The phrase "foundational study" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a study or research that serves as the basis or foundation for further studies or theories. Example: "The researchers conducted a foundational study on the effects of climate change on marine life before delving into more specific subtopics within the field."
This foundational study is the first explicit in vivo lineage tracing to identify early molecular markers of preadipocytes and localize these cells to the vasculature.
In this foundational study, the researchers conclude that dynamic changes seen in the fMRI scans reflect the brain's evolving responses to different phases of a symphony.
The available data "quite strongly suggest a cool-down does not reduce postexercise soreness," says Rob Herbert, a senior research fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and senior author of what is probably the foundational study of cooling down, from 2007.
The foundational study was done in partnership with Stacy and the Greater Good Science Center, involving military veterans and youth who had been exposed to environments likely to induce trauma.
The model addresses the foundational study by Lumbreras, González and Lietaer (1976) which posited an acoustic system integral to Chavín architecture involving "a network of resonance rooms connected by sound transmission tubes".
Before the advent of behaviourism, when the science of neurology was still in its infancy, the American philosopher and psychologist William James (1842 1910) brought some of these factors together in his theory of emotion, which he set out in his foundational study The Principles of Psychology (1890).
For the purposes of foundational studies of mathematics, it is assumed that mathematics is consistent; otherwise, any foundation would fail.
Since Libby's foundational studies, tens of thousands of carbon-14 measurements of natural materials have been made.
In this review, we describe some of the foundational studies underpinning the use of heterobivalent degraders for targeted protein degradation.
She conducted foundational studies to apply Statistical Process Control techniques to the software engineering domain using space shuttle software data.
"On the one hand her foundational studies are well in the past; she is obviously a professional who is competing very well among her peers.
