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Are there effective small intervals in which primes are dense?

As mentioned in Terry Tao's comment to this question, it is constructively known
that there are primes between sufficiently large cubes. $\:$ According to wikipedia,
"there exists a constant $\: \theta < 1 \:$ such that $\;\;\; \pi \hspace{-0.03 in}\left(x\hspace{-0.04 in}+\hspace{-0.04 in}x^{\hspace{.02 in}\theta}\right)-\pi \hspace{.03 in}(x) \: \sim \: \dfrac{x^{\hspace{.02 in}\theta}}{\log(x)} \;\;\;$ as $x$ tends to infinity".

Is there any somewhat-similar corresponding effective result for the density of primes in short intervals?

Motivation:
Such a result could yield an effective randomized reduction from subset sum to this variant of factoring.

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