The phrase "a more proximate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that is closer in time, space, or relationship compared to something else.
Example: "In this study, we will focus on a more proximate cause of the observed phenomenon."
Alternatives: "a closer" or "a nearer".
It shows that decision quality may provide a more proximate outcome measure of the strategy process, which can be less biased from environmental developments that cannot be influenced by the organization itself (Forbes 2007).
A more proximate determinant – the timing of births – is also likely to influence whether individuals achieve childbearing intentions (Morgan and Rackin 2010).
These results are anomalous because these genera have been allied with extinct taxa from North America, suggesting a more proximate origin for these lineages [ 91, 92].
while body weight is a more proximate determinant of the actual bone mass (Iqbal et al 1999; Adami et al 2004).
Although predisposing characteristics have only been found to have a moderate effect on of ERVH, in this palliative population they are a more proximate predictor.
On a more proximate level, recombination of syllables might be restricted by the song learning process as sequential information might be included in this process as already shown for nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos [ 30, 31]).
In premodern times, when death was a far more proximate inevitability than it can seem to be today, cherishing the prospect of celestial transcendence might well provide relief from quotidian suffering — even more so than harboring the hope of learning to skydive buoys the bored individual of today.
Although habitat quality usually is understood from a multidimensional niche space approach, the availability of foraging substrates can be a suitable and more proximate index of habitat quality for species with specialized habitat requirements, like woodpeckers that feed almost exclusively on larvae of wood-boring beetles in the trunks and branches of infested trees.
SES is a proxy for more proximate variables associated with cholera etiology such as availability of clean water and the sanitation environment.
If we use a time frame more proximate to the ICU admission and application of ICU therapy, we may have greater sensitivity and power to detect treatment effects compared to later outcome assessments.
Environmental conditions may influence a variety of more proximate risk factors, including perceived stressors, health-related behaviors, social integration and support, and psychosocial responses to stressors (arrows 4 and 5).
