As Miami's public research university, competition to enroll at FIU has heightened as more students apply each year.
The increasing interest in linking reproductive health and HIV has heightened the need for research exploring relationships between unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion and HIV.
Specifically, widespread ARV medications use has heightened our awareness of mitochondrial toxicity, oxidative stress, and metabolic abnormalities and stimulated more research into the related cognitive consequences.
The global obesity epidemic has heightened the need for an improved understanding of how body weight is controlled, and research using mouse models is critical to this effort.
Now, the furor over executive pay has heightened the profile of compensation committees, says R. William Ide, chairman of the Governance Center at the Conference Board, a private research group.
The one-child policy has heightened competition.
The dismal economy has heightened political discontent.
If anything, she has heightened it.
He added: "Testing has heightened awareness.
The Aug. 26 election has heightened frustrations.
