The phrase "a component contributing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing elements that play a role in a larger system or process, indicating their contribution to the overall function or outcome.
Example: "In this project, a component contributing to our success is the collaboration between different departments."
Alternatives: "an element adding" or "a factor influencing".
If exposure is excluded, vulnerability becomes a property solely of the system and "exposure" as a component contributing to the vulnerability becomes part of the analysis only, if, and when the potentially hazardous event or process occurs.
These alternative scenarios include a component contributing < 1% to total PM2.5 mass, but with concentrations below detection limits that co-vary with PM2.5 total mass, or a component or set of components that co-vary with the identified key components.
The former is ahistorical and simply addresses the way(s) in which a component contributes to a stated capacity of some predefined system of which it is a part: What it in fact does.
In a PEMFC stack, the bipolar plates are a major component, contributing 50% of the total cost and 80% of the total weight.
In addition to seasonal and annual variability in temperature control from below, the possibility of seasonal and annual variability in temperature from topside due to solar variation is also a key component contributing to the overall variability on a large time scale.
This may include the WTP for one's private use of the good, as well as an altruistic component contributing to a clean and safe environment for others.
Deciphering the behavioural patterns of large open-air sites necessitates an approach that incorporates landscape evolution as a critical component contributing to the spatial distribution and variability in the archaeological record.
These patients generally have a craniofacial component contributing to their OSA, which would manifest as a retrognathic maxilla 18 or mandible, a long lower face height and restriction in the space of the upper airway.
I conclude that the influence of small-scale convection is not the primary explanation for the formation of high topographic features at divergent continental margins, but can be an important component contributing to sustain a preexistent escarpment.
The finite element analyses indicate that the interface friction between the jet grout slab and the wall is a key component contributing to the resistance of the excavation system to basal heave failure.
Recent evidence supports a genetic component contributing at least in part to this racial disparity and influencing the disease progression [4].
