In such xenograft studies, the tumor cells of course already exist, and insulin is merely affecting their growth rate.
Furthermore, emigration from more agriculturally-dependent countries appears to be related to changes in temperature only, while less agricultural countries are merely affected by precipitation changes when it comes to emigration.
By contrast with Control, CH heart bioenergetics was merely affected by the hypoxic insult.
Although a three times repeated DNA extraction increased the total amount of extracted DNA, microbial fingerprints were merely affected.
Although a 3 times repeated DNA extraction increased the total amount of extracted DNA, microbial fingerprints were merely affected until the 5th extraction.
For everyone else — that is, those merely affected by climate change — the threat is (at least for now) largely diffuse or abstract.
Second, sexual risk-taking is not merely affected by broad and generic social norms; it is produced (among other things) by specific, harmful gender norms that predominate in many of the high-prevalence communities in the country (27).
Compared to the commitment of land, time, money, and will that such a full-scale memorial would require, the existing one is merely symbolic, an affecting ersatz; Eisenman's display is not just a symbol, but a symbol of a symbol.
Where some action is merely stimulated or influenced by something, "affect" is used.
It may not significantly affect the conclusion since it is merely a practical problem.
