Sentence examples for more powerful determinant from inspiring English sources

In most cases, search costs appear to be the relatively more powerful determinant of market power.

Indeed, the report found, attendance was a more powerful determinant of performance than some more expensive measures, like hiring more certified and experienced teachers and allowing private companies to help manage summer school.

"Supporting this view, a number of recent studies indicate that people's perceptions of social isolation (i.e. how lonely they feel) are a more powerful determinant of well-being than objective social isolation".

In the 1970s, the economist Michael Spence released his work on labor market signaling mechanisms, which emphasized that a prospective employee's credential was often a more powerful determinant of whether an employer would hire him, even if the applicant hadn't yet acquired the relevant knowledge needed for that specific job.

While we cannot exclude the possibility that high-level exercise plays a role in the progression of atherosclerosis, our data suggest that the presence and perhaps undertreatment of traditional atherosclerotic risk factors are a far more powerful determinant of CAD risk.

This result indicates that objective AoA and rated AoA have comparable predicting power for picture naming RTs, which disconfirms the idea that the objective AoA was a more powerful determinant of naming latency than rated AoA (see more in Discussion).

It is uncomfortable to realise that what John Locke called the "law of the club" – actual social attitudes found in people to whom one listens – could be more powerful determinants of behaviour than the directives of morality.

Income and food costs become more powerful determinants of food selection due to wide spread poverty and reliance on social assistance in many Aboriginal communities [ 2].

It therefore remains possible that other, more powerful determinants of the decision to consult were not included in our study and therefore our findings must be interpreted in the context of those chosen attributes and specified levels.

Importantly, we go on to demonstrate that increased expression of caveolin-1 when combined with an increase in the expression of activated component(s) of the AKT/mTOR pathway represents a more powerful prognostic determinant than either caveolin-1 alone or activated AKT/mTOR component(s) alone, and is highly significant in multivariate analysis.

We note that the HIV-infected women may have had adverse life experiences, such as the loss of their partners or family members due to HIV, or may have suffered from stigma, and these factors may be more powerful proximal determinants of differences in CES-D scores than the HIV infection itself.