The acute toxicity of TiO2 NP and Fe3O4 NP in daphnids, for instance, was attributed to a physical inhibition of moulting, ultimately inducing death [155, 156].
The deficit in the mortality from cancer of the breast, ovary and cervix uteri in the older age groups (shown in Fig. 4) could, for instance, be attributed to a reduction, during middle age, in the rate of production of one of the late changes.
In the same way, no decline in resistance against co-trimoxazole was observed in the United Kingdom even 10 years after it abandoned its prescribing, which in this instance was attributed to the co-selection of genetically linked resistance determinants by alternative antimicrobial pressure (24 ).
The beneficial effects of introducing mesopores into the zeolites has in most instances been attributed to improved mass transport to and from the active sites located in the zeolite micropores.
As mouse embryonic stem cells share several characteristics with cancer stem cells, our data support the hypothesis that radioresistance and genomic instability in cancer may in some instances be attributed to changes in activity of DNMTs (e.g., ref. 49).
Indeed, in three of the four tasks (mental arithmetic being the exception), average performance was highest in the silent condition and the failure to observe the detrimental effects of background sound may, at least in some instances, be attributed to a lack of statistical power.
While these unexpected findings may, in some instances, be attributed to inaccuracies in miRNA target prediction algorithms [ 5], recent evidence suggests that many of the unexpected regulatory effects may be the result of feed-back or feed-forward loops and/or other system level complexities [ 3, 6].
The hype around chatbots, for instance, can be attributed to people wanting other ways to access an app's services beyond the app store.
The widespread use of Ag NPs in medicine, for instance, can be attributed to their potent antimicrobial activity against a wide range of pathogenic microorganisms [13].
This instance can be attributed to the complete mobilisation of iron through iron oxyhydroxide precipitation and the availability of calcium ions induced by the dissolution of calcium carbonates present on Xiaheyan outcrops during palaeo-weathering.
