salient factor

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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.
These changes in salient factors can, in turn, lead to significant reinterpretations of policy needs and, therefore, to major alterations in policy.
There is no simple explanation for this triumph, but a number of salient factors can be elucidated.
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.
Cultural values and attitudes have emerged as salient factors in the identification and intervention of cases.
Consistent with our argument, regime type and the extent of fragmentation within the national government are especially salient factors.
Information on salient factors for adoption can therefore be found in the probit analysis of the open-ended answers.
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.
Within a larger sample, these salient factors may prove to be more powerful predictors of behavior problems and related outcomes.
The identification of salient factors of risk and resilience among this population is critical to developing effective intervention and mental health maintenance programmes.
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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