Common sense would suggest a straightforward correlation between higher speed limits and the risk of accidents, but common sense also suggests -- out West, at least -- that when there's nothing to have an accident with, it's not momentum that matters but simple alertness.
Thereafter, antistress effects were not replicated, but increased alertness was observed following the cognitive stressor test [ 25] and acute social stress test [ 26], which was suspected to be induced by greater cerebral activity following the chewing of gum [ 27].
But Kirkland's alertness and safe handling spread confidence throughout the team.
But for the alertness of David Laws, Lib Dem education spokesman, he would have got away with it.
This sort of culinary thrill-seeking was epidemic back in the nineties; the intent was sensual alertness, but too often the result was indigestion.
Whenever he stood at an exit point, the spot from which you jump, his overriding sensation was not terror but a supersensory alertness.
The idea is that, as people work longer and harder hours, they will want drinks that boost energy and mental alertness but don't leave the unpleasant aftertaste or stale smell of coffee.
Both drugs caused similar decreases in alertness, but the orexin blocker lasted twice as long.
Caffeine is a drug that can heighten alertness, but coffee drinking is a social practice outside the biomedical sphere.
The different patterns of top-down effects on CTE compared with TAE are consistent with these two types of adaptation taking place at different levels along the visual hierarchy: CTE occurs at very low-levels, where activity is affected by alertness but not by spatial attention, whereas TAE occurs at subsequent stages, which are modulated by selective attention.
