Sentences with phrase «demand prompt attention»

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On April 15, the kidnapping of 218 Nigerian school girls captured the world's attention, and prompted viral activism as a form of pressure on the Nigerian government; the campaign started on the White House website, on Change.org, and on Facebook, demanding to Bring Back Our Girls.

Though prevailing models of dyslexia ascribe reading difficulties to poor phonological processing, in recent years dyslexia has been increasingly associated with deficits in visual attention (e.g., [15]--[24]-RRB- and poor oculomotor control [25]--[28], prompting a suggestion [5] that e-readers could be configured to reduce demands on visual attention and oculomotor control and thus make reading less of an effort for those impaired.

Christine Hackett, president of Petropics, says this shift in demand was precipitated by the pet - food recalls of 2007, which prompted consumers to pay greater attention to the products they were buying and ultimately changed buying patterns.