Sentence examples for competing determinants from inspiring English sources

Iowa's congressional delegation will die in the last ditch for ethanol subsidies because ethanol subsidies are very popular with Iowa's voters, not because Big Agra cuts fat checks to Tom Harkin and Chuck Grassley.Because, other things equal, public opinion swamps most competing determinants of policy, Mr Lessig's fixation on campaign finance seems a bit of a distraction.

Relative concentrations of antagonizing or competing SFs are important determinants in alternative splicing regulation.

Determine competing events.

Our objective was to examine older adults' attitudes towards ICD implantation in the context of competing health risks, exploring the determinants of ICD decision-making among a group of patients who had faced the decision in the past.

We limited the study to ICUs with high-intensity daytime staffing, for which nighttime intensivist staffing does not affect mortality [ 8], to eliminate the competing risk of death as a determinant of length of stay.

Comparison of trapping forces for latex and gold spheres demonstrates that the gradient force is the major determinant of trapping strength and that competing effects, such as scattering or radiometric forces, are relatively minor.

In sensitivity analyses, patients' competing risk for nonarrhythmic death was the primary determinant of benefit from ICD implantation.

Competing risk models will be estimated to investigate whether the determinants of repartnering differ by the type of the repartnering event (i.e. cohabitation versus marriage).

In car-oriented cities, commuting by private motor vehicle allows access to employment and training (crucial social determinants of health) while enabling households to manage competing responsibilities.

Balancing those competing interests is a challenge because area size is an important determinant of LI.

This paper reviews the wide range of competing explanations in the literature and argues that, setting aside deeper social and political determinants, the various economic mechanisms in play defy the idea of a monocausal explanation.