The phrase "characterize the contribution of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing or analyzing the role or impact of a specific element, person, or factor in a particular context.
Example: "In her research paper, she aims to characterize the contribution of social media to modern communication."
Alternatives: "describe the role of" or "define the impact of".
British and American climate agencies, drawing on work from around the world, have produced the second in what is planned as an annual roundup of studies seeking to characterize the contribution of human-driven global warming to rare and consequential weather and coastal events.
The coupled role of working fluid and solid wall is quantified by deriving a new non-dimensional group, which can be used to characterize the contribution of working fluid and the solid wall to the heat transport rate.
The activity in soot combustion has been measured both in the presence and absence of gas-phase O2 in order to characterize the contribution of surface and bulk properties of the materials.
The present study was designed to characterize the contribution of N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA)- and non-NMDA-mediated excitatory transmission within the rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM) to the activation of brainstem inhibitory output neurons and analgesia produced by systemic morphine administration.
Here we set out to further characterize the contribution of vGPCR to the upregulation of VEGF secretion in KS.
The major goal of this study was to characterize the contribution of NADPH oxidase and iNOS hemoproteins to the macrophage antimicrobial arsenal against B. mallei.
This study underscored the need for three-dimensional or volume-based assessments to characterize the contributions of valley-bottom riparian and wetland areas to streamflow.
In addition, studies are needed to further characterize the contributions of lifetime history of anxiety disorder, prior year rapid cycling, and lifetime history of psychosis to the relationship between current irritability and depressive recurrence.
To further characterize the contributions of pol λ and pol β in mammalian BER, we bred pol λ +/−/pol β +/− mice together.
The stability scale is a quantity used to characterize the contributions of individual residues to stability of a protein fold where higher values mean higher stability.
To further characterize the contributions of MIF following LTA-PGN challenge, we used GeneChips to obtain a description of the global transcriptomic response of lungs from mif+/+ and mif-/ mice 6 hours post LTA-PGN.
