The phrase "are contributory to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors or elements that contribute to a particular outcome or situation.
Example: "The various environmental factors are contributory to the decline of the species."
Alternatives: "are factors in" or "play a role in".
From all available defined sensors, we announced which of them are contributory to specific behavior and environment pattern recognition with brief description.
To date, it is unclear whether alterations in regulatory T cell (Treg) function are contributory to progression of HIV infection.
Conversely, conditioned supernatants collected from anti-CD3 antibody treated LN cell cultures did not cause significant BMMSC death (Fig. 1D), eliminating possibility that soluble factor(s) produced by activated T cells are contributory to cell death of BMMSCs.
This bears evidence to the deep-rooted prejudicial attitudes towards women and other deeper societal issues that are contributory to these crimes.
In the clinical arena, without an established baseline transcriptome representative of in vivo, non-neoplastic colonic cells, determining which genetic alterations are contributory to the pathogenesis of adenocarcinoma of the colon would be difficult.
Observations indicating that both IgG2a and IgG3 antibodies are contributory to kidney disease raise the possibility that IgG3 rheumatoid factors (i.e. antibodies able to bind to IgG Fc regions), which can exhibit specificity for IgG2a Fc regions and are present at high frequency in MRL/ lpr mice [ 16, 17], exacerbate the inflammatory stimulus created by the renal deposition of IgG2a antibodies.
The evidence they produced went before publication to the WHO and may have been contributory to the aspirational 5% limit that it included in its latest guidance.
You presumably learnt something from the period, and it will have been contributory to how you approached the later, more successful, period of your working life, so use it that way," says Gregory.
The oven effect may be contributory to increased ablation zone size in RFA-TACE [12]; however, the effects following 90Y radioembolization cannot be determined at this pre-clinical stage.
The investigations were contributory to patient management in 25.0% (12/48) of these cases and did not change management in the remaining 75.0% (36/48).
The apparent quantum efficiency of N TiO2 (8.6 %) was slightly higher than that Ce TiO2 (6.7 %) but the efficiency increased significantly for co-doped Ce N TiO2 to 17.2, suggesting that both doping components were contributory to photocatalytic activity, as discussed earlier, giving higher hydrogen production.
