Sentence examples for heightened relative from inspiring English sources

Also note that responses to predictable sequences are heightened relative to responses to static S1 faces.

In each of these regions, adolescent responses during reward and neutral trials were heightened relative to the adults (Fig. 5).

The level of sweetness most preferred by children has remained heightened relative to adults for nearly a decade, despite reductions in sugar, both consumed and in the food environment.

Several compounds were identified with significantly heightened activities relative to the lead compounds, and new structure activity relationships (SARs) were delineated.

Drivers who tested positive for both alcohol and drugs were at substantially heightened risk relative to those using neither alcohol nor drugs (Odds Ratio = 23.24; 95% CI: 17.79, 30.28).

It is particularly important for children because of their heightened vulnerability relative to adults and the role that social protection can play in ensuring adequate nutrition and overcoming barriers of access to basic social services (education, health, water and sanitation) by the poorest.

The role of immature granule cells might contrast with that of mature cells; immature cells show heightened excitability relative to mature cells during a brief time window, meaning that multiple exposures to the same or similar environments could activate the same population of immature cells if the exposures occur within this period.

In the case of those respondents who were describing emotions about a pregnancy after prior loss, evidence suggests that 'pregnancies following perinatal loss involve heightened anxiety relative to first pregnancies' (Geller et al., 2004: 40) and a risk that a subsequent loss may be higher (Cramer and Wise, 2000).

The ability of pigs to scavenge such material increases vastly when they are allowed to free range, heightening the relative risk of infection in comparison to confined pigs.

At relatively low levels of previous emotional neglect, val carriers had heightened amygdala reactivity relative to iso homozygotes.These results suggest that relatively greater amygdala reactivity may represent a biological mechanism through which childhood adversity and functional genetic variation in HPA axis responsiveness to stress may mediate risk for psychopathology.

The time-sequence of profile data was used to construct digital elevation models (DEMs); a method designed for this study to achieve heightened spatial accuracy relative to two-dimensional profile comparisons that often ignore measurement inconsistency.