The phrase "a preliminary method for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing an initial approach or technique that is intended to be further developed or tested.
Example: "This paper presents a preliminary method for assessing the environmental impact of urban development."
Alternatives: "an initial approach for" or "a preliminary technique for".
A preliminary method for extraction of soluble nutrients from organic materials is presented that investigates important characteristics of design for efficient extraction.
The analysis of an acknowledged systems of systems (SoS) meta-architecture requires a preliminary method for potential trade space exploration to ensure compliance to evolving capability requirements.
Although this approach may be limited to situations of unvegetated surfaces, it provides a preliminary method for land managers and policymakers to estimate potential wind erosion changes in response to land use change.
The analytical formulas introduced in this section can be used to verify the followed numerical results, and they also provide a preliminary method for the design and check of the cantilever deck in view of suppressing obvious resonance responses of the plate.
One preliminary method for assessing whether such harmonizing options are viable is to examine the associations that harmonized variables display with related predictors/outcomes in cohort subsamples in which it is believed these variables should display similar effects and determine whether cohort influenced the observed associations (i.e., [ 49]).
It might be applicable to other plant families rich in secondary compounds and could be used as a preliminary screening method for extraction of these elements.
This makes milling pretreatment a good choice of preliminary pretreatment method for a wide variety of lignocellulosic feed stocks.
The development of modifying factors for BaP was previously discussed in the use of a preliminary BMD method to derive a guideline value for BaP (Fitzgerald 1998).
Let some preliminary method (see NEXT-peak algorithm for detail) flag possible cross-links in candidate genomic regions R r (r = 1, …, S).
AA stretching may be especially effective as an alternative or preliminary training method for frail elders who do not have the physical working capacity to perform more intense interventions such as resistance or cardiovascular training.
An efficient preliminary design method for phasing maneuver is developed.
