The overall effect was probably to stimulate more party activity in the communal elections than might have otherwise taken place.

Early treatment and the patients overall health has an effect on prognosis.

Many of the genetic characteristics associated with yield ( e. g., enhanced growth ) are controlled by a large number of genes, each of which has a minimal effect on the overall yield.

Sometimes designers will use one rasterization method on some faces and the other method on others based on the angle at which that face meets other joined faces, thus increasing speed and not hurting the overall effect.

Thus, when ClearType sacrifices color accuracy in order to increase luminance detail, the overall effect — as seen by human eyes — should be an improvement for most people.

Diuretics, which can be used in the forms of medications, supplements, or herbs, reduce overall body weight, but have no effect on an individual's total body fat content.

His comic touches can be thought to intensify the overall tragic effect, and his realism, which often threatens to make his heroes look ridiculous, marks a world of debased heroism: " The loss of intellectual and moral substance becomes a central tragic statement.

The studies noted that it would be impossible to assume conclusively the likely protective effect of the " other sex acts " including oral sex, or that the correlation between these sexual practices was due to the presence of collinearity induced by some other protective factor not noted in the studies: for example, greater overall frequency of sex.

Ambient lighting is known to " flatten " shadows in 3D scenes, making the overall visual effect more bland.

In the 7-color modes, the sprites and backgrounds were given separate color schemes, and in the 10-color modes the sprites were further split into two differently-colored groups ; however, as flat black ( or white ) was a shared fourth color in all but one ( 7-color ) palette, the overall effect was that of 4, 6 or 8 colors.

It was initially assumed the Mendelian inheritance only accounted for large ( qualitative ) differences, such as those seen by Mendel in his pea plants — and the idea of additive effect of ( quantitative ) genes was not realised until R. A. Fisher's ( 1918 ) paper, " The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance " Mendel's overall contribution gave scientists a useful overview that traits were inheritable.

To neutralize the effect of overall market movement, Jones, utilizing trading strategies of his predecessors ' such as Benjamin Graham, balanced his portfolio by buying assets whose price he expected to increase, and selling short assets whose price he expected to decrease.

Market neutral funds have less correlation to overall market performance by " neutralizing " the effect of market swings, whereas directional funds utilize trends and inconsistencies in the market and have greater exposure to the market's fluctuations.

They portrayed overall visual effects instead of details, and used short " broken " brush strokes of mixed and pure unmixed colour — not blended smoothly or shaded, as was customary — to achieve an effect of intense colour vibration.

Some property rights theorists also take a consequentialist view of distributive justice and argue that property rights based justice also has the effect of maximizing the overall wealth of an economic system.

Another measure such as life expectancy at age 5 ( e < sub > 5 </ sub >) can be used to exclude the effect of infant mortality to provide a simple measure of overall mortality rates other than in early childhood — in the hypothetical population above, life expectancy at age 5 would be another 65 years.

The theory is that any action will have such a negligible effect on the overall market demand that an MC firm can act without fear of prompting heightened competition.

Overall, the combined effect of all selection pressures at various levels determines the overall fitness of an individual, and hence the outcome of natural selection.

These additives are often used to enhance the appearance of color of fabric and paper, causing a " whitening " effect, making materials look less yellow by increasing the overall amount of blue light reflected.

In Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese poetry, the visual presentation of finely calligraphed poems has played an important part in the overall effect of many poems.

PEAR founder Robert G. Jahn and his colleague Brenda Dunne say that the effect size in all cases was found to be very small, but consistent across time and experimental designs, resulting in an overall statistical significance.

It analyzed the results of 380 studies ; the authors reported an overall positive effect size that was statistically significant but very small relative to the sample size and could be explained by publication bias.

In a meta-analysis of these experiments published in the British Journal of Psychology in 2004, researchers found that there was a small but significant overall DMILS effect.

It concluded that, although there is a statistically significant overall effect, it is not consistent and relatively few negative studies would cancel it out.

(" Irreversibility " refers to the effect on a single copy of the enzyme ; the effect on the overall human digestive system is reversible, as the enzymes are naturally destroyed and replaced with new copies.

Since 2012 the university is regularly called an elite university in all kinds of German media because the university's overall concept was awarded in the German Universities Excellence Initiative.

The Oprah Winfrey Show has also seen Constantine and Woodall appearing regularly as a makeover and style experts giving fashion advice and guidelines on how to better overall appearances and giving numerous American women fashion makeovers.

Many older ( up to 1970s ) cars also lacked syncro on first gear ( for various reasons-cost, typically " shorter " overall gearing, engines typically having more low-end torque, the extreme wear which would be placed on a frequently used 1st gear synchroniser ...), meaning it also could only be used for moving away from a stop unless the driver became adept at double-declutching and had a particular need to regularly downshift into the lowest gear.

