The phrase "ascertained simply" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to express that something has been determined or discovered in a straightforward or uncomplicated manner.
Example: "The results of the experiment were ascertained simply by analyzing the data collected over the past month."
Alternatives: "determined easily" or "found out straightforwardly".
These voters should not be disfranchised where their intent may be ascertained with reasonable certainty, simply because the chad they punched did not completely dislodge from the ballot.
But Gore aides were gratified to find that the court quoted from an Illinois Supreme Court opinion that "voters should not be disfranchised where their intent may be ascertained with reasonable certainty, simply because the chad they punched did not completely dislodge from the ballot".
Asserting the paramount importance of an accurate vote count, the court cited with approval the words of the Illinois court: "Voters should not be disfranchised where their intent may be ascertained with reasonable certainty, simply because the chad they punched did not completely dislodge from the ballot," the justices ruled.
CE would yield the size of an amplicon, i.e., equivalent of repeat length, which can be ascertained from sequence data simply by counting the number of nucleotides within the repeat region.
This may be a low level of interpretation, of course; simply ascertaining the correct subject of a sentence where no subject is present, or inferring a verb from a prior occurrence, without going into any metaphysical speculations.
However, there is a relative paucity of data derived from prospective trials in which the use of intraoperative echocardiography has been randomized among various cardiac surgical patient populations to formally ascertain, rather than simply infer, its putative impact on perioperative decision-making and clinical outcomes.
So if the grand jury's stated role is to simply ascertain whether or not there should be a case against the accused, then why are they acting as if this is the trial?
Alternatively, the interviewer may have felt it was more appropriate to simply ascertain if the respondent is under or over 45 years of age (the upper age limit for the survey).
BPC (2009) also recognized that "the quality of peer review varies widely" and that agencies "need to extend their inquiry beyond simply ascertaining whether a paper was peer reviewed," potentially to include "how the peer review was conducted".
Contrary to the implications of your recent articles and editorial about child abuse in the ultra-Orthodox community, the role of the rabbi in cases of suspected abuse is not to dissuade the individual from reporting to the secular authorities, but simply to ascertain that the suspicion meets a certain threshold of credibility.
