"a chain of effects" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a series of connected events or consequences that result from a particular action or cause. Example: The company's decision to raise prices had a ripple effect, causing a chain of effects that led to a decrease in sales, employee layoffs, and a loss of customers.
The kink is that the police officer uses the moment to save the life of his father, a New York firefighter, by warning him of his impending death, thus setting off a chain of effects that multiply and must eventually be set right.
The variation in average particle size in Figