The phrase "a practical contribution to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the tangible benefits or impacts of a particular action, idea, or project in a specific context.
Example: "The research provided a practical contribution to the field of renewable energy, helping to develop more efficient solar panels."
Alternatives: "a valuable input to" or "a useful addition to".
Mr De Meo, who is the group's head of marketing as well as Alfa's new chief executive, admits that the expensive, limited-edition 8C Spider is a "halo" model rather than a practical contribution to Alfa's recovery, "a sign of competence and a blueprint" for Alfa's brand values.
Clearly, the development of transgenic crops that can tolerate high salt stress would offer a practical contribution to solving this urgent problem.
Our method is very easily parallelizable within the prediction phase and can therefore be considered a practical contribution to the functional genomics toolkit.
As a practical contribution to the emerging field of biomedical event detection, we publish the dataset in a flexible XML format as well as the widely adopted BioNLP'09 Shared Task format.
Unfortunately, the expression of T. reesei cellobiohydrolases or exoglucanase, which play the critical role in cellulose degradation, is still poor in S. cerevisiae, and still remains lots of problems to be solved before a practical contribution to a worldwide energy supply.
Thus, variables regarding exposure and peritraumatic fear were left out because they did not make any practical contribution to the model.
Their impressive results, reported in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1990, showed that 11 of the first 12 patients treated with 2-CdA experienced a complete remission from leukemia for up to four years, an "extraordinary insight and an important practical contribution" to cancer research, said Dr. Marshall A. Lichtman, a professor of hematology and oncology at the University of Rochester.
The guides cover a wide spectrum of issues related to supporting evidence-informed health policymaking and we anticipate that they will be a major, practical contribution to advancing this field.
An ongoing role for the ICO would allow the ICO to continue to share its resources and expertise with the network of EU Data Protection Authorities, and provide a practical contribution at EU level which will benefit citizens and organisations in both the UK and the EU".
Research conducted from a social constructionist perspective has already made a significant theoretical and practical contribution to other disciplines, for example gerontology [ 24, 25], but has not been an approach adopted within palliative and end-of-life care research which, overall, has been criticised for being atheoretical and not sensitive to context [ 26].
Cooking in a Bedsitter was her practical contribution to women's freedom.
