Whether the protagonist's starving is seen as spiritual or artistic, the panther is regarded as the hunger artist's antithesis: satisfied and contented, the animal's corporeality stands in marked contrast to the hunger artist's ethereality.

Whether this was an attempt to foster increasing unity by dissolving legal boundaries between communities, or to effect domination of the Turkish Cypriots by the majority Greek Cypriots, remains controversial.

Whether these initiatives will have the desired effect of curbing such activities has yet to be seen ; although a number of hawala networks have been closed down and a number of hawaladars have been successfully prosecuted for money laundering, there is little sign that these actions have brought the authorities any closer to identifying and arresting a significant number of terrorists or drug smugglers.

Whether it would produce this effect, or would be an idle threat, depended not so much on Gregory as on Henry's subjects, and, above all, on the German princes.

Whether court orders have any effect at all in the absence of intensive treatment is an unanswered question.

However, satellite data show that cloud optical thickness actually increases with increasing temperature .< ref name = tselioudis-1992 > Whether the net effect is warming or cooling depends on details such as the type and altitude of the cloud ; details that are difficult to represent in climate models.

Whether a side effect is considered part of an action is especially unclear in cases in which the agent isn't aware of the possible side effects.

Whether this chloride flow is excitatory / depolarizing ( makes the voltage across the cell's membrane less negative ), shunting ( has no effect on the cell's membrane ) or inhibitory / hyperpolarizing ( makes the cell's membrane more negative ) depends on the direction of the flow of chloride.

Whether or not stimulants have a positive or negative effect on recall depends on how much is used and for how long.

Whether or not such an expectation was truthful or not has little or no effect on the outcome.

Whether or not these secondary fires will in turn themselves be snuffed out as modern noncombustible brick and concrete buildings collapse in on themselves from the same blast wave is uncertain, as the masking effect of modern city landscapes on thermal and blast transmission is continually examined.

Some have thought Sir Isaac Newton was intended, but such a reading is disproved by this passage, which appears toward the end of the book: " Query 58: Whether it be really an effect of Thinking, that the same Men admire the great author for his Fluxions, and deride him for his Religion?

Whether there is a sleeper effect is controversial.

Whether this effect is desirable or not is a matter of controversy.

Whether this is a root causality, just opportunistic and a side effect, or a more complex pathological duality between P. acnes and this particular Staphylococcus species is not known.

Whether this is due to discrimination is very hotly disputed, however economists and sociologists have provided evidence to that effect.

Whether this effect is due to the nature of erucic acid per se to make the blood platelets less sticky, or to the presence of a reasonably high percentage of α-linolenic acid, or to a combination of properties of fresh unrefined oil, is as yet uncertain.

Whether nitric oxide released in the corpora cavernosa has a relaxing effect, noradrenaline has a much powerful constricting effect by stimulating the unblocked alpha-1 adrenoceptors.

Whether this is her nature or the effect of sharing a dormitory with boys is unclear.

Whether Brecht intended the distancing effect to refer to the audience or to the actor or to both audience and actor is still controversial among teachers and scholars of " Epic Acting " and Brechtian theatre.

Whether a " CalPERS effect " actually exists has been studied in a number of subsequent papers, including but not limited to:

Whether the migration event was a single or multiple occurrence event has a significant effect on how we look at the evolution of mimicry.

Whether or not demographic stochasticity can be considered a part of Allee effect is somewhat contentious however.

Whether it is a temporary effect of the experience or a permanent one is unknown.

Whether this result was caused by the EPOC effect has not been established, and the caloric content of the participants ' diet was not controlled during this particular study period.

Whether or not it is in the industry's interest to allow the basic wage rate to rise obviously depends upon the extent to which the public-limit price rises in response to a basic wage increase, and the relation of this response to the increase in costs accompanying the wage increase.

As Freda Easton explained in her study of Waldorf schools, " Whether one accepts anthroposophy as a science depends upon whether one accepts Steiner's interpretation of a science that extends the consciousness and capacity of human beings to experience their inner spiritual world.

Whether or not a certain cycloaddition would proceed depends on the electronic orbitals of the participating species, as only orbitals with the same sign of wave function will overlap and interact constructively to form new bonds.

Whether or not a name is well-formed depends on the type of computer system being used.

Whether a class action is superior to individual litigation depends on the case, and is determined by the judge's ruling on a motion for class certification.

Whether an emulsion of oil and water turns into a " water-in-oil " emulsion or an " oil-in-water " emulsion depends on the volume fraction of both phases and the type of emulsifier ( surfactant ) ( see Emulsifier, below ) present.

Whether the player uses one general pivot direction or the other, and the degree to which the motion is performed, depends on the performer's anatomical features and stage of development.

Whether or not particular forms of " work " can be called child labour depends on the child's age, the type and hours of work performed, the conditions under which it is performed and the objectives pursued by individual countries.

Whether a material is an insulator depends on its band gap, the energy needed by an electron to make it a conduction electron so it can move freely.

Whether the Quran sanctions defensive warfare only or commands an all out war against non-Muslims depends on the interpretation of the relevant passages.

Whether a material is liquid or solid depends primarily on the connectivity between its elementary building blocks so that solids are characterised by a high degree of connectivity where as fluids occur at lower connectivity of the structural blocks.

Whether a purchase is perceived as being a " friendly " one or a " hostile " depends significantly on how the proposed acquisition is communicated to and perceived by the target company's board of directors, employees and shareholders.

Whether the ribosome exists in a free or membrane-bound state depends on the presence of an ER-targeting signal sequence on the protein being synthesized, so an individual ribosome might be membrane-bound when it is making one protein, but free in the cytosol when it makes another protein.

Whether Adam is bad or deserves fruit depends on Adam.

Whether a reaction actually will go in the arbitrarily-selected forward direction or not depends on the amounts of the substances present at any given time, which determines the kinetics and thermodynamics, i. e., whether equilibrium lies to the right or the left.

Whether HTSC or LTSC systems are more economical depends because there are other major components determining the cost of SMES: Conductor consisting of superconductor and copper stabilizer and cold support are major costs in themselves.

Whether a piece of new XEmacs code enters GNU Emacs often depends on the willingness of that individual contributor to assign the code to the FSF.

Whether members of a cartel choose to cheat on the agreement depends on whether the short-term returns to cheating outweigh the long-term losses from the possible breakdown of the cartel.

Whether these are slow or rapid changes depends on climate, topography and biological activity.

Whether or not acute trauma progresses to long-term effects probably depends on multiple factors that include the shock wave dose ( i. e., the number of shock waves delivered, rate of delivery, power setting, acoustic characteristics of the particular lithotriptor, and frequency of retreatment ), as well as certain intrinsic predisposing pathophysiologic risk factors.

Whether or not a program using such a library is thread-safe depends on whether it uses the library in a manner consistent with those guarantees.

Whether or not a cloud is low, middle, or high level depends on how far above the ground its base forms.

Whether a coercive or violent method of social control is perceived as aggression – or as legitimate versus illegitimate aggression – depends on the position of the relevant parties in relation to the social order of their culture.

Whether an HMO can be held responsible for a physician's negligence partially depends on the HMO's screening process.