The phrase "an initial effort towards" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the beginning stages of a project, initiative, or action aimed at achieving a specific goal.
Example: "This report outlines an initial effort towards improving our sustainability practices within the company."
Alternatives: "a preliminary attempt at" or "a first step towards".
This can be seen as an initial effort towards the characterization of the whole class of perceptually admissible DAs, a necessary step for the theoretical analysis of the ultimate performance reachable in the presence of watermark desynchronization and for the development of a new class of watermarking algorithms that can efficiently cope with them.
In an initial effort towards the elucidation of the biochemical and physiological nature of ACTA1551 antifungal activity, extracts from solid streptomycete cultures under antagonistic or/and not antagonistic conditions were concentrated and fractionated.
As mentioned above (" Introduction of the AOP concept" section), an initial effort towards creation of possible DNT AOPs from the currently available literature has been initiated (Bal-Price et al. 2015), but there is still a large body of work to be done for accomplishing this task.
This work represents our initial effort towards the fabrication of complex nanopatterns with automated scanning probe lithography (SPL).
Finally, we describe some initial efforts towards developing a common standard for data model quality, which may provide a model for future standardisation efforts.
Initial efforts towards the development of a kit-type formulation analogous to 99mTc have been successful, and are now being shared with other research groups to assess performance in different settings.
The work described here represents initial efforts towards meeting these objectives.
Initial efforts towards this goal were pursued by Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (summarized in this report) and Deltagen.
Initial efforts towards the development of TLR4 antagonists largely focused on structural analogues of Kdo2-lipid A which can bind competitively to the LPS binding sites of the key receptors in the pathway and antagonize LPS/TLR4-dependent signalling.
