The phrase "a central interest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a primary or main focus of concern or attention in a particular context.
Example: "Environmental sustainability has become a central interest for many organizations in recent years."
Alternatives: "a primary concern" or "a key focus".
Because extrapolation of experimental studies in laboratory animals to the adverse health effect in humans is a central interest, we will be particularly interested in comparing the structure of the gas-exchange region of different species and the implications that these differences in structure have on dosimetry.
American and European post war and contemporary art became a central interest in Hannelore's life.
Mr. Rickey was one of two major 20th-century artists to make movement a central interest in sculpture.
"Violence has always been and remains a central interest of humankind and a recurrent, even obsessive theme of culture both high and low," he wrote.
In an opinion by Judge Richard A. Posner, the appeals court said that "violence has always been and remains a central interest of humankind and a recurrent, even obsessive theme of culture both high and low".
Hence, ecologists and agrology scientists have a central interest in understanding the spatial distribution changes of soil types.
A question of central interest in machine learning can be formulated as a problem of function approximation.
Here a quantity of central interest is the so-called (time-resolved) second order correlation function, here for resonator 2, g ( 2 ) = 〈 a ˆ 2 ( t ) † a ˆ 2 † ( t + τ ) a ˆ 2 ( t + τ ) a ˆ 2 ( t ) 〉 | 〈 a ˆ 2 ( t ) † a ˆ 2 ( t ) 〉 | 2. (6).
The properties of visual search in radiological settings has thus been a question of central interest (Bochud, Abbey, & Eckstein, 2004; Drew, Evans, Vo, Jacobson, & Wolfe, 2013; Eckstein, 2011; Horowitz, 2017; Jiang, Das, & Gifford, 2017; Krupinski, Berger, Dallas, & Roehrig, 2003; Kundel, Nodine, Conant, & Weinstein, 2007; Mello-Thoms, 2006; Nodine & Kundel, 1987; Wolfe et al., 2016).
Data are conflicting on the ability of NIRSth to detect blood loss, an area of central interest in anesthesia.
Mary King, 51, in a fair world whose central interest was in the art of eventing, would be a big story – a clear round in the team event, the chance of a bronze dashed by tragically bumping into something during the individual event.
