The phrase "ability to discern specific" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's skill or capacity to recognize or identify particular details or elements in a given context.
Example: "Her ability to discern specific patterns in the data set allowed the team to make informed decisions."
Alternatives: "capacity to identify particular" or "skill in recognizing specific".
These analyses provide supportive evidence that this chemoresponse assay is a predictive marker, demonstrating its ability to discern specific therapies that are likely to be more effective among multiple alternatives.
Although numerous clinical factors (e.g., age, stage, grade, histology) are used extensively in making treatment decisions especially in the recurrent EOC setting, these factors are limited in their ability to discern specific therapies that are likely to be more effective in second-line treatment and beyond.
The analyses conducted herein address common clinical concerns regarding the predictive properties of a chemoresponse assay (Markman, 2011), including the ability of the assay to discern specific therapies that are likely to be more effective among the multiple clinically relevant treatment options.
But except in our favorites, we were rarely able to discern specific fruit flavors.
This helped to discern specific crops and crop rotations.
We were able to discern specific effects related per se to Apis mellifica from those related to the solvent.
The ability to discern patient-specific impacts at the bedside using the model can provide significant insight.
A distinct advantage of using C. elegans is the ability to discern and quantify the precise cellular complement of specific neuronal classes, permitting us to examine four other neuronal subclasses for sensitivity to the S. venezuelae factor.
Although cell biological and biochemical analyses have allowed us to derive a mechanistic understanding of these processes in model organisms, that is, yeast and humans, comparative genomic analysis has provided the ability to discern between those features that are the result of lineage-specific modification, and those that are necessary for functional transport in diverse eukaryotic organisms.
In MS clinical practice, MS-specific questionnaires are more appropriate due to a better ability to discern QoL differences in patients than the SF-36.
It increases the ability to discern among forms of environmentally encountered information.
