potential contribution

collocation in English

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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk
/pəˈten.ʃəl/
us
/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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contribution
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌkɒn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
us
/ˌkɑːn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
something that you contribute or do to help produce or achieve something together with other people, or to help make ...
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We therefore developed regression equations for inventory effort and efficiency that model thepotentialcontributionof all factors.
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First we address the question of thepotentialcontributionof qualitative research for delivering specific kinds of data.
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To explore thepotentialcontributionof disordered impulse control on task performance both accuracy measures and reaction times are reported.
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One study examined thepotentialcontributionof right hemisphere dysfunction to the communicative impairments of autism.
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To this end, we focus on thepotentialcontributionof models of political economy as a mechanism for understanding priority-setting decisions.
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This would also serve to quantify thepotentialcontributionto national yield reduction, of which one third remained unexplained after this study.
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Thepotentialcontributionof self-experimentation to idea generation remains largely unexplored.
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Here, we evaluate thepotentialcontributionof organic agriculture to the global food supply.
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First, thepotentialcontributionof the construction to the overall spread of the progressive will be investigated.
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Thepotentialcontributionof the current study is two-fold.
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Since the early 1980s, interest in participatory crop research has grown in recognition of itspotentialcontributionto research efficiency and impact.
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We can recognize thepotentialcontributionhere of market-widening, fertility change, the increasing importance of human capital or other structural factors.
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Mutation rates are now known to be higher and theirpotentialcontributionis well noted.
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As such, thepotentialcontributionof physiotherapists is enormous.
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True, by value-humanism, the value of anything lies in its actual orpotentialcontributionto human interests.
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Nevertheless, these findings do not necessarily negate thepotentialcontributionof verbal deficits in predisposing to persistent antisocial behavior.
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Thepotentialcontributionthat friendship can make to the physical and mental wellbeing of an older person has been the subject of several studies.
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However, thepotentialcontributionof most grain legumes for maintaining soil fertility is low compared with cover crops.
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Two considerations are pertinent regarding thepotentialcontributionof exports to economic growth in that state.
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Anotherpotentialcontributionof the observed differences is that they serve as clues to the genes involved in the development of the common network.
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