And while acknowledging that students who study abroad are often a fearless lot, Dr. Scheid said the increase was at least partly driven by students' heightened desire to learn more about the world around them.
This "adaptive workaround" (Eastwick 2009) may have been driven by the heightened importance over generations of human evolution of paternal investment in offspring with increasingly large and more complex cerebrums.
Now, driven by mounting fuel costs, heightened sensitivities to climate change, and rising worries over indoor air quality, the race is on to reform housing for better environmental performance.
This finding is consistent with previous reports demonstrating that activity in the visual cortex is particularly robust during the presentation of emotionally arousing visual stimuli, perhaps due to re-entrant enhancement of V2 activity being driven by motivational processes that heighten input from the amygdala.
This in large part explains why traditional pain drugs that directly target neuronal cells do not completely quiet persistent pain messages – because the neurons' heightened sensitivity is also driven by microglia.
A regional unconformity in the foreland basin in the Oligocene to Early Miocene reflects both uplift driven by slab breakoff and the strengthening monsoon that heightened erosion rates and reduced the orogenic load on the subducting plate.
It is possible in our study that enhanced GPi activity to angry faces in VSTM might reflect heightened attention to angry faces, driven by the saliency of potential threat.
Deforestation and agricultural intensification also heightens malaria risk while ocean warming, driven by the vast amounts of heat being sucked up by the oceans, can cause toxic algal blooms that can lead to infections in humans.
Advocates say the increase is being driven by fears of gang violence at home — fears that outweigh heightened concerns about deportation under the Trump administration.
The recent and dramatic increase in demand for mobile data communication, driven by consumer devices such as smartphones and tablets, is resulting in heightened technical challenges for the wireless infrastructure that lies as a bridge in-between these mobile terminals and the wired network transferring the data between final users.
