salient factor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsalientandfactor
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salient
adjective
uk/ˈseɪ.li.ənt/us/ˈseɪ.li.ənt/
The salient facts about something or qualities of something are the most important things ...
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factor
noun[C]
uk/ˈfæk.tər/us/ˈfæk.tɚ/
a fact or situation that influences the result ...
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(Definition ofsalientandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Concurrent experiences of the young men may be asalientfactorfor the desistance and persistence of depressive symptoms.
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These findings indicate that the timing of maltreatment is asalientfactorin examining the developmental effects of physical harm.
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In particular, word frequency emerged as the mostsalientfactorin promoting productive sound change, whereas dense neighbourhood structure appeared to be most restrictive.
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That subject type should be the mostsalientfactorin relation to use of plural verbal -s merely confirms what we would expect from reading the literature.
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Because what is thesalientfactorof the present situation?
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Other cases reveal that a father or stepfather's jealousy of the child is asalientfactorin the motivation of the cruelty.
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The main andsalientfactoris that the waiting list has declined considerably over the last few years.
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Thesalientfactoris the planning pattern.
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One can use a standard definition based on income, but this may miss several salient factors, such as length of time in poverty and employment.
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These changes in salient factors can, in turn, lead to significant reinterpretations of policy needs and, therefore, to major alterations in policy.
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There is no simple explanation for this triumph, but a number of salient factors can be elucidated.
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That is, when socially salient factors, such as the recognition of new dialect norms, come into play, they may prevail over such phonetically driven constraints.
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Cultural values and attitudes have emerged as salient factors in the identification and intervention of cases.
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Consistent with our argument, regime type and the extent of fragmentation within the national government are especially salient factors.
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Information on salient factors for adoption can therefore be found in the probit analysis of the open-ended answers.
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The political level's taking effectively into account all such salient factors is equivalent to its being organized as the politicalregime appropriate to the mode.
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Within a larger sample, these salient factors may prove to be more powerful predictors of behavior problems and related outcomes.
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The identification of salient factors of risk and resilience among this population is critical to developing effective intervention and mental health maintenance programmes.
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Now the most salient factors of any mode of production are the particular forms and the particular stakes of the class struggle specific to it.
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