The phrase "as a method of identifying" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a technique or approach used to recognize or determine something.
Example: "The researcher employed a survey as a method of identifying the preferences of the participants."
Alternatives: "as a means of identifying" or "as a technique for identifying".
Manufacturers of the rival Google Android phones are exploring the potential of voice recognition, iris scanners, behavioural biometrics and even heartbeat reading as a method of identifying someone.
Later systems for source-code maintenance exploited the sequence numbers as a method of identifying card-images, in systems where all 80 columns were readable, such as when jobstreams were transferred from card to tape, typically by using an IBM 1401.
This allows the use of hybrid nanocomplex in this modification (NPs + cholesterol + DiI) as a method of identifying local accumulation of nanocomplexes in cancer cells [26, 27].
She thus follows pragmatic methodology in its claim that it eschews essentialism, construed as a method of identifying fixed and unchanging features of a given concept, practice or entity.
We must point out that this method would only work as a method of identifying candidate zones for large historical or palaeo-earthquakes in cases where there is modern-day seismicity.
Each study, along with another Canadian study (Harrop et al. 2007) on mortality rates which was not specifically noted as having larger disparity, used area-based census as a method of identifying Aboriginal populations.
Clinically, the presence of an early BCW in the branch PAs could be used as a supplementary method of identifying patients with PH.
The use of time series displays has been recognized as a robust method of identifying and visualizing patterns in complex systems [ 23].
We take these statements as a primary method of identifying articles reporting on research that produced the kind of data deposited in public repositories.
An inductive (bottom-up) thematic analysis was used as a systematic method of identifying themes or patterns within the data (Braun & Clark, 2006).
Recently, PA imaging has been proposed as a noninvasive method of identifying sentinel lymph nodes and guiding fine needle aspiration or core needle biopsies.
