The phrase "ability to observe a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or skill to notice or perceive something, often in a specific context.
Example: "Her ability to observe a subtle change in the patient's condition made her an exceptional nurse."
Alternatives: "capacity to notice a" or "skill in perceiving a".
"To some extent, I think he's as good at that as I've ever seen, and his ability to observe a horse and understand what the horse wants to do is extraordinary," Janney said.
Dr Pete Burnap said: "The ability to observe a large portion of the population in near real-time via social media networks provides those responsible for ensuring the safety of the public a new window onto mass social reaction".
Thomas (2017) has shown that previous experience can shape the size and nature of the near-hands advantage, and it is possible that participants' previous tablet and smartphone experience may have also interfered with our ability to observe a near-hands advantage.
I'm afforded not just cheap and delicious eats, but also an ability to observe a place's food culture in the process.
Any errors in prediction of miRNA target sites would undermine our ability to observe a correlation between miRNA and mRNA expression.
However, these issues would reduce our ability to observe a difference between intervention and control group and therefore would constitute a conservative bias.
Nevertheless, we believe it is most likely that the location of the MBP-tag is critical for the ability to observe an interaction between Rio2 and Tsr1 as well as Dim2/Pno1.
To improve our ability to observe an effect of reduced temperature or 4PBA, we first established the kinetics of COL4A1 secretion in Col4a1 +/+ and Col4a1 +/Δex41 MEFs.
A third possible explanation particular to this study is that the large number of lifetime abstainers and relatively small number of current, past week drinkers may have limited the study's ability to observe an association.
As this study was not designed or powered to assess pregnancy outcomes, many of the pregnant women did not receive the intervention until quite late in gestation limiting the ability to observe an effect on pregnancy outcome.
