The phrase "aiming to discern" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing the intention to understand or perceive something clearly.
Example: "The researchers are aiming to discern the underlying patterns in the data collected from the experiment."
Alternatives: "seeking to understand" or "striving to perceive".
The authors of early bumble bee foraging papers were not aiming to discern whether net rate or efficiency is the currency being maximized; therefore the scales they used were not inappropriate.
Aiming to discern the subtle regulatory effects, we employed a novel network-based analysis.
Aiming to discern a global effect of CDKN2B on these 259 genes, we performed an association analysis between the promotive or inhibitory effects of the genes versus their positive or negative correlation with CDKN2B expression.
A body of commentary on sacred Hebrew writings, primarily the Torah but also early mystical texts, it aims to discern and illuminate hidden meanings within those works.
We aimed to discern program director (PD) perceptions of RPC participants as an initial means of analysis.
Through performing a retrospective, case-control study, we aimed to discern if, in addition to surgical factors, specific demographic and clinical variables predispose patients to vaginal cuff dehiscence following varying modes of total hysterectomy.
This study aims to discern the domestic gray water (GW) sources that is least polluting, at the urban households of India, by examining the GW characteristics, comparing with literature data, reuse standards and suitable treatment technologies.
Thereafter, the mentor and nurse collaboratively aimed to discern whether lung sliding was present, utilizing the diagnostic algorithms for pneumothorax detection promulgated by the World International Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound [10].
Now, since the quest for truth takes place in and by language conceived as a kind of instrument, it is unnecessary to imagine that they aim to discern or expound the true.
This approach, speculative and meta-historical, aims to discern large, embracing patterns and directions in the unfolding of human history, persistent notwithstanding the erratic back-and-forth of particular historical developments.
We aimed to discern differences in fearfulness in female offspring born and raised in conventional single-doe housing (1 doe + litter/cage) and in semi-group housing (1 doe + litter/cage until the litter was 18 days old, 4 does + 4 litters/pen thereafter).
