The phrase "attributed to a deficit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the cause or reason for a particular issue or condition that is linked to a lack or shortfall in something.
Example: "The recent decline in productivity has been attributed to a deficit in resources and manpower."
Alternatives: "linked to a shortfall" or "ascribed to a lack".
This has been largely attributed to a deficit in β-cell mass ranging from ∼40 to 65% compared with nondiabetic individuals (3).
In this section, we examine how much cancer of the colon, female breast and endometrium observed in 2010 might be attributed to a deficit in physical activity in the population below this recommended minimum.
DD is frequently attributed to a deficit in these basic, innate numerical processes, such as impaired understanding of the meaning of numbers or impaired quantity representation [ 1, 12- 14].
DD is often attributed to a deficit in the ability to process symbolic representations; Rousselle and Noel [ 37] found that young DD children (age 7) were slower than age matched children only when comparing Arabic digits.
Third, it is doubtful that patients with PCA's pattern of performance can be attributed to a deficit in peripheral spatial attention, one that might underlie a restriction in the effective visual field (Russell et al., 2004, 2013).
In line with this hypothesis, patients with damage to the VMPC exhibit increased utilitarian judgement in response to high conflict personal dilemmas compared to healthy individuals, a finding which has been attributed to a deficit in social emotion (Ciaramelli et al., 2007; Koenigs et al., 2007).
Based on our previous findings [25] and others [27], [28], together with the effect observed at 24 hr here, this impairment should attribute to a deficit in memory consolidation.
In the case of amitriptilyline, the data can be attributed to a memorization deficit, while the maprotiline results are interpreted as simultaneously influenced by memorization deficit and performance facilitation due to motor impairment.
The inflation, which is attributed to a budget deficit running at over 7percentt of gross domestic product, has also prompted the Government to reduce the state's role in many of the country's enterprises, many of which were nationalized in the leftist fervor that followed the 1974 revolution.
Some have suggested that all of these symptoms can be attributed to a primary deficit of cognition in ADHD sufferers, particularly impairment of executive functions [ 1].
Interestingly, the presence of overestimations in the unlimited condition (attributed to a SWM deficit) matched the MMSE scores, whereas the percentage of underestimation in the brief presentation condition (attributed to simultanagnosia) did not match these scores.
