Known sometimes as the "birthdate effect" or "relative age effect", this generally diminishes as children get older but does not vanish.
"With this data now available from more than one study, it really becomes the responsibility of parents, physicians, and teachers to pay attention to the relative-age effect and not intervene with treatment and labeling of children who it's no fault of their own what time of year they were born, " Garland says.
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Series like Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Resident Evil and Dead Space have gone through identity crises in an attempt to appeal to a lower common denominator of gamers.
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When in control of either character, you can pause combat and assign a queue of attacks for both of them using a weapon wheel (think Dragon Age or Mass Effect).
Social conservatives were outraged by the FDA's move to lower the age limits for Plan B as well as the possibility that Korman's ruling might take effect and lift age restrictions altogether.
Congress rejected this 1937 proposal and turned against further New Deal measures, but not before the Social Security Act creating old-age pensions went into effect.
Again, Mass Effect and Dragon Age Origins allow players to do this as do the Batman Arkham games.
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So a new Dragon Age and a new Mass Effect on the way, and a wide array of fans some of whom are excited and others deeply skeptical.
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The two former doctors founded Bioware in 1995, and developed iconic titles like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and most recently, Star Wars: The Old Republic (an MMO).
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Both Disneyland and Disneyworld have the rare effect of touching all age groups significantly.
As a result, Britain's coppers are wondering whether one side-effect of the information age is going to be an upsurge of civil disobedience.
Criticism sparked around the release of Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age 2 from Bioware, as fans of the originals complained of simplification and streamlining.
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Whatever controversy dogged the company with Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2, Bioware has had a profound impact on the ascendance of Western RPGs.
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Ursin's group found that breast-feeding cancels out the effect of delaying childbirth past the age of 25 the average age of first birth in the United States these days.
Illicit trade is age-old, a continuous facet and side effect of market economies or of commerce in general.
Even ordinary running will create the effect potentially causing you to age hundreds of picoseconds more slowly than your neighbors.
In effect this corporate system is just another age-old, historically time-worn effort to cement the power of a small group of elites.
Among them are Dead Space, Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2, Need For Speed Shift, Mass Effect 1 and 2, Sim City 4, Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Mirror's Edge.
She argued that any "sister effect" would wear off as the age gap increased because the siblings would be on "different life trajectories", whereas those of similar ages would have similar social circles.
Starting his entrepreneurial career at age 19, Chris now serves as CEO of Spread Effect, a leading content marketing and publishing company.
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That would be South Korea, where gaming addiction is a serious problem among youths, so much so that last year a ban went into effect which does not allow kids under the age of 16 to game online between 12 AM and 6 AM in order to force them to get some sleep.
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The protective effect of aspirin appeared to be consistent regardless of age, sex, race or country of origin.
Changes to housing benefit affecting working-age social housing tenants deemed to have spare bedrooms came into effect on 1 April.
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Ms. MEYERS: The pipeline effect is a concept where we approached children at the early age, kindergarten.
Convinced of his ugliness from an early age, he ignored and abused his body, to no obvious ill effect.
To bring corporate practices into line, a law passed in 2004 takes effect in April requiring companies to raise the minimum mandatory retirement age to 65 by 2013 or, if that is not feasible, to provide employment until they are eligible for the fixed part of the state pension.
Meanwhile, Mexico's age-old linkage to the United States' economy is already having an effect.
When they looked at correlations between a man's income and his height at the ages of seven, 11 and 16, as well as his adult height, Dr Persico and his colleagues found that all of the effect of height on income was actually attributable to height at the age of 16.
In effect, the company wants to turn Twitter into a kind of Internet age alternative to traditional press release services like BusinessWire and PR Newswire.
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Pal Suren, the lead author of the Norwegian study, says that no adjustments for parental age or other factors seemed to make a big difference in the size of the effect.
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