Dredging of the navigation entrance is also undertaken regularly as part of the overall sand bypassing program.

It was noted regularly at the time that Kennison and Glenn had outproduced number one overall pick Keyshawn Johnson.

While millions in France continue to attend religious services regularly, the overall level of observance is considerably lower than in the past.

For others, gameplay — especially when referenced in the term of " basic gameplay " -- refers to certain core game mechanics which determine the overall characteristics of the game itself.

That said, its overall reach is greater than any FM signal in the Bay Area ( according to radio-locator map referenced below ).

In the 2001 NFL Draft, the Falcons orchestrated a trade with the San Diego Chargers, acquiring the first overall pick ( which was used on quarterback Michael Vick ) in exchange for wide receiver / return specialist Tim Dwight and the fifth overall pick ( used on running back LaDainian Tomlinson ).

This allows the sound engineer to use a higher overall volume for the drum kit by reducing the number of " active " mics which could feed back at any one time.

Some aspects to consider in a guitar neck may be the overall width of the fretboard, scale ( distance between the frets ), the neck wood, the type of neck construction ( for example, the neck may be glued in or bolted on ), and the shape ( profile ) of the back of the neck.

Under Tobin, the Colts would go onto draft running back Marshall Faulk with the second overall pick in the 1994 and acquired quarterback Jim Harbaugh as well.

The inaugural season featured many of the players who would lead Jacksonville into the playoffs in the team's next four seasons, including quarterback Mark Brunell ( acquired in a draft day trade from Green Bay ), offensive lineman Tony Boselli ( drafted with the 2nd pick overall in the 1995 NFL Draft ) running back James Stewart ( also drafted in 1995 ), and wide receiver Jimmy Smith ( signed as a free agent ).

With the first overall selection in the 1961 NFL Draft, the Vikings selected running back Tommy Mason of Tulane.

It represents what early peoples would have worn, i. e. a steers's head as a hat, with the hide hanging down the back to protect the neck from the sun, and overall as a way to instill fear in the enemy.

An actual sail will have an overall efficiency of about 90 %, about 8. 22 μN / m < sup > 2 </ sup >, due to curvature ( billow ), wrinkles, absorbance, re-radiation from front and back, non-specular effects, and other factors.

This serves to taper the back ( and overall body depth ) at its upper end to meet the back of the neck joint flush with its heel.

This means that to calculate the conditional covariance matrix, one inverts the overall covariance matrix, drops the rows and columns corresponding to the variables being conditioned upon, and then inverts back to get the conditional covariance matrix.

Barn-owls overall are darker on the back than the front, usually an orange-brown colour, the front being a paler version of the back or mottled, although there is considerable variation even amongst species.

In June, the Flyers made a trade which sent the first round draft pick they had acquired in the Forsberg trade ( 23rd overall ) back to Nashville for the rights to negotiate with impending unrestricted free agents Kimmo Timonen and Scott Hartnell.

In 2007-08, Carolina again missed out as Washington stormed back to take the division title on the last day of the season, leaving the Hurricanes second in the division and ninth overall in the conference, and making the Canes only the second club in NHL history to miss the playoffs for two seasons running after a Cup triumph.

During the 2009 NBA Draft, the Jazz selected Eric Maynor No. 20 overall to back up Williams.

The Warriors opened the season with six straight losses, but Monta Ellis ' rise, Baron Davis ' solid injury-free season ( 21. 6 points, 8 assists, 4. 6 rebounds per game ), and an overall improvement in chemistry brought the Warriors back in playoff contention.

Playing two 7 cards would make no change overall as the direction is changed then changed back and play continues with a higher card finally placed on top of the 7, all in the same hand.

* C. J. Spiller, running back for the Clemson Tigers football team, 2006 – 2009, 9th overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft ( Buffalo Bills )

The Vega production cars ( Facel FV, later and more famously the HK500 ) appeared in 1954 using Chrysler V8 engines, at first a DeSoto Hemi engine ; the overall engineering was straightforward, with a tubular chassis, double wishbone suspension at the front and a solid driven axle at the back, as in standard American practice.

Never an admirer of General Douglas MacArthur, Bradley was instrumental in convincing Truman to dismiss MacArthur as the overall commander in the Korean theatre after MacArthur resisted administration attempts to scale back strategic objectives in the Korean War.

" Freeway signs in the vicinity were changed to read " Monster Park " as part of an overall signage upgrade to national standards on California highways, but as of 2008, those signs have been changed back to Candlestick Park.

The overall anatomy of the head was said to be brachycephalic to hyperbrachycephalic ( Cranial index: 81-86 ) whereby the condition is caused by both rather high breadth of the head and a medium length of the neurocranium, whose back part is often somewhat flattened ( planoccipital ).

Usually large ; adult males like P. o. phoenicuroides, but darker overall, with black back and rufous-chestnut underside.