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Both use different perspectives to find the causal factors and future developments.

Several suspected causal factors in our environment have been studied so far.

Second, the relationship between age and poverty may be the consequence of other causal factors.

During the past decade, much research has addressed possible causal factors.

It is furthermore considered a causal factor of violence against women.

In general, food insecurity is rarely the result of one causal factor.

What one needs in those cases is to establish a causal factor.

Known causal factors, however, evidence great diversity, and each factor requires a different treatment approach.

These five would therefore be the causal factors in the experience of the Real.

Let us be honest: we still know little about the causal factors.