The phrase "augmented vulnerability" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing increased susceptibility to risks or threats, often in fields like cybersecurity, psychology, or social sciences.
Example: "The recent changes in policy have led to an augmented vulnerability among the community, making them more susceptible to exploitation."
Alternatives: "increased vulnerability" or "enhanced susceptibility".
Given down-regulation of multiple immune functions and processes involved in tissue repair, stress can augment vulnerability of fish to wounding and infections.
Mobile phone data has a great potential for good and our framework allows this data to be augmented with vulnerability and other information at a fraction of the cost.
Although differential exposures have been addressed by Sexton and Hattis (2006), it is important to note that disparities in environmental exposures probably play an important, albeit poorly understood, role in the origins and persistence of health disparities by race and SES, which can be augmented by vulnerabilities.
The rates of TB in specific migrant groups often correspond to those of their countries of origin [ 103, 104], while reactivation risk may increase due to socioeconomic vulnerability augmented by stressful migration conditions [ 105].
Perpetration of GBV may be augmented by new vulnerabilities attributable to displacement: economic and educational disparities, post-traumatic stress following experiences of violent events, loss of social support, changing gender roles, and loss of financial support either through loss of own employment or loss by the husband.
"Double exposure" describes how vulnerability is augmented by having to deal simultaneously with problems from the impacts of global environmental change and economic globalization (Leichenko and O'Brien 2008).
The discordant effects of αSYN inclusion pathology on rates of neuronal loss seen in our study suggest that oligodendroglial αSYN overexpression may augment inherent age-related vulnerability patterns within the murine ANS.
The guards' aggressive action in June came after the mission's defenses and training were strengthened at the recommendation of a small team of Special Forces soldiers who augmented the mission's security force for several weeks in April while assessing the compound's vulnerabilities, American officials said.
Both augmented it considerably.
