The phrase "acknowledge a contribution" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to recognize or give credit to someone's input or effort in a particular context, such as a project or discussion.
Example: "In our meeting, I would like to take a moment to acknowledge a contribution made by Sarah, which greatly improved our proposal."
Alternatives: "recognize a contribution" or "credit a contribution."
The authors gratefully acknowledge a financial contribution from the Directorate General for International Cooperation of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs DGISS).
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/12/194/prepub The authors gratefully acknowledge a financial contribution from the Research Foundation – Flanders.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2369/13/73/prepub The authors gratefully acknowledge an unrestricted contribution from the Human Genetic Therapies Division of Shire Pharmaceuticals (UK) to cover the cost of page charges incurred for the publication of this manuscript.
The Red Ochre award for Foley's achievements in the arts comes on the heels of another accolade last year that also acknowledged a broader contribution to public life.
The authors attributed NO release to an algal NOS-like enzyme but also acknowledged a potential contribution of other enzymes such as nitrate reductases [17].
While we acknowledge a possible and likely contribution of the second and the third confounders, we believe that the first confounder is unlikely to explain the gains we observed.
The abundance of rare SNP alleles therefore represents a real biological feature of the studied stickleback populations (acknowledging a small potential contribution from PCR artefacts).
Then last Thursday (May 5th), the 25-year-old Israel Film Festival (which runs until May 19th at the AMC Loews 84th Street 6) presented him with their Achievement in Film Award -- one that acknowledges a Jewish filmmaker's contributions to the art.
The authors acknowledge the contribution from a reviewer of the concepts of retroelement insertion and differential polymerase selectivity as potential origins for the higher A & T tract frequencies than G&C tract frequencies that we describe here.
