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.

The team with the best overall record in the major leagues, the Cincinnati Reds, failed to win their division in either half of that season and were controversially excluded, as were the St. Louis Cardinals, who finished with the NL's second-best record.

During his career with the Panthers, Capers finished with an overall record of 31 – 35 ( including the playoffs ) and one division title.

The Astros finished 61 – 49 overall, which would have been third in the division behind the Reds and the Dodgers.

There are many similarities-both in overall functionality and in the division of functionality into the three component chips-between the OCS chipset and the much earlier and simpler chipset of the Atari 8-bit family of home computers, consisting of the ANTIC, GTIA and POKEY chips ; both chipsets were conceptually designed by Jay Miner, which explains the similarity.

More systematic and more efficient ( but also more formalised and more rule-based, and more removed from an overall holistic picture of what division is achieving ), a person who knows the multiplication tables can divide two integers using pencil and paper using the method of short division, if the divisor is simple.

A floating-point multiplication took ten cycles, a division took 29, and the overall performance, taking into account memory delays and other issues, was about 3 MFLOPS.

The division winners in each half qualified for the post-season, though if a team were to win both halves, the team with the best overall record, regardless of division, qualified as a wild card.

* 2005: Hans Bekx almost finished second overall in the truck division, before being removed from the competition because of an irregularity, much to the surprise of the ( mostly Dutch ) fans.

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.

They won the Pacific Division by 24 points, their third consecutive division title, second consecutive President's trophy, Jennings Trophy as the league's top defensive team, and were awarded the # 1 overall seed in the 1999 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

" The division of the game into four years was a way of breaking the game's overall puzzle into four discrete sections.

* In 2004 they were champions of the south division, and got second overall in the LNBP

Meanwhile, under the overall command of Marshal Lannes, Lannes ' Provisional Corps, the VII ( Württemberg ) Corps, a division from VII Corps and two cuirassier divisions ( App.

The second managerial division, called the Management division, was responsible for maintaining the overall mission of the INS throughout its many offices and providing administrative services to these offices.

* When the failure of the project is of minimal overall consequence to the firm, regardless of the local impact on the managed division.

From 1999 to 2005, the Rock finished either first overall or first in their division every year, winning five championships.

The group tied for 5th overall in the division.

They captured the Gauliga Südwest / Staffel Saarpfalz title, but lost the overall division title to Staffel Mainhessen winners Kickers Offenbach.

The next season saw the Americans fall even further from grace by finishing last in their division ( ninth overall ) with a record of 11-27-6, while the Rangers captured the Stanley Cup in only their second year of existence.

The next season saw the Americans plunge to fifth place in the division ( ninth overall ).