The phrase "an initial discovery" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the first finding or realization in a particular context, such as research or exploration.
Example: "The team made an initial discovery that could change the course of their study."
Alternatives: "a preliminary finding" or "an early revelation".
In an initial discovery study of 119 subjects, 7 DJ-1 isoforms were reliably detected, and blood levels of those with 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal modifications were discovered to be altered in late-stage Parkinson disease.
After an initial discovery, explorers drill appraisal wells around it to get a sense of the quality of hydrocarbons and the extent of the reservoir.
This is the first time anyone has applied this technology to study living insects, said Lee, who made an initial discovery two years ago, using a phase-enhanced imaging technique.
"We generally like to see not only an initial discovery in a trial but we like to see confirmatory trials to be sure that in the broadest kind of sense, in the general population that these findings are going to be applicable," says Dr Lawrence Piro, a cancer specialist at The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute.
Rather, these books aim to portray science as a growing body of knowledge in which hard-won insights are modified, supplemented, and extended by further theoretical and empirical study in the years and decades after an initial discovery or novel idea.
The most important of these was to internally validate the SNP associations using a two stage design with an initial discovery cohort (run 1) to identify SNPs of potential interest.
The great initial discovery of 1999 - that a man's monogram could cause his early death was dismaying.
"It is a long, arduous road from the initial discovery of an antibiotic to a clinically used entity". Prof Colin Garner, from Antibiotic Research UK, said finding new antibiotics to treat gram-positive infections like MRSA was good news, but would not address the most pressing need.
Biomarker studies commonly apply a staged approach: initial discovery of highly differentially expressed proteins followed by more careful validation with spiked SIL internal standards to quantify specific proteins.
Only now, more than a decade after the initial discovery, are they taking a closer look.
Mr. Chen said through an interpreter that his initial discovery of the locks having been changed did not unduly concern him.
