"a mere application of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something simple, such as a process or a concept. For example, "The success of this project was a mere application of basic mathematics."
The project involves more than a mere application of another layer of paint.
Belton cannot reasonably be explained as a mere application of Chimel.
Given the military realities of the age, Sazonov's notion of Russian mobilization as a mere "application of pressure" was either disingenuous or foolish.
Heuristic solution approaches to the design of Pedibus lines have been proposed in the literature, considering Pedibus as a mere application of the school bus routing problem.
The wholly inadequate interpretation of Beauvoir's philosophical thought as a mere application of Jean-Paul Sartre's is a good example of the limitations of this strategy.
In particular, there was a mere application of the zoning criteria with which, often arbitrarily, the various functions were spatially divided with a separation between outstanding and ordinary territorial features.
It is notified that the novelty of the presented methodology is beyond a mere application to water resources, and can also be used in other fields of sciences and engineering.
The mere application of a BLAST algorithm would not be a sufficient remedy as it uses a heuristic approach and does not address properties specific to mtDNA, such as phylogenetically stable but also rapidly evolving insertion and deletion events.
But you don't achieve results like this with the mere application of a formula.
The main aim of this work is to design a heat triggered transdermal drug delivery system (TDDS) using a thermoresponsive polymer, poly (N-vinyl caprolactam) [PNVCL] based gel, where in patients can themselves administer a pulse of drug on mere application of heat pad over the TDDS, whenever pain is experienced.
These effects preclude a priori the application of chromatographic extraction methods without the separation of matrix elements, as for example in the Lariviere et al. (2003) method, or in the mere application of a Sr resin in order to eliminate polyatomic interferences.
