As a metaphor, the butterfly effect has come to signify a series of seemingly trivial and unrelated events that collectively have a massive impact later, whether in causing storms or influencing the stock market.
Barnosky and graduate students Emily Lindsey and Natalia Villavicencio hypothesize that if human impacts were significant in causing extinctions, then the last records for taxa should be found only after humans arrived on the continent, and that the geographic pattern of extinction should follow the sequence of human colonization and population increase in different regions.
Clearly the peak-time retail electricity price rises after the system reform, but the impact of the reform in causing a drop in the off-peak retail price is more significant than its influence on peak-time prices.
Insight into the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure (3D) of a gene product is a key component in determining the impact of a mutation in causing disease.
Reacting to the ONS report, David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce said that despite the small increase, "the impact of low oil prices will have a noticeable impact in coming months, causing inflation to drop".
Ralph J. Brodd, a battery consultant in Henderson, Nev., said after the Oct. 1 fire that the shielding might not have been strong enough to prevent the impact from causing a short in the battery.
8) We computed the ratio of n q x, B Y − b c / n q x, B Y τ, which measures the impact in all-cause mortality of removing deaths from breast cancer at different birth cohorts and ages.
This indicates that island-type geographical areas have intrinsic differences from continental areas, both in climate impact and in causes of HFMD.
Then, an impact event occurred, causing collapses in photosynthesis-based food chains, both in the already-stressed terrestrial food chains and in the marine food chains.
The Israeli defence minister added that while oil and banking sanctions have clearly had an impact, causing inflation in Iran to nearly double to 21.5% in urban areas, he doubted they would be enough to force Tehran's hand.
