The phrase "attributed as a result" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts where one is explaining the cause or reason for something, but the phrasing is awkward.
Example: "The increase in sales was attributed as a result of the new marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "attributed to" or "ascribed to".
Male leopard frogs in several states are acquiring female sexual attributes as a result of exposure to atrazine, one of the most heavily used weedkillers in America, according to a study published today in the journal Nature.
In fact, all known pandemics in recent human history have been attributed as results of reassortment of genes between two or more distinct viruses, with concrete evidence in support of this fact for all except the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic (Kawaoka et al., 1989; Lindstrom et al., 2004; Scholtissek et al., 1978; Smith et al., 2009a).
As it can be seen from Figure 3a, the semicircles were depressed into the zre (real axis) of Nyquist plot which is often attributed as frequency dispersion as a result of the inhomogeneity, roughness, impurities, dislocations, distribution of the active sites, adsorption of the inhibitors, and formation of porous layers on the mild steel surface (Noor 2009; Macdonald 1987).
The main cause of the observed discrepancies between model and field are attributed to channelling as a result of small-scale heterogeneities such as biopores.
This is generally attributed to sensitization as a result of chromium depletion which in turn is due to the chromium carbide precipitation in the grain boundaries[1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
The findings where 40.2 % were subscribed to the scheme, may also be attributed to delays – as a result of long queues – which characterise registration/renewal of NHIS membership and utilisation of health services with insurance or dissatisfaction with quality of services received from the scheme regarding registration/renewal and health care use [10, 35].
No significant complications could be attributed to hypothermia as a result of this brief period of cooling (several hours).
Since this is not the case for seasonal influenza, any value attributed to R0 as a result of the fitting process would be of no epidemiological meaning.
Furthermore, because MRI is performed in vivo, any alterations to the BBB must be regarded as a consequence of the disease process and cannot be attributed to artefact as a result of the animal's death.
In the case we report here, the occurrence of subcutaneous oedemas was attributed to hypoalbuminemia as a result of nephropathy with protein loss, with changes in the ECG that correlated with this initial diagnosis.
