European matters are also rising in salience.
At the same time, issues like welfare reform and immigration have risen in salience, but the Tories' advantage on them has fallen.
It has been deferred upwards to the European Union and the World Trade Organisation; shunted down to the devolved government of Scotland, the London mayoralty and the judges; displaced into the internet, and the currency and commodity markets; dispersed around the world as climate change, migration and terrorism have risen in salience.
The very notions of a "decade of the epigenome" (Martens et al, 2011) or even of an "era of epigenetics" (Hurd, 2010) reveal how rapidly epigenetics has been rising to that level of salience, in both scientific and societal imaginary, that warrants the dedication of defined timescales in public attention and investment.
According to our findings, collocation behavior emerges first, which leads to increases in communication behavior, which then leads to a contact rising up high enough in the cognitive salience hierarchy to be mentioned as a significant tie in a network survey.
I have nothing against her; but I do have something very strongly against the salience and influence of the credit ratings culture in which she is a rising spear-carrier.
We argue that the peak of the rising tone is normally delayed onto the initial portion of the following tone, but that this peak delay lacks acoustic and perceptual salience when this following tone is a level tone.
It will be interesting to see whether the salience of crime rises following the recent terrorism in Woolwich, the first death from terrorism on the British mainland since the bus and Tube attacks of July 2005.That event may also provide a further boost to concern about immigration which, at 34%, is at its highest level in three years (it reached 38% in the month that David Cameron took office).
Votes rest on it: until the economic crisis, crime was the hottest issue in opinion polls, and it may well rise again as the economy heals.Crime's salience with voters feels ancient but is actually new: until the 1970s it hardly featured in elections, and it was only when Mr Blair began to fight the Tories for the territory that headlines proliferated.
Tversky et al. suggest – among others – salience: "it is a common experience that the subjective probability of traffic accidents rises temporarily when one sees a car overturned by the side of the road" [ 22].
