The phrase "a minimal framework" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a basic or simplified structure that provides essential support or guidance for a project, system, or concept.
Example: "The software development team decided to implement a minimal framework to streamline the project and focus on core functionalities."
Alternatives: "a basic structure" or "a simplified framework."
This provides a minimal framework to study reduction, supervenience, or emergence relations (Kim 1998; Stephan 1999) which can yield both monistic and dualistic pictures.
But although the show operated within such a minimal framework, things were a bit more complicated behind the scenes.
Based upon a wide variety of biochemical, genetic, and genomic experiments and conventional wisdom, we and others (see Ref. [8], and references therein) devised a minimal framework for the assembly of the transcription machinery through the TATA binding protein (TBP) at all measurable promoters, using the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model system.
Just the isolation date, 5 years apart, gives a minimal framework for the endurance of this clonal lineage.
Within this general framework, and using a minimal model of thermally assisted depinning with essentially only one adjustable parameter, we find that our theory fits the strain-hardening data for Cu over a wide range of temperatures and six decades of strain rate.
Essentially, it consists of two horizontal trays of thick plastic, both about ten inches deep, one above the other, suspended in a strong but minimal framework of aluminum.
It should be noted that a minimal information framework for publications might significantly differ from a framework for populating large databases including content and syntax [ 25].
We developed a minimal modelling framework where we could examine the interaction of pathways with shared components.
This is the minimal framework to guarantee existence of the minimizers at each step, and to get estimates as in (2.11) providing the existence of a limit curve.
And with that minimal framework in mind, I set off on my 30-day fictional journey.
This is far from enough, however, because mission-specific properties and performance metrics will require verification, also, and the mission-specific software will typically be much more complex than the minimal framework.
