The phrase "acting as a screening" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where something is functioning to filter or evaluate, such as in medical tests or selection processes.
Example: "The preliminary questionnaire is acting as a screening tool to identify suitable candidates for the study."
Alternatives: "serving as a filter" or "functioning as a selection mechanism".
The room faces the driveway, with lush shrubbery acting as a screen and enclosing a tiny patio.
The nanoparticles selectively scatter the targeted wavelength of light that we project (therefore acting as a screen) but let other wavelengths of light pass through (therefore appearing transparent).
It is this notion of willingness, of "want to" or "ought to" acting as a screen for "have to", that makes domesticity so very difficult to radicalise.
Antennas generate a modification on the wind flow around the tower acting as a screen against wind load and transmitting strong efforts to the tower members.
Hockey's power play is still a bit rough-hewn — for example, one player, in close, acting as a screen, the others stitching around him a silhouette of slap shots — and in evolutionary terms has not progressed nearly as far as the fast-weaving passes of lacrosse, which gradually tease apart an open man.
No seropositive samples were detected among animals under 1 year old, most probably because of the limited exposure of young animals to insects and the role of adults acting as a screen protecting young animals [ 36, 37].
This has a leather backing that wraps around the left hand side, much like the spine of a book, before acting as a cover for the screen (and it has space for a credit card facing the screen on the inside).
Paired electric organs of mild power, present in the tail, set up a continuous electric field around the fish, acting as a sensory screen.
Building Integrated Photovoltaic/Thermal (BIPV/T) collectors take up the role of energy and heat production, while acting as a rain-screen cladding.
What she sees through the window is a sort of movie the window acting as a cinema screen, a frame within the frame which prepares her for the new sort of movie she is about to step into.
