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As a verb, to do; to produce; to make; to bring to pass; to execute; enforce; accomplish. As a noun, that which is produced by an agent or cause; result; outcome; consequence. The result that an instrument between parties will produce in their relative rights, or which a statute will produce upon the existing law, as discovered from the language used, the forms employed, or other materials for construing it. The operation of a law, of an agreement, or an act. The phrases take effect, be in force, and go into operation, are used interchangeably. In the plural, a person's effects are the real and Personal Property of someone who has died or who makes a will. EFFECT. The operation of a law, of an agreement, or an act, is called its
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Here we present the overall estimates for each effect modifier obtained in the meta-analysis. To the Medicare program, Alzheimer's represents not only a condition found to be predictive of higher overall costs, but one that also functions as an effect modifier of the relationship between common diseases such as heart disease and stroke and the cost of care. Fat in the diet appears to be an important effect modifier when coupled with exposure to air particulate pollution. |
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