The phrase "aim at ascertaining" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the intention or goal of discovering or determining something.
Example: "The research project aims at ascertaining the effects of climate change on local wildlife."
Alternatives: "strive to determine" or "seek to discover".
The urgency of Arsenal's pursuit of a striker in the transfer window will be determined by the results of medical tests to be performed on Nicklas Bendtner on Friday aimed at ascertaining his recovery from hernia and groin complaints.
But that is exactly what the budget office says, based on a complex thicket of calculations aimed at ascertaining the effect on the government's bottom line of the law's myriad tax increases, cuts in projected Medicare spending and costs of new benefits, including subsidies to help people buy insurance.
The action is aimed at ascertaining the scope of illegal data-sharing that took place between the NSA and GCHQ.
Deterministic methods aimed at ascertaining the impact of design parameters on the overall behaviour of systems are often saddled with underlying assumptions that simplify the randomness in variability.
The study is aimed at ascertaining the hours allocated for teaching, supervising postgraduate and undergraduate students, conducting research, publishing, attending conference, providing consultation as well as public services.
The first experiment aimed at ascertaining whether our claim that OT and illusion strength correlate in healthy subjects could be confirmed, even without first suggesting to the participants what type of conscious content was under investigation.
Having detected marked differences in the NSMase activity between probiotic and non-probiotic bacterial sonicates, we next undertook a series of experiments aimed at ascertaining whether the addition of exogenous ceramide to immune cells could reproduce the pro-apoptotic effect observed with probiotic bacteria.
We carried out a cross-sectional study aimed at ascertaining the prevalence of abdominal obesity in Abia State, Nigeria.
The homogeneity of FGDs further aimed at ascertaining the similarities and differences in sub-group perception on the inter-linkages among culture, insecurity and HIV and AIDS.
Within the 'other' approaches it was difficult to determine conclusively whether this was PPI or whether they were examples of data collection aimed at ascertaining the public opinion.
