Indeed, given the worrying nature of reports last November of a crackdown on free speech at the university, some might even see the latest debate as a bit of a smokescreen, aimed at obscuring other, slightly larger matters effecting China right now.
The size-matters effect seemed to show up in a much less rigorous bit of research conducted at my TierneyLab blog with the help of Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico.
In face-to-face therapy, Hames says, "there's some kind of dark-matter effect that people really like, and that has a really positive effect on outcomes".
The size of this "matter effect" (akin to the way photons of light are refracted as they pass through glass) will let physicists determine the ordering of neutrino masses and, just possibly, why there is any matter to begin with.Jan Piotrowski: online science editor, The Economist.
Nevertheless, an enhancement in the event rate, due to matter effect, is present, and it can be interpreted as a naive neutrino radiography of superficial geological structures.
It allows us to have relatively large CP violating measure ΔP≡P νμ→νe)−P(ν̄μ→ν̄e) which is essentially free from matter effect contamination.
It is based on a two steps technique, already developed for studying the matter effect for the neutrino detection (Miele et al., 2006) at the Pierre Auger observatory in South America (http://www.auger.org/) and the optimal configuration of the NEMO neutrino observatory in the Mediterranean Sea (http://nemoweb.lns.infn.it/project.htm).htm
Call it a "white lives matter" effect.
Women had a 2% larger proportion of gray matter (effect size of 0.98) and a 1% smaller proportion of white matter than men (effect size of 0.78).
In addition, particulate matter effect estimates for long-term studies on mortality have differed among studies, and an explanation for this might be differences in the chemical composition of particulate matter (Hoek et al. 2013).
