The phrase "able to test whether" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the capability to evaluate or determine the validity of a condition or hypothesis.
Example: "The software is able to test whether the input data meets the required criteria before processing."
Alternatives: "capable of assessing if" or "able to determine whether".
Many of the Dyen list cognates are marked uncertain, so Dr. Gray was able to test whether omission of the doubtful cognates made any difference (it did not).
However, Teicher's team was able to test whether a history of depression or post-traumatic stress disorder might explain his observed effects of childhood maltreatment on the hippocampus, and showed that the results were independent of these factors.
This second study mainly replicated our findings of the first study, but we were also able to test whether the relationship between sleep and relationship quality varied over time.
It feels like such a boon for creativity, to be able to create something and see it immediately (like the best parts of coding, being able to test whether your code works immediately, and see results), vs. say, painting with oils or photography with film.
As the sample of dense planets with well-constrained masses and radii continues to grow, we will be able to test whether the fixed compositional model found for the seven dense planets considered in this paper extends to the full population of 1 6 M⊕ planets.
By sampling the macroalgae of a subtidal reef near Perth Australiaa), dominated by the small kelp Ecklonia radiata, every ∼40 days over a 2-year period, we were able to test whether temporal changes in species richness, assemblage structure and species turn-over were related to seasonal changes in surface temperature, solar radiation and wave height.
The researchers have not been able to test directly whether black birds prefer black mates, a behavior that could cause the species to split, but other research shows that at least some territorial birds rely on the same cues to pick mates as to detect intruders.
A recent GWAS on hip and/or knee OA has identified a variant in the FTO gene, rs8044769, as being strongly associated with risk of OA. 11 Because of the study design, the authors were not able to test thoroughly whether the association between FTO and OA was mediated by obesity or not.
Further research would be able to test this, investigating whether low physical activity levels were a cause or an effect of themes from this study.
With offices in Sweden and Shanghai, Wheelys is able to test in different retail environments — whether it's a rural area where the nearest store is a 20-minute drive away or a location in a densely populated city.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.06901.003 An advantage of LactC2 is that it does not require Ca2+ to bind PtdSer (Shi et al., 2006; Kay and Grinstein, 2011), so we were able to use it to test whether ANO6-elicited PtdSer exposure requires Ca2+.
