The phrase "and developing means to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of creating or improving methods or strategies to achieve a specific goal.
Example: "Our team is focused on identifying challenges and developing means to enhance our productivity."
Alternatives: "and creating ways to" or "and establishing methods to".
Achieving ends requires gathering and cultivating resources, identifying impediments, and developing means to avoid or overcome them.
Quality of life may be approached from an ethical viewpoint if concern with QoL means caring for the patient attentively and benevolently, improving their well-being by responding to their needs, and developing means to alleviate dependence.
It is useful for testing current models of evolution on sequences that have undergone lineage-specific evolution, developing methods to identify such processes in real data, and developing means to account for such processes.
For this reason, inhibition of IKK signaling is widely considered as a promising strategy for treating many illnesses; the challenge however is to fully recognize, and develop means to offset, the potential harmful consequences of pathway inactivation (Baldwin, Jr., 2001; Li et al., 2002; Bacher and Schmitz, 2004; Courtois and Gilmore, 2006; Karin, 2006).
By carrying out the labeling under aerated conditions that are typical of physiological experiments, and by developing means to monitor the overall stability of acetyl-P within our extracts, we were able to greatly improve the accuracy and reproducibility of acetyl-P measurements that had hampered interpretation of previous reports (13 - 17.
Two points should be highlighted: first, that there is necessarily a stage of production (cultivation) that precedes morphological domestication, and archaeobotanists have been developing means to recognize this.
Ethics sections of critical care societies should consider developing means to promote and support research projects that seek to answer these questions.
The biological basis underlying the aging process is a central mystery of science and its resolution is critical for developing means to reduce the harmful outcomes of aging.
Importantly, if recommendations contained within this report are to improve the care of people with asthma, every effort must be made to encourage healthcare leaders to assure global availability of, and access to, medications, and to develop means to implement and evaluate effective asthma management programmes.
It is therefore mandatory to analyze the reasons for nonadherence and to develop means to improve guideline adherence.
The most palpable result of the accident was a grounding of the remaining three shuttles Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour (the last built to replace Challenger)—until NASA and its contractors could develop means to prevent similar accidents, which perhaps would include kits for repairs in orbit.
