"subtle triggers" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is generally used to refer to something that causes a response, either emotional or physical, without the subject being aware of it. For example, "The music had subtle triggers that tapped into my deepest emotions."
Eventually, as we weave technology into every aspect of the human condition, personal tech will do what we want and need it to, in context, with the slightest and most subtle of triggers, and very little physical or cognitive distraction.
The net effect being that every one of us, when presented with someone else's "real life" would experience a subtle pang, triggering a mini memory.
Researchers have found that a high-salt diet triggers subtle biochemical changes that can fatally throw off the heart's rhythm in rats with high blood pressure.
Depending on the ventilator capabilities and observations made of how the patient and ventilator do together, more subtle settings concerning triggers, initial flow, and inspiratory time limit could be tried.
I have to be completely focused on this front sight and I have to be so subtle on the trigger that I'm not thinking about the trigger.
If you let subtle physical findings trigger your suspicions, you are going to be wrong more often than you are right.
Thus subtle feedback responses triggered by changes in chromatin configurations impinge selectively on linker histone mobility and its expression.
However, even among this small sample of interviewed GPs, there was significant variation in the other, subtler, types of triggers that would warrant a referral.
Instead, we can postulate that the degree of aggressiveness of the disease might trigger subtle changes in expression in the biological functions represented by these modules.
In addition, alterations in temperature may increase stiffness in the joints and may trigger subtle movements that can heighten a nociceptive response [ 6, 9].
An automated closed-loop method of subtle acoustic interference triggered by slow oscillations indeed attenuated slow-wave power (M ± SEM = 4.5 ± 1.5%, P = 0.002) and increased alpha-power (M ± SEM = 18.6 ± 4.4%, P < 0.001), without affecting sleep efficiency, sleep duration, the number of sleep state transitions or the time spent in sleep stages 2 4 (Van Der Werf et al., 2009).
