The phrase "a method of ascertaining" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a technique or process for determining or finding out information.
Example: "The researchers developed a method of ascertaining the effectiveness of the new drug through clinical trials."
Alternatives: "a technique for determining" or "a process for finding out".
Based on energy storage technology, a method of ascertaining minimal system configuration is designed to perform the sizing optimization and reveal the correlations between the system cost and the system efficiency.
Verbal autopsy, as a method of ascertaining causes of death has increasingly been recommended, especially when death occurs outside of health facilities and without the presence of a medically trained person to assign a cause of death [ 20, 23– 25].
Researchers and clinicians are seeking a method of ascertaining the functional severity of the OA, which ideally can be used alongside X-ray data, to detect early stage OA [ 9].
A second method of ascertaining exposure to antineoplastic drugs (method 2) was based on telephone interviews with pharmacists and with senior nurses in nursing departments from all 94 general hospitals (357 departments) and 19 diagnostic and treatment centers in BC.
Two of the main challenges to ensuring that SSI surveillance adequately incorporates post discharge SSIs are: the lack of a validated method of ascertaining cases of SSI post discharge; the paucity of studies comparing different methods in a consistent way (large variations in definition of SSIs; staffing, setting, data sources and timings used in existing studies).
It is widely accepted that DLS is not a suitable method of ascertaining the size of carbon nanotubes (due to the fact that the machine measures size based on the principle that particles are spherical and well dispersed), hence we examined how the two MWCNTs behave in our two chosen media utilising light microscopy.
The National Death Index has been shown to be an accurate method of ascertaining deaths in observational studies, having high sensitivity (96%) and specificity (100%) (21).
Griffiths et al. (2007) devised an ingenious method of ascertaining the occurrence of nocturnal CO2 fixation by examining the response of the night-time CO2 exchange rate to intercellular CO2 concentration (Ci).
Mortality surveillance was by the National Death Index, which has been shown to be an accurate method of ascertaining deaths in observational studies, with high sensitivity (96%) and specificity (100%).
We have developed a data-reduction method of ascertaining informative families from population-based family registers.
A more objective method of ascertaining prenatal exposure is the measurement of exposure-specific biomarkers in biological matrices of mother and/or child.
