The phrase "as initial test" is not correct in standard written English.
It should be "as an initial test" to be grammatically correct.
Example: "As an initial test, we will evaluate the system's performance under various conditions."
Alternatives: "as a preliminary test" or "as a first test".
"It should be possible to manufacture and sell Pump 'n' Bounce for about £15, and players will be able to recoup their costs fairly quickly, as initial tests have shown that it is possible to double if not treble the lifetime of a tennis ball using this kind of system".
We based our implementation on the monolithic single process programming model, as initial tests showed that, multi-threaded extensions to the NCTUns framework were causing instability issues.
These findings warrant confirmation and consequently, we are planning a large-scale prospective study to evaluate the clinical utility of pleural fluid DNA integrity index and mesothelin as initial tests in patients with pleural effusions.
In other words, updating one's risk based on an affected sibling's genotype would be expected to change one's predicted risk 57% (0.02/0.035) as much as the initial test (in the unselected population, this value is 50%).
On each test, the questions appeared in random order, and which test was given as the initial test or as the final cued-recall test was counterbalanced across participants.
For TB detection, Xpert could be used as an initial test or as an add-on test following a negative smear microscopy result.
MTBDR sl would be used as an initial test replacing phenotypic culture-based DST as the initial test.
Based in San Francisco, Mozio will initially use the Bay Area's three airports (San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose) as its initial test market, allowing travelers to search for limos, taxis, shared-ride shuttles, rideshare and airporters that can take them to or from the airport.
As an initial test, results were compared with the ODE solution (as described in Figure 1) and the experiment results in Kholodenko et al [12].
To assess the diagnostic accuracy of Xpert for pulmonary TB (TB detection), both where Xpert was used as an initial test replacing microscopy, and where Xpert was used as an add-on test following a negative smear microscopy result.
