"Diminish performance" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is commonly used in a professional setting to indicate that something has been done to reduce the quality or quantity of a task or activity. For example, "The new policy has diminished the performance of the sales team."
Pay-for-performance chief executive compensation and free iPods for hardworking students "can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, and crowd out good behavior," Mr. Pink writes.
In his best-selling book, Drive, author Daniel Pink describes the "seven deadly flaws" associated with the concept of carrots and sticks: they extinguish intrinsic motivation, they diminish performance, they crush creativity, they can crowd out good behavior, they can encourage cheating, shortcuts and unethical behavior, they can become addictive and they can foster short term thinking.
If the assembly was designed such that the adjacent pipe in the assembly was at different temperatures, then, of course, this would diminish performance because of thermal shunting.
Thus, exposure to the worm did have a clear social influence effect, but only in one direction: social influence was able to diminish performance evaluations but not improve them.
Stress is a hazard of medical training and can inhibit learning and diminish performance.
The extent to which acute stress during a simulation activity may augment or diminish performance and learning however, remains unclear [ 5].
What looks impressive are highly visual pitch charts that can be summoned for any particular period, with parameters including arm angles that can, based on diminishing performance, suggest physical injury.
If the temperature falls below the freezing point of the electrolyte, the cell will usually produce very little useful current and may actually change internal dimensions, resulting in internal damage and diminished performance even after it has warmed up again.
And it orders Intel to maintain an access point to its chips — known as a PCI Express Bus — for at least six years to ensure rivals' processors will be able to work atop Intel's chips without suffering any diminished performance.
The consequence of this is diminished performance.
Conversely, too large a number of units may lead to overlearning, which causes diminished performance.
