There is a quasi-Soviet collectivism about the way the place is organised; as in the 1920s Narkomfin housing project in Moscow, the space allotted to individuals is modest, but the shared spaces of exercise, eating and meeting are generous.
157– 159 Indeed, the magnitude of the weight loss achieved with leptin therapy in most obese individuals was modest compared to expectations, as most obese patients already exhibited elevated circulating levels of leptin as a consequence of their increased fat mass.
"While the increases for individual measures were modest, the greatest behavioural change was when the measures were combined," said Prof Wouter Poortinga of Cardiff University, who led the research.
The overall species distributions in Bangladesh and the other sites combined were significantly different (P =.015), but the absolute differences for individual species were modest.
Among FNRS nutrient components, changes in consumption were modest and individual nutrient intakes showed low to moderate but significant stability.
Gains after mnemonic training were modest and most individuals were unable to improve their performance after training; the authors concluded that in very old age, "biological factors are a prominent source of individual differences in plasticity".
The researchers cautioned against reading too much into the study, and noted that the effects were "modest" at the individual level.
David Berenbaum, chief program officer of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a housing advocacy group, described FHA's proposals as "prudent". "The burden to the individual borrower is modest and should ensure, overall, that borrowers have access to responsible credit," Berenbaum said in a statement.
"The individual measures are modest," said Mr Noonan.
