The phrase 'constitutive factor' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to something that helps to constitute or form a whole, like an element that contributes to the formation of a structure or a situation. For example: Time is a constitutive factor of all complicated systems.
A constitutive factor of the emergence of a medieval theory of signs within the context of grammar and logic is the resumption of Augustine's practice of embedding the concept of language into the generic notion of sign.
Production of such novelty is important enough, he contends, that whatever mechanism enables this should count as a constitutive factor (one satisfied to degrees) of being a non-marginal evolutionary individual.
Communication is a key constitutive factor in this process because it is part of a social interaction system directed toward a designated set of outcomes [ 93].
BDNF has been reported to be a constitutive factor in the lungs and plays an important role in lung development [ 32].
The amount of the transcription factor is often added to that of other transcription factors or a constitutive factor to determine the overall multiplicative effect.
Collected free ports data enabled the identification of three constitutive factors of evolution: an external factor (the jurisdiction), an internal factor (the services provided) and a linking factor (the orientation of flows).
Kinds in the social sciences, such as economics or sociology, are even more problematic, since the changing norms and practices of individuals and societies may also be held to be constitutive factors in kind membership, and these norms and practices may themselves respond to our classification of people into kinds.
These constitutive factors produce the variations in the excitability and spontaneous firing of the pyramidal cell targets needed to periodically recruit cells into population responses.
Another possibility is that within this generally high grade serous ovarian cancer cohort, the overall consistency of the common aberrations may mean that there is little "dynamic range" to detect differences associated with copy number, and that variance in outcome may have more to do with constitutive factors specific to the individual such as their immune system or pharmacogenomics.
In addition to constitutive factors, plants may also launch chemical defense in response to herbivore attack.
Constitutive factors in autophagy pathways including DRAM activated by wild-type p53 may act in concert with apoptotic factors.
