The phrase "as used in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the context or manner in which a term or concept is applied within a specific document or discussion.
Example: "The term 'sustainability' is defined as used in a variety of environmental studies."
Alternatives: "as defined in a" or "as referenced in a".
to assess the usefulness of the T-SPOT.TB™ interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA), as used in a regional hospital infectious diseases unit in Northwest England, for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis.
Responses from statement 1 ('A scientific theory that explains a natural phenomenon can be defined as a "best guess" or "hunch"') revealed that 77.6% (n = 59) of participants correctly interpreted the term theory as used in a scientific context whereas 18.4% (n = 14) failed to differentiate between the scientific concept of theory and its usage in common vernacular.
Even a larger optical chamber with a diameter of 25 mm, as used in a previous intrinsic imaging study [29] would be too narrow for a regular microscope lens.
This is in line with the results of Smith (2013), who reported a high positive attitude of students toward recorded lectures as used in a flipped class.
The baseline stimuli consisted of full-color, static images of vehicles presented in random sequence, as used in a previous fNIRS experiment (Lloyd-Fox et al. 2013), and were identical in both experiments.
9 The horizontal axis is the study-specific effect sizes centered to the respective comparison-specific pooled effect size while the vertical axis is the inverted standard error of the effect sizes as used in a standard funnel plot.
Vaccine efficacy endpoints were recorded, as used in a previous Aotus- P. falciparum challenge study (Lyon et al., 2008) and a study of P. knowlesi infection of rhesus macaques (Mahdi Abdel Hamid et al., 2011).
Children kept daily diaries of their respiratory symptoms, giving a score from 0 to 3 for each of six lower respiratory tract symptoms and each of five upper respiratory tract symptoms, as used in a previous study.
Because of a limited number of cohorts with bronchial challenge tests, we were unable to perform a sensitivity analysis defining asthma as new bronchial hyperresponsiveness plus symptoms, as used in a previous study of occupational risk factors for asthma (Kogevinas et al. 2007).
In order to recognise possible dose-response relationships which may not be linear, effects of radon concentrations on childhood cancer risk were investigated for the following pre-defined levels 0 24, 25 49, 50 99, 100 199, and 200+ Bq m−3, as used in a UK study of residential radon exposure and lung cancer risk published earlier (Darby et al, 1998).
In an attempt to simulate the difficulties in comprehension seen in the patient group, and as used in a previous study on post-stroke aphasia (Sharp et al., 2004), the healthy participants had trials on 3-channel noise-vocoded speech functional MRI (Shannon et al., 1995).
