The phrase "a given patch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific area or section that has been identified or designated for a particular purpose.
Example: "In the experiment, we focused on a given patch of land to study the effects of soil composition on plant growth."
Alternatives: "a specific area" or "a designated section".
Not grazing so many animals on a given patch of land would discourage transmission.That, though, would bring problems of its own, as it would reduce the number of animals which could be raised on a given farm.
In many parts of the world, the details of what's being cut where and when are splotchy, making managing a given patch of forest — let alone an entire country's holdings — tricky.
In computer simulation studies, Dr. Smuts and her colleagues modeled two types of group-living agents that would behave like herbivores: one that would selfishly consume all the food in a given patch before moving on, and another that would consume resources modestly rather than greedily, thus allowing local plant food to regenerate.
Corot, which Dr. Borucki called "a complementary mission," also looks at a given patch of stars for only a few months and so would miss the successive transits of an Earth-like planet, which, to be habitable, would have to take about a year to orbit a Sun-like star.
The model attempts to capture the spatial relationship among the pixels within a given patch, which is essential for deconvolution.
The patches are extracted and clustered into these directional template clusters by a correlation between a given patch and the template.
I don't know anyone (who has ever given Patch a moment's thought) who has regarded it as anything but preposterous.
The highest similarity score for all warps tested is used for each given patch.
Participants were given patches of one of three strengths, or a placebo.
It is this variability that we wish to capture and account for with our multi-patch correlation model in Section 1. Figure 2 Selection of similar patches (green) from a given reference patch (red) within a search window.
Moreover, as more females contribute eggs to a given 'patch' of hosts, LMC (competition among relatives) will be ameliorated and less-biased sex ratios will be favoured.
