The phrase "attracting factor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an element or characteristic that draws interest or attention to something.
Example: "The attracting factor of the new restaurant is its unique fusion cuisine that combines flavors from different cultures."
Alternatives: "appealing aspect" or "draw factor".
So even though I had decided to look for words, I suppose the aesthetics of their records were really the attracting factor.
While food is generally thought of as an attracting factor for free-living marine nematodes (e.g. [45] [52]) in some cases it seems as if certain food varieties or stages of decomposition have a repellent or indifferent effect on some communities and species [20], [50], [53].
This was reflected in less marked gene expression responses of macrophage attracting factor and interleukins in addition to TNFα.
The close correlations found for interleukin 1β, the macrophage attracting factor MCP1 [ 50], and a macrophage marker, CD68 [ 51] with respect to DNA agree with this interpretation.
Factors that influenced participants to focus their careers in HIV care included both attracting factors and retaining factors.
Other participants likened the attracting factors (e.g., many cars from the urban centre representing the availability of wealthy men) that characterize the local environment where they go to sell sex (e.g., the bar, Chippas) to the 'red light districts' of the city where sex workers sell sex in nearby urban centres, Cape Town and Mfuleni.
The prime minister's spokesman said that the Cameron measures would reduce the "pull factor" attracting migrants to the UK.
To achieve effective growth factor delivery, Johnson and Wang [ 26] designed a polymer-growth factor coacervate by using heparin-binding growth factor and attracting growth factor-containing heparin with PEAD through polyvalent charge [ 27].
The government could only monitor "pull factors" attracting migrants, he said.
We previously showed that during blood cell development, RUNX1 binding reshapes the epigenetic landscape by attracting other factors to its binding sites, and that this factor relocation is reversible (Lichtinger et al., 2012).
Nonfinancial pull factors attract them to the private sector, urban areas or overseas.
