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).
Causal responsibility for an event accrues to just the salient metaphysical causes of the event.
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.
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.
We review the literature on common causes of haematuria in postrenal transplant patients and suggest the salient approach to the evaluation of this condition.
Plant use practices in both countries did not closely parallel the top statistical causes of maternal mortality, but highlighted key issues such as menstruation and infertility as salient health concerns for women.
Plants and women's knowledge contribute to the local population's management of the top statistical causes of maternal mortality, but other health conditions such as menstruation and infertility were more salient health concerns.
According to this idea, the increased perceptual complexity of visual search displays containing a salient distractor causes a need for perceptual resolution that completes prior to the deployment of attention.
