‘Our’ is a personal pronoun and, like other personal pronouns (I, we, and my), is not suitable to academic texts.
Another option was Adopting this methodology, the present study provides . . ., but this was not a good choice. Do you know WHY. Because it changes the content. The author is talking here about ‘objective’ (which is reflected in the edited version by ‘aims to’).
So, why not The present study’s objective is to . . .?? It can be the matter of preference, I accept that, but I preferred The present study aims to because verbs are generally stronger than nouns. Verbs have action and dynamicity in themselves, while nouns tend to be passive and static.
You say, which one can make your writing stronger.
