The phrase "a discrete focus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific, distinct area of attention or concentration within a broader context.
Example: "In this research paper, we will maintain a discrete focus on the effects of climate change on marine biodiversity."
Alternatives: "a specific focus" or "a distinct focus".
"The geographic scope has narrowed from a global effort to a discrete focus on the European Union and Switzerland," one NSA document states.
It also reflects the emergence of architecture as a discrete focus of aesthetics and other art-centered investigations, with connections to yet other areas in philosophy.
The Framework for 21st Century Learning presents a holistic view of 21st century teaching and learning that combines a discrete focus on 21st century student outcomes (a blending of specific skills, content knowledge, expertise and literacies) with innovative support systems to help students master the multi-dimensional abilities required of them in the 21st century.
Instead, it localized as a discrete focus that co-localized with a region of the Ndc1-mTurquoise2 ring.
Each microwave application produces a discrete focus of necrosis, e.g. a single treatment for 120 s at 60 W provides approximately 1.6 cm of necrosis.
All the systems we have described in this paper are clustered: rDNA repeats are arranged in tandem, telomeres are known to cluster together at various points in the cell cycle (Gotta et al., 1996), and high-copy 2µ plasmids exist in a discrete focus that is vital for copy number maintenance (Velmurugan et al., 2000; Wong et al., 2002).
A nested pilot study of 26 consecutive men with a visible discrete focus on mpMRI, correlating with positive histology on transperineal template mapping biopsy, who underwent focal HIFU (Sonablate 500®) within a prospective, Ethics Committee-approved multicentre trial ('INDEX'INDEX
Beyond a specific and discrete focus on women with chronic health conditions, there is also a need to expand the research scope to include other stakeholders such as women's partners and health care providers.
In control cells, most poly(A)+RNA was cytoplasmic, except for a few discrete foci in nuclei, as observed previously [25].
18 We sought to build on these findings in the light of increasing evidence that FCD contributes to an epileptic network rather than forming a discrete epileptic focus, which has implications for successful surgical treatment.
Dysplasia in patients with sporadic CRC is usually the adenomatous polyp (adenoma), a discrete neoplastic focus; in contrast, CAC develops from dysplastic lesions that can be polyploid, flat, localized, or multifocal.
