The phrase "able to detect whether" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capability to identify or determine a specific condition or state.
Example: "The new software is able to detect whether the system is functioning properly or not."
Alternatives: "capable of identifying if" or "able to ascertain whether".
"The monitor is able to detect whether a cow is ill or on heat.
The Endo-Pat, as the device is called, is able to detect whether a person's arteries are losing their elasticity.The Endo-Pat has two small probes, which are attached to the patient's index fingers.
This can clearly distinguish the four DNA letters, A, C, G and T. It may also be able to detect whether a letter is methylated, though this has not yet been independently verified.Methylation, the addition to a base of a group of three hydrogens and a carbon atom, is one way in which genes are regulated.
c) Crossver control parameter ISADE is able to detect whether the height of C r values are useful.
It is therefore important to be able to detect whether a meme is being artificially promoted at the very moment it becomes wildly popular.
"It is going to impact those least able to detect whether they are paying the wrong amount of tax," said Chas Roy-Chowdhury, of the ACCA tax body.
Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin, who is a member of the coaches' subcommittee of the competition committee, echoed the reservation during the A.F.C. coaches' breakfast about how officials would be able to detect, in real time, whether a running back was lowering his head to protect the ball and himself or lowering it to strike a blow.
MIRA was able to detect discontinuities in concrete, whether they are cracks, delamination at an interface of two concrete slabs, mudballs, or reinforcing steel.
The variability of the data in the two replicates was too high to be able to detect with acceptable statistical likelihood whether individual lRNAs had differential accumulation in WT or attex1 plants.
The ILD and LRTs were both able to detect incongruence but not to indicate whether any subsets of markers were homogeneous.
From a practical point of view the key question is whether the 4DSQ anxiety scale is able to detect the various specific anxiety disorders equally well (e.g., whether the scale will detect social phobia as well as panic disorder).
