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- noun Plural form of
efficacy .
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Examples
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As a result, there are a lot of different methods of weight-loss with varying efficacies for any individual.
Matthew Yglesias » Health Scares Reduce Smoking, But Not Obeisity 2009
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To simply contemplate the myriad factors affecting just one person's encounter with disease — for example, his or her personal character, the belief systems of the period, the efficacies of the current medical system, the severity and length of illness, access to medical care, and the level of the individual's material life — would probably be enough to discourage even the most ambitious historian, even if she could uncover enough evidence.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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From Writers Bloc: Nora Ephron, in her new book, "I Remember Nothing," reflects on issues women care about a lot: email, big decisions about men, the efficacies of chicken soup, money, and so much more.
Nora Ephron On 'I Remember Nothing' At Writers Bloc Huffington Post 2010
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From Writers Bloc: Nora Ephron, in her new book, "I Remember Nothing," reflects on issues women care about a lot: email, big decisions about men, the efficacies of chicken soup, money, and so much more.
Nora Ephron On 'I Remember Nothing' At Writers Bloc Huffington Post 2010
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It's the same issue with to choose two separate ongoing studies research into homeopathic treatments efficacies, and autism/vaccine supposed links: Many studies just don't have large numbers, so the researchers do what they can.
Does sugar make kids hyper? Ann Althouse 2009
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It takes a very nuanced system to assess treatment efficacies, assess patient preferences, assign weighting factors, and determine the best option.
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Although it is irresponsible to claim, as allopathic doctors often do, that there is a singular remedy for a generic disease, many herbal medicines for cancer treatment are non-toxic and have profound scientific substantiation for their efficacies in the medical literature.
F.D.A. Takes Aim at Herbal Cancer ‘Cures’ - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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That these two are different will easily be clear to anyone who passes in review their respective efficacies.
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But though we are not without ideas of these primary qualities of bodies in general, yet not knowing what is the particular bulk, figure, and motion, of the greatest part of the bodies of the universe, we are ignorant of the several powers, efficacies, and ways of operation, whereby the effects which we daily see are produced.
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I am curious why the difference between Hansen en your real weight of efficacies of the different forcings
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