(v. t.) To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.
(v. t.) To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(2) The high ED50 immediately after vagotomy is ascribed to the sudden fall in the subthreshold release of acetylcholine previously supplied by the intact vagus.
(3) The phenomenon can be ascribed to the decrease in charge density due to the incorporation of dodecyl alcohol into SDS micelles.
(4) The larger accumulation of Mn2+ than of Sr2+ in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is ascribed to the operation of a specific extrusion pump, presumably a Ca2+ pump, which has a higher affinity for Sr2+ than for Mn2+.
(5) The results suggest that in sodium-depleted rats denervation natriuresis can be ascribed neither to strain differences nor to the high sucrose content of the low-sodium diet.
(6) The toxicity at this dose included pericarditis and dyspnoea ascribed to a 'capillary-leak' syndrome.
(7) It is suggested that reduced immunocompetence is the likely mechanism in this case and may also be a contributory factor in those cases which have been ascribed to the use of alkylating agents or radiation.
(8) Based on these characteristics, we tentatively ascribe this activity to hepatic very low density lipoprotein, the serum counterpart of which is known to express many immunoregulatory properties.
(9) The disappearance of this band on heating and at high pH was ascribed to the adoption by the telopeptide of a specific tertiary structure.
(10) The clinical findings ascribed to trisomy 1q and partial monosomy 9p are summarized and compared to this case.
(11) The latter practice has previously been ascribed to imprinting and the soothing sound of the mother's heartbeat on the infant.
(12) Although there was no significant difference in overall mortality between the groups, fewer deaths were ascribed to acute systemic fungal infections in the group receiving fluconazole than in the group receiving placebo (1 of 179 vs. 10 of 177, P less than 0.001).
(13) It is concluded that most, if not all, of these marker enzymes in the Golgi fraction cannot be ascribed to contamination by the non-Golgi organelles.
(14) The finding is at variance with others that ascribe haemostatic changes observed to increased oestrogen content in a given pill formulation and so merits confirmation in a larger study.
(15) In the cases of carminomycin and 6-deoxycarminomycin, which both have another phenolic group at C4, two phenolic ionization processes can be detected in the experimentally accessible pH range (5-12): these are ascribed to C4-OH and C11-OH.
(16) This antigen thus seems to play a role in the intercellular contacts; this is the first function ascribed to this FDC specific antigen.
(17) The pathogenetic investigation suggested that cystic endometriosis in the ovary might mainly be ascribed to the endometrioid metaplasia of the celomic epithelium and that non-cystic endometriosis might occasionally originate from metastasis or implantation of endometrial tissues.
(18) There is a real danger in ascribing New Orleans’ situation over the last decade to the storm.
(19) Since muscle contraction ceases immediately following nerve transection, regardless of nerve stump length, the results can be ascribed to the lack of some neural influence other than nerve-evoked muscle activity.
(20) We conclude that the increase in blood-brain barrier permeability due to amitriptyline may be ascribed at least in part to an increase of pinocytotic activity in brain capillary endothelial cells.
Ascription
Definition:
(n.) The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.
Example Sentences:
(1) 78% of the patients completed their treatment in agreement with the original ascription to therapy, with good results for all three therapies.
(2) The sources of observation were objective test performances, trait ascription using a standard list of adjectives, and videotaped enactments of mood and esthetic performances.
(3) It is urged that interlaboratory validation of techniques and landmarks should precede the ascription of apparent differences in body build to constitutional factors.
(4) Mammary developmental growth was assessed on inguinal mammary glands by ascription of development scores, determination of epithelial area (mm2), and determination of total DNA levels.
(5) The ascription was made on the basis of a separate series of Raman examinations on six crystals involving adenosine or thymidine, and fifteen other nucleotide crystals, whose structures are all known by previous crystallographic works.
(6) In this paper, the problem of correct ascriptions of consciousness to patients in neurological intensive care medicine is explored as a special case of the general philosophical 'other minds problem'.
(7) Appropriate clinical management of affected individuals can only be instituted if enzyme activity is measured using a method capable of clear interpretation and phenotypic ascription of cholinesterase, ascertained by use of selected enzyme inhibitors, is reliable.
(8) Three hundred sixty six academicians with professional appointments in physics, psychology, sociology, nursing, and management were surveyed by a mailed questionnaire, the Tenure Decision Factor Inventory (TDFI) composed of Achievement (ACH) Ascriptive (ASCRIPT), Internal Political (IP), and External Political (EP) criteria related to tenure receipt.
(9) The implications of our data for the kinds of behavioral evidence required for ascription of such stereotypy to a central pattern generator are discussed.
(10) The impact of intervening variables such as selection factors as well as the influence of gender on the ascription of a diagnosis of schizophrenia for the first time were assessed.
(11) It is further argued that a folk version of such a theory already underlies our factual ascriptions of consciousness in clinical contexts.
(12) It is also suggested that the underlying as well as the overt bases for these stereotypical ascriptions may have broader applicability: differential rather than unilateral assessments may indeed be the norm rather than a peculiarly Antillean perception.
(13) Performance and causal ascriptions to the four factors effort, ability, luck, and task difficulty as a function of success for failure feedback were investigated.
(14) Care should be taken in the ascription of symptoms to minor tears so discovered.
(15) I defend ascription of a right of self-determination to these incompetents against both conceptual and normative attacks.
(16) These data are fully consistent with the original ascription that the purple species observed upon reduction of the acyl-CoA dehydrogenases with substrate represents a charge transfer complex between reduced flavin as the donor and trans-2-octenoyl-CoA as the acceptor.
(17) He suggests that the definition and ascription of illness are of such social importance that decisions concerning them should be made cooperatively by doctors and society.
(18) I argue that a court need make no conceptual error when it ascribes a right of self-determination to a being who never had capacity for rational choice, and I argue that proper judicial deference to reflective conventional morality supports ascription of a right of self-determination to severe incompetents.
(19) A brief review of tests of the attributional model of depression suggests that there is only weak or inconsistent support for the predicted causal ascriptions by depressed persons for negative events.
(20) Since the pattern of VNTR electrophoretic bands is inherited from parents in a proportion of 50% from each one, this system is extremely useful for paternity ascription or exclusion.