The phrase "and observed the ability" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the act of noticing or recognizing someone's skills or capabilities in a particular context.
Example: "During the evaluation, the committee and observed the ability of each candidate to handle complex tasks."
Alternatives: "and noted the capability" or "and recognized the skill".
We also simulate the dynamics of a vesicle traveling through a narrow channel and observe the ability of the lubricated method to capture the vesicle motion on relatively coarse fluid grids.
Union was declared through observing bridging callus on anteroposterior, lateral and oblique views; this was confirmed clinically by dynamising the fixator and observing the ability of the patient to walk and perform a single-leg stance on the affected limb without pain, instability or deformation at the fracture site.
Mattox and Von Hoff first observed the ability of poorly differentiated patient-derived HNC cells to grow in soft agar in 1980 [32] ,[33]
For over 200 years homeopaths have observed the ability of many conventional drugs to suppress acute illness into more deep chronic illness.
3. Matthew Panzarino spent some time at Pixar, and observed the company's ability to solve technical and creative problems through tool building.
Low or high doses of lychee flower honey (2.19 or 4.39 g/kg body weight, respectively) were single orally administrated 30 min before the ethanol intoxication of mice, followed by recording the locomotor activity by autonomic activity instrument and observing the climbing ability after alcohol.
But anecdotally, she observes, the ability of women and minorities to adapt to and overcome social obstacles seems to make them better team players.
Interest to the spectator lies in observing the ability of one player to defeat another by well-thought-out strategy.
Note that we also ran TreeFix-DTL with event costs set to 1 each and observed that the ability to infer gene trees accurately were only slightly affected (Supplementary Fig. S3); this suggests robustness to the exact event costs used.
Accordingly, we and others have observed near complete absence of SCFAs in germ-free mice and, herein, observed that the ability of inulin to increase gut mass was absolutely dependent on the presence of a gut microbiota, suggesting that SCFA production might contribute to inulin's beneficial effects observed in our model.
