For example, modest extensions of the theorem provide a spectrum of necessary conditions dynamic statistical models that will be useful in empirical studies.
With the seemingly modest extension of the "wait time" after a question to ∼3 5 s, Rowe and colleagues showed dramatic effects: substantially more students willing to volunteer answers, fewer students unwilling to share when called on, and increases in the length and complexity of the responses that students gave in response to the question (Rowe, 1974, 1978; Allen and Tanner, 2002).
Importantly, when Zmpste24-null mice were fed with sodium butyrate, a modest extension of life span and amelioration of premature aging phenotypes was observed, suggesting that HDAC inhibition might have a therapeutic potential.
The bank's officials have argued, in increasingly hysterical tones, that any tampering with Greek debt, even a modest extension of maturities, would be a catastrophe.
Now, amid fears of deflation, soaring unemployment, plummeting stock prices and deep consumer anxiety, lawmakers are leaving town having approved only a modest extension of jobless benefits.
Last month in a radio address, Mr. Bush favored a modest extension of the benefits that would be retroactive, acting only after Congress had left for the year.
But critics say the plan lacks imagination and is a modest extension of what Brazil has already been doing.
Surprisingly, only a modest extension of ischemic time to 90 minutes produced a marked increase in muscle injury following reperfusion.
Modest extension of the simulations would not solve the problem.
In such circumstances, the benefit of such 'starvation' diets, involving repeated fasting and prolonged undernourishment, was relatively short-lived, providing only a modest extension of life [ 4].
