The analysis on the da/dN−ΔK curve shows that the decrease in ΔK is an important factor, although not the sole factor, contributing to the crack growth deceleration near the boundary of the unbonded zone.
It is an important (although not the sole) measure of patient illness, since it combines several physiological and chronic health status variables.
Furthermore, although not the sole cause, irrigated urban agriculture may further increase the risk for malaria by providing suitable breeding sites.
Therefore, although not the sole explanation for familial aggregation, genetic factors in addition to environmental influences, do contribute to the development of gout.
Nonetheless, over half (53% at both time points) reported using the diaphragm for both disease and pregnancy prevention (although not necessarily their sole contraceptive method).
The functional studies pointed to myofibroblast enrichment, although not clearly as the sole cause, and neither was a causal relationship between a gene on chromosome 16 in the 6 cM region and differentiation of myofibroblasts established.
The thin sole, although not very protective, will muffle the sound of your footsteps.
The outgoing model, although not bad, was impressively unmemorable, its sole spark of interest emanating from the Hybrid version, in which the driving experience somehow gelled together more, one suspects, by happy accident than by design.
Built in the late 1760s during the Enlightenment, it was intended to host scientific events, although that was not its sole purpose: several weeks after it opened, a 13-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played there.
Although NO is not the sole catalyst of post-traumatic chondrocyte death, it plays a central role [15, 35, 36].
Research on the relationship between malocclusion and mouth breathing suggests that impaired nasal respiration may contribute to the development of increased facial height, anterior open bite, increased overjet, and narrow palate, although it is not the sole or even the major cause of these conditions [11, 24].
