The phrase "at characterizing the effects" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be a fragment and lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "The researchers focused on at characterizing the effects of the new drug on patients."
Alternatives: "in characterizing the effects" or "for characterizing the effects."
The performance of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) with gas diffusion cathodes having the catalyst layer applied directly onto Nafion membranes is investigated with the aim at characterizing the effects of the Nafion content, the catalyst loading in the electrode and also of the membrane thickness and gases pressures.
Established cultures tend to become less toxic over time, a phenomenon that frustrates efforts at characterizing the effects of environmental conditions on toxicity.
Therefore, we aimed at characterizing the effects of RM and PEEP on the cardiorespiratory function during lung injury induced by surfactant depletion in an experimental model of PHT.
We first describe the results of a transcriptome analysis that characterizes the relative effects on the steady-state mRNAs levels, and then the results of analysis of multiple polysomal fractions aimed at characterizing the effects on ribosomal association.
The present study was aimed at characterizing the effects of infralimbic prefrontal cortex (IL-PFC) DBS on several pre-clinical markers of the antidepressant-like response and at investigating putative non-neuronal mechanism underlying DBS action.
This approach may not be efficient because adjusting for sampling conditions in a regression model aiming at characterizing the effect of exposure on disease risk is unlikely to correct for the effect of sampling conditions on biomarker levels.
Our studies are directed at (1) characterizing the effects of FK506 and RM on human fetal neurons and glia (2) revealing the role played by the immunophilin FKBP receptors and downstream effectors in mediating the effects of FK506 and RM on human brain cells and (3) clarifying the role of immunophilins (IP) in the normal and degenerating human brain.
Compared to the average growing season/spring NDVI, the green-up date is more effective to represent the vegetation dynamics during the dust storm season and is better at characterizing the restraining effects of the vegetation on dust storms (Fan et al. 2014).
Therefore, the present series of experiments aimed at characterizing the central effects of systemic TNF- α injection by combining multiple techniques to quantify neuroinflammation and behavioral changes.
This design provides a pathway for characterizing the effects of imprinted genes on a complex trait or disease at different generations and testing transgenerational changes of imprinted effects.
