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Discover LudwigThe phrase "at ascertaining" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts where one is discussing the process of determining or finding out something.
Example: "The committee is focused on at ascertaining the root cause of the issue."
Alternatives: "in determining" or "for finding out".
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The story recounts Mr. Mitchell's efforts at ascertaining the truth behind one of the more colorful denizens of Greenwich Village.
The urgency of Arsenal's pursuit of a striker in the transfer window will be determined by the results of medical tests to be performed on Nicklas Bendtner on Friday aimed at ascertaining his recovery from hernia and groin complaints.
But that is exactly what the budget office says, based on a complex thicket of calculations aimed at ascertaining the effect on the government's bottom line of the law's myriad tax increases, cuts in projected Medicare spending and costs of new benefits, including subsidies to help people buy insurance.
The action is aimed at ascertaining the scope of illegal data-sharing that took place between the NSA and GCHQ.
We aim at ascertaining whether CA is more efficient than stent retriever as a front-line endovascular procedure.
Deterministic methods aimed at ascertaining the impact of design parameters on the overall behaviour of systems are often saddled with underlying assumptions that simplify the randomness in variability.
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Significant increase in modal age-at-death ascertained the dominance of old age mortality over the childhood/adult age mortality.
This study aims at: - ascertaining the effectiveness of the targeting mechanism - measure the changes in the economic condition - health, nutrition and education status - of the FDF program beneficiaries.
Those hints were formerly noticed by Yokoyama and Maeda who reported an equilibrium between the monomeric and dimeric species in ethanol at – 72 °C, ascertained with Raman spectroscopy [44].
SOFA scores were ascertained at baseline and at days 1, 3 and 7 after ICU admission.
Health outcomes were ascertained at interview with the patient and carer at home 90 days (± 7 days) after randomisation.
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