(v. t.) To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).
(n.) That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.
(n.) Reputation.
(n.) A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.
(n.) Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.
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.
Authorship
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.
(n.) Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.
Example Sentences:
(1) This problem cannot be solved by attempts to multiply publications unnecessarily or to blur the meaning of authorship.
(2) This weekend, in an interview with ABC and on Twitter, Trump questioned the authorship of the speech, insisted he had made sacrifices for his country comparable to those of the Khans, and complained of being “ viciously attacked ” by Khizr Khan.
(3) In fact McCracken points to problems that others don't seem to, such as: Samsung may have barely mentioned Android at its Galaxy S4 launch event, but there's plenty of evidence of Google's handiwork in the S4, and at times, the handset's joint authorship results in competing features, overlapping functionality and a general sense of redundancy.
(4) To help nurse faculty and administrators address four of the more common problem areas, the author discusses the ethics of multiple authorship, conflict of interest, fraud, and salami publishing.
(5) Authorship of the genus Leucocytozoon has been variously assigned to several investigatiors, especially Danilewsky and Ziemann.
(6) No one at this stage had said there were problems of authorship or plagiarism with the thesis.
(7) Four reviewers independently assessed each study, without knowledge of authorship, according to 35 criteria, 14 of which were considered critical for this type of study.
(8) A trend was also revealed toward multiple authorship of articles over the ten-year period.
(9) Trends toward CRNA authorship and addressing ethical concerns were identified.
(10) Thus once more a debate about art, community, authorship, ownership and value was underway and, as usual, the man at its centre was nowhere to be seen.
(11) If you’re releasing data and people are reusing it, under what purpose and authorship are they doing so?” There needs, Hill says, to be a “reframed social contract”.
(12) Type A lapses--such as the presence of errors or inconsistencies, failure to obtain relevant data, and honorary authorship--may simply reflect carelessness.
(13) There was heavy, but not total reliance on nursing authorship and journals in the courses surveyed.
(14) The proposals aim to stamp out the shady business of "guest authorship", where research papers written by pharmaceutical companies or industry-sponsored medical writers are passed off as the work of influential, independent academics.
(15) The ideal advanced directive should clearly state the author's intentions; contain clear documentation regarding authorship; be flexible, allowing family and caregivers to respond appropriately to changing circumstances; be available when needed; and be supported by legal powers that grant patients the right of enforcement and grant health care providers protection from liability.
(16) The Colloquium on Scientific Authorship was held at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at a time of extraordinary scrutiny by the public of the ethics of scientists, as represented by intense interest of the press and the Congress of the United States.
(17) The true authorship of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a gold-panning story famously filmed by John Huston, had long been lost in a maze of false names and identities.
(18) Large-scale multi-institutional clinical trials provide less opportunity for authorship than individual or small-group research.
(19) "This report will fuel the Tory obsession with Europe, and expose their true aim, which is to abolish all of the rights enshrined in the Human Rights Act and replace them with a new set, with fewer rights …The Tories will be using the findings for their next manifesto – and at a cost of millions of pounds, that must be the most expensive piece of manifesto authorship in history, all courtesy of the taxpayer."
(20) The analysis of the data provided by the respondents (N = 127; 97.6%) revealed the following: 1) the respondents' primary scholarly activity was authorship of referred journal articles; 2) a majority of the respondents presented a paper at a professional meeting during the past three years; 3) only a small percentage of the respondents had directed extramurally funded projects; 4) the majority of the respondents indicated that their own academic preparation was the primary factor that encouraged their scholarly pursuits and that heavy teaching and administrative responsibilities were the primary discouraging factors; and 5) the respondents indicated that faculty scholarly activities are, and will continue to be, important considerations in academic promotion decisions.