The phrase "applied to ascertain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing methods or techniques used to determine or find out information.
Example: "The statistical methods applied to ascertain the effectiveness of the new drug yielded promising results."
Alternatives: "used to determine" or "employed to find out".
Analysis of variance is also applied to ascertain statistically significant factors contributing to surface roughness.
It does not even declare what principles are to be applied to ascertain whether it be due process.
The developed model was calibrated, validated and applied to ascertain its suitability.
The classical modal expansion method is applied to ascertain dynamic responses of beams due to arbitrarily distributed continuous loads.
Time-concentration-superposition (TCS) principles are applied to ascertain the effect of NPs on dynamics at the gel point.
In addition, growth density (GD) with buffer zone analysis was applied to ascertain urban movement from the city center.
Since the late 1980s, when it was generally agreed that microorganisms played a considerable role in the preservation of art objects and historical buildings, significant effort was applied to ascertaining the biodiversity in the component materials of works of art.
Our risk assessment model can be also applied to ascertaining women with the risk higher than 75% of the underlying population that may require mammography in combination with ultrasound and 90% that may need mammography combined with MRI, which were consistent with the previous findings (Kriege et al, 2004; Boyd et al, 2007).
The model was fitted using only normal, disease-free individuals and then, as far as we are able to ascertain, applied to all (diseased and disease-free) individuals.
The purposes of this review were (a) to identify studies employing an implementation framework in this field; (b) map the literature to better understand these frameworks and the ways in which they are being applied; (c) to ascertain the ways in which implementation frameworks are being tested; and (d) to describe the current state of evidence surrounding their use in the field.
In addition to determining continental ancestry for individuals without significant admixture, we applied CoAIMs to ascertain admixture proportions of individuals of self declared race.
