The phrase "asserted to cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing claims or statements about the effects or consequences of something.
Example: "The new policy was asserted to cause significant improvements in employee productivity."
Alternatives: "claimed to cause" or "alleged to cause".
Moreover, failure to induce lung steroid synthesis is asserted to be a cause of asthma and has been experimentally confirmed in the OVA-induced allergic airway inflammation model (Hostettler et al., 2012).
Even though the source of funding has been asserted to be a "less significant" cause of publication bias than other causes (e.g., academic pressure to publish) (DeMaria 2004; Fanelli 2010), industry support suffices for many to vitiate the credibility of scientific work.
Flattening of velocity profile, shear thinning, and thermophoretic forces in the near-wall region have been asserted to be the probable causes for enhanced convective heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids[9, 18, 19].
Failure to find the cause the theory asserts to be there will in general not require the rejection of the theory: the claim is an existence claim, and a failure to find something asserted to exist does not refute that claim; perhaps one has not looked hard enough.
The manager has overseen draws against USA and Algeria and has been surprised by the players' inability to assert themselves against teams expected to cause them few problems.
The strategy of fighting to win -- to cause peacemaking Palestinians to assert leadership -- shows some progress.
The backing by the N.E.A. of Mr. Obama is likely to cause many Republicans to assert that the president is too cozy with the union and is not moving aggressively enough to overhaul the nation's schools.
However, he stressed that the researchers were not asserting that they had caused Alzheimer's in the monkeys and that the brain plaques present were different to those believed to cause Alzheimer's.
The concept possession, or understanding, of the person with the odd psychology who believes contingent propositions once he understands what they are asserting may cause him to believe those propositions, but it does not explain why he is justified in believing them.
There he fared badly, working with two successive voice teachers who, he asserted, caused him to lose his upper register.
