The phrase "alternative causes for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing different reasons or factors that may lead to a particular outcome or effect.
Example: "In our research, we explored alternative causes for the increase in pollution levels in the city."
Alternatives: "different reasons for" or "various factors contributing to".
Alternative causes for the invariance are discussed.
Alternative causes for this phenomenon are discussed.
Alternative causes for headache such as an effect of NO on extracerebral arteries or an effect of NO on perivascular nerves should be investigated.
After background light was removed and alternative causes for radial velocity variations were disproved (for example, that Kepler-40 was actually a close binary star), the team used SOPHIE to analyze the properties of the actual star.
In a study of African children diagnosed with CM, approximately one quarter were shown to have alternative causes for their neurological syndrome at post-mortem examination [1].
Further, their study [8] used a CK level more than 2500 IU/L as definition for rhabdomyolysis and excluded patients with acidosis defined as serum bicarbonate less than 15 meq/L in addition to alternative causes for rhabdomyolysis (trauma, surgery, dysnatremia, hypokalemia, hypophospatemia) since they were attempting to correlate plasma osmolality with levels of CK.
Thus extinction was reversed by the concurrent presence of an alternative cause for the absence of the unconditioned stimulus.
The attending physicians on the unit saw BB regularly, but were at a loss to determine an alternative cause for the drastic and unfortunate change in her behavior.
An alternative cause for the discrepancies between the modelled data and what we observe is much more fundamental: that CDM does not exist, and the predictions of the standard model relating to it are false.
As was suggested earlier, a possible alternative cause for much of the movement of ilagiit groupings within the Clyde region, especially in the area from Eglinton Fiord to Buchan Gulf, may be the re-infiltration of Inuit to Clyde after several decades of centrifugal pull toward the trading centers of Pond Inlet and Qiviqtuq, an observation also made by Stevenson (1972).
Furthermore we ruled out relevant CAD as an alternative cause for cTnI elevation in the majority of the cTnI-positive patients.
