"preliminary formulation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to an initial thought, idea, or plan that is used as the basis for a more concrete plan. For example, "The team developed a preliminary formulation of a strategy to address the issue."
The present paper focuses on only the preliminary formulation of applying WLL to hypocenter determinations.
This is (a simplistic and preliminary formulation of) the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle for position and momentum.
This brings Kant to a preliminary formulation of the CI: 'I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law' (4:402).
The aim of this article is to present a preliminary formulation of the design problem with quantitative transfer functions to which Suh's principles are then applied.
The level 2 intervention will consist of a preliminary formulation of the reasons for regular attendance and a suggested management plan on the basis of the baseline assessment and examination of the practice record.
To fix ingredients type and concentrations, preliminary formulations were tested for their droplet size average and distribution.
This paper is organized as follows: The preliminary problem formulation is given and the bottleneck of the problem is highlighted in the next section.
First, the model structure and parameterization can be refined as contemporary research grows and improves the underlying assumptions used in the preliminary model formulations.
Participation of community partners occurred at the level of: 1) problem definition and conceptualization; 2) collaborative review of preliminary data; 3) formulation of study hypotheses; 4) development of draft proposal for the study; and, 5) formation of two Community Advisory Groups (one in each study jurisdiction) to oversee the study.
From preliminary experiments, a formulation composed of Precirol, Myverol, and Pluronic formed a stable NLC dispersion.
In preliminary analyses, these formulations were unable to explain the time course patterns of arsenic retention and methylation in human hepatocytes (results not shown).
