of education policy, health policy, social systems / child rights and state planning.
Weather parameters far away from origo have stronger influence on included genes.
The rap influence is far stronger on the pulsing On Top, where the plaintive melancholy of Streten's beats underpins New York rapper T Shirt's taped braggadocio.
However, when re-entering the galactic disc as it does every 20 25 million years it comes under the influence of the far stronger "disc tides", which, according to mathematical models, increase the flux of Oort cloud comets into the inner Solar System by a factor of 4, thus leading to a massive increase in the likelihood of a devastating comet impact.
The influence of temperature is by far stronger than the one of time.
