But an even more immediate factor in this strike seems to be the engineers' perception that the company is trying to play hardball with them while, the engineers say, it basically gave in with its settlement with the machinists' union.
But these more immediate factors are entrenched in a wider social and cultural setting integrated with the more traditional disease models that focus on biologic response as a function solely of host characteristics (Diez Roux 2004).
The global economy remains fragile, and a global recession could be sparked by any number of more immediate factors.
But it hard to see beyond the more immediate factors of desertification, prolonged droughts and land restriction.
Efforts should thus be made to provide for sufficient genetic diversity, but not at the expense of more immediate factors that influence successful recovery.
It is likely that there were individual differences in the ability to assign meaning to the different call sequences used as playback stimuli, either due to individual differences in knowledge or other more immediate factors, such as receiver attention or motivation during the trials.
Conceivably, decisions are then likely to be based on more immediate factors such as the occupancy status and owners of neighbouring boxes.
In addition to general causal factors, the opportunities for poverty reduction may be limited due to more immediate factors, such as stigma, and lack of access to rehabilitation services, assistive technology, and physically and cognitively accessible facilities (3, 49).
Individual factors have a more immediate influence on the geographical distribution of health personnel, whereas factors linked to the organizational and community environment have an intermediary influence between the broader environmental factors and individual decisions.
But a more immediate objection is that it would never work; the link between genetic and neurological factors is nowhere near strong enough.
