Sentence examples for salient cause of from inspiring English sources

The reduction in fracture risk associated with use of hormone therapy is comparable to that from bisphosphonate drugs, and its use addresses the most salient cause of this disease that so disproportionately affects older women: loss of estrogen.

However, both at the global level (Lambin and Meyfroidt 2011; Mace et al. 2005) and more specifically in Kenyan and other East African rangelands (Western et al. 2009), habitat loss is increasingly emerging as the most salient cause of species decline.

-- that "the salient cause of [Sotomayor's] career has been advancing persons of color, over whites, based on race and national origin".

'The cause', relative to a given context, simply refers to something like the most salient cause at the context, just like 'the dog' refers to something like the most salient dog at the context; that is all a matter of what 'the' means and nothing at all to do with causation, or with dogs for that matter).

The causal attribution is unequivocal and fully consistent with the shared cultural model of health and illness in which wind is a salient external cause of disease.

Thus, the addition of a new sound to the scene should be especially salient, causing participants to make fewer errors in the addition than in the removal condition.

Causal responsibility for an event accrues to just the salient metaphysical causes of the event.

Shifts in another agent's gaze direction are both behaviorally salient and cause involuntary orienting of attention toward the gazed-at location (Friesen and Kingstone 1998; Driver et al. 1999; Langton and Bruce 1999).

Salient to our subsequent operationalization of potential suicide misclassification, they operationalized possible suicides as subjects whose underlying cause of death was officially classified as injury of undetermined intent.

The physical disability was mentioned as the cause of the distress, although the psychosocial reality was emphasized in the narrative, making it more salient than the physical disability.

Pneumonia remains a leading cause of death among children less than 5 years old in developing countries, and continues to be a salient public health problem in Vietnam.