The phrase "aimed at ascertaining the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the purpose of an action or research that seeks to determine or find out specific information.
Example: "The study was aimed at ascertaining the effectiveness of the new teaching method on student performance."
Alternatives: "intended to determine the" or "designed to find out the".
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.
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.
This, together with longitudinal studies, aimed at ascertaining whether the low NKT cells numbers in these patients predated the manifestation of cancer, would help further the understanding of the relationship between NKT cell numbers and cancer.
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.
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.
This puzzling array of molecular and functional properties ascribed to the dysbindin protein from brain underscores the need of further research aimed at ascertaining its biological significance in health and disease.
This was an exploratory investigation aimed at ascertaining whether or not depressive symptoms might be related to a determined period of the medical course of study in order to generate hypotheses for future studies.
