The phrase "a little background knowledge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a topic or providing context that may help the reader understand the subject better.
Example: "Before we dive into the main discussion, let me provide a little background knowledge on the history of the issue."
Alternatives: "some basic context" or "a bit of context".
They are therefore particularly suited to study the reliability of published research at the beginning of a research program, when little background knowledge is available and priors of the tested hypotheses are low.
Just as many educators mentioned the importance of teaching the civil rights movement in the context of African-American history as a whole, since many students bring very little background knowledge to the subject.
This paper demonstrates how machine learning methods can be applied to deal with a real-world decipherment problem where very little background knowledge is available.
Each chapter is written in a comprehensive manner appropriate for all, ranging from those with little background knowledge in uterine cancer to experts in the field.
In addition to the relatively little background knowledge on cassava in plant science research, an abundance of research questions about the cassava plant remain to be revealed, especially the regulation underlying the starch biosynthesis.
Dave Geiger, a veterinary neurologist near Santa Fe, believes that animal chiropractic has the potential to be harmful because "it's performed by practitioners who often have very little background knowledge of veterinary neurology — or veterinary medicine at all — and thus are unable to fairly evaluate the theoretical or actual effects of their practices".
Why We Chose These: It is a daunting task to plan to teach the Sept. 11 attacks and how they changed our world, especially to students who were too young to remember the day, or have precious little background knowledge about it.
Nonetheless, recent applications of these algorithms in the biomedical literature for data with many variables and little background knowledge have been interesting [ 55].
