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The referendum will not declare an independent state, but rather determine whether Kurdistan will remain part of Iraq or eventually become independent, though there are hard-liners in Kurdistan pushing for a "divorce" from Baghdad.

Accordingly, scholars contend that while genetic factors are important, they do not operate in isolation, but rather determine resilience/vulnerability jointly with a number of other variables, including environmental characteristics [ 53].

Furthermore, we reveal that in this context NonO and SFPQ are not classical transcriptional regulators of RP gene expression, but rather determine the positioning of the transcriptional machinery on RP gene promoters.

A number of factors influence the renal tubular reabsorption of Pi, such as dietary phosphorus content, and parathyroid hormone (PTH), growth hormone (insulin-like growth factor 1) and thyroid hormone concentrations, although these latter two hormones probably do not play a major role in the short-term control of serum Pi concentrations, but, rather, determine long-term concentrations.

The doctrine of retroactivity does not modify the substantive scope of the constitutional decision but rather determines the point in time when it is held to apply.

Indo-Aryan ergativity is aspectually conditioned: the transitive subject, if marked, is marked only in perfective clauses, and verb agreement in most (but not all) such cases, is not with the subject but rather determined by case-marking on the direct object.

In an interview more than a decade ago he noted: "The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

These observations suggest that the insensitivity of human normal liver cells to Lexa and CHX combination treatment is not controlled by death receptor 5 (DR5) expression level on the cellular membrane, but rather determined by the expression levels of intracellular pro-apoptotic proteins, including Bax, Bak, and Bid.

In the CBT, visit schedule (at least once a week) was not dictated by the trial protocol but rather determined by the visiting nurse.

The necessary combination of voxel- and cluster-level thresholds is not assumed from theory but rather determined by direct permutation for each data set.

However, if the glycocalyceal volume is not fixed, but rather determined by osmotic water movements, then there must also be an osmotic equilibrium at steady state.