(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.
Attribution
Definition:
(n.) The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.
(n.) That which is ascribed or attributed.
Example Sentences:
(1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(2) Inhibition of thymidine uptake is attributed to an observed decrease in thymidine kinase activity caused by growth in 1 mM dibutyryl cyclic AMP, and possibly to a simultaneous alteration in membrane permeability.
(3) There were no deaths attributable to the treatment.
(4) Most of the infection was attributed to T. parva parva by application of field ticks to susceptible cattle.
(5) Our study suggests that a major part of the renal antimineralocorticoid activity of spironolactone may be attributable to minor sulfur-containing metabolites or their precursors having a high renal clearance that affords access to their site of activity via the renal tubular fluid.
(6) In vitro studies in cardiac Purkinje fibers suggested that reversal of amitriptyline-induced cardiac membrane effects by sodium bicarbonate may be attributed not only to alkalinization but also to increased in extracellular sodium concentration, diminishing the local anesthetic action of amitriptyline and resulting in less sodium channel block.
(7) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(8) Most survivors reported a range of problems that they attributed to having had cancer: 35%, proven or perceived infertility; 24%, sexual problems; 31%, health and life insurance problems; 26%, a negative socioeconomic effect; and 51%, conditioned nausea, associated with visual or olfactory reminders of chemotherapy.
(9) Their best evaluations were in medical care, personal attributes and communication.
(10) Many of the pathophysiologic effects of bacterial endotoxin have recently been attributed to a monokine, tumor necrosis factor (TNF).
(11) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
(12) In Study 4, attributional biases and deficits were found to be positively correlated with the rate of reactive aggression (but not proactive aggression) displayed in free play with peers (N = 127).
(13) The prevalence of kola nut chewing and the effects attributed to it are briefly reviewed.
(14) The following results were obtained: 1) In normal subjects, the changes in ABR waveforms according to the changes of the rise-time, interstimulus interval and frequency of the stimulus were mainly attributed to component wave C. 2) In patients with central disorders, component wave C were initially affected.
(15) The decrease in cyclic AMP response to TSH induced to TSH was reversible, was not associated with a similar decrease to cyclic AMP response to PGE1, and could not be attributed to increased phosphodiesterase activity or to decreased adenyl cyclase activity.
(16) Line broadening detected in several of the high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectra was attributed to cis-trans isomerization.
(17) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.
(18) Cardiac bradyarrhythmias in hypoxia have been attributed to an increased formation and release of adenosine.
(19) Those small problems which exist can be attributed to detector sampling problems, especially in the axial direction, which is a consequence of the geometry of these scanners, which are designed primarily for 2D data acquisition.
(20) These properties of the tissue culture-derived scrapie agent were identical to those of brain-derived scrapie agent and thus cannot be attributed to secondary effects of tissue pathology, since the infected cell cultures show no cytopathic effects as a result of infection.