Despite research on DID including structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, single-photon emission computed tomography, event-related potential and electroencephalography, no convergent neuroimaging findings have been identified regarding DID, making it difficult to hypothesize a biological basis for DID.

Despite the differences in terminology, there is little functional difference between the four types of prefecture.

Despite the significant functional importance of membrane proteins, the structural biology has been particularly challenging as shown by the low number of membrane protein structures determined.

Despite recent improvements, there are still difficulties in using density functional theory to properly describe intermolecular interactions, especially van der Waals forces ( dispersion ); charge transfer excitations ; transition states, global potential energy surfaces and some other strongly correlated systems ; and in calculations of the band gap in semiconductors.

Despite these difficulties, fMRI has been used clinically to map functional areas, check left-right hemispherical asymmetry in language and memory regions, check the neural correlates of a seizure, study how the brain recovers partially from a stroke, test how well a drug or behavioral therapy works, detect the onset of Alzheimer's, and note the presence of disorders like depression.

Despite its conceptual simplicity, Q is a full-featured functional programming language with a modern syntax, currying, dynamic typing using an object-oriented type system, exception handling, POSIX multithreading, a comprehensive standard library, and an interface to the C programming language.

Despite the relatively pictorial appearance of the oracle bone script, it is in fact a fully functional and fairly mature writing system, i. e., able to record the Old Chinese language in its entirety and not just isolated kinds of meaning.

Despite its status as a fully functional and fairly mature writing system, the oracle bone script is not actually 100 % mature – the form of a very few graphs changes depending on context, and on occasion the order of the graphs does not quite match that of the language.

Despite marked advances in reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation, intensity-modulated radiotherapy ( IMRT ) and conservation approaches to certain malignancies, some patients continue to have significant functional deficits.

Despite its age, the plant is still fully functional, providing approximately 45 % of the water supply for Toronto and York Region.

Despite their nonfunctional components, the Río Bec towers hold the typical decorations of a pyramid and its upper temple and at first glance are taken as functional pyramids.

Despite no functional firefighting system, the wooden grandstand would last long enough to allow more than 11, 000 patrons and employees to escape the inferno.

Despite its small size, the software included a fully functional ncurses-based interface.

Despite the " R / T " moniker which signifies " Road and Track ", the newest Dakota R / T is simply an option package, characterized by a non functional hood scoop, exclusive gauge cluster, and hockey-stick style side stripes.

Despite malfunctions due to improper maintenance the plane itself was functional.

Despite the name, they are in fact always fully functional and capable of taking photographs, albeit with optical aberrations due to the limitations of the simple lenses.

Despite the lack of action, the French Galley Corps received vast resources ( 20-25 % of the French naval expenditures ) during the last decades of the 17th centuries and was maintained as a functional fighting force right up until its abolishment in 1748.

Despite its small functional capacity the station is a principal stop on the East Coast Main Line and is called at by many intercity services travelling the route.

Despite the functional aspects of their design, ghillies brogues are most commonly seen as a component of traditional, formal Scottish dress and are worn primarily for social occasions.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

Despite their low diversity, hyenas are unique and vital components to most African and some Asian ecosystems.

Despite the advantages of such an adaptation, zoos are cautioned that parthenogenesis may be detrimental to genetic diversity.

Despite " all this technological diversity, there must be one which is the perfect choice for you ".

Despite such harsh conditions, this anoxic and sulphidic environment is teeming with microbial life, both chemosynthetic prokaryotes that are primary producers, and a broad diversity of eukaryotic heterotrophs at the next trophic level.

Despite the limited diversity of species, the number of individuals is large.

Despite their diversity of form, crustaceans are united by the special larval form known as the nauplius.

Despite that diversity of opinion, he concludes that the result upon the practitioner is generally perceived as a positive one.

Despite its relatively small size, Tunisia has great environmental diversity due to its north-south extent.

Despite the black rats tendency to displace native species, it can also aid in increasing species population numbers and maintaining species diversity.

Despite the diversity in morphology seen between groups, improving foraging efficiency has been the main driver in the evolution in these lineages.

Despite the diversity of organisms containing plastids, the morphology, biochemistry, genomic organisation, and molecular phylogeny of plastid RNAs and proteins suggest a single origin of all extant plastids – although this theory is still debated.

Despite the diversity in themes, the style of the games was fairly consistent.

Despite such a prohibition, depictions of human beings do occur Islamic art, such as that of the Mughals, demonstrating a strong diversity in popular interpretation over the pre-modern period.

Despite such diversity of theologic perspectives, such experts disagree about the particulars of their deities and of revealed Truth.

Despite the ethnic diversity, the Alley characters seemed less citified and more akin with O. O. McIntyre's small-town America.

Despite the general perception that American culture is characterized more by diversity than by homogeneity, the American ideology of cultural homogeneity implies an American mindset that because Eurocentric cultures are superior to others, people with different cultures should conform to the dominant monocultural canon and norms.

Despite this diversity, there are some unifying artistic themes when considering the totality of the visual culture from the continent of Africa.

Despite the great diversity in Israeli music today, a corpus of canonical songs has developed, known as " Shirei Eretz Yisrael " — " Songs of the Land of Israel " or " Zemer ivri ".

Despite their adaptations for weathering extreme adversity, habitat destruction and hunting have resulted in lemur populations declining sharply, and their diversity has diminished, with the recent extinction of at least 17 species in eight genera, known collectively as the subfossil lemurs.

Despite its current lack of diversity, the Rhynchocephalia at one time included a wide array of genera in several families, and represents a lineage stretching back to the Mesozoic Era.

Despite such geographical diversity, the people of Ngāpuhi maintain their shared history and self-identity.

Despite the ethnic, linguistic, religious and denominational diversity of the Lebanese, they “ share an almost common culture ”.

Despite their diversity, the Chu people were united by a common respect for nature, the supernatural, their heritage and loyalty to their ruling house and nobility, epitomized by the famed Chu statesman-poet Qu Yuan and the Songs of Chu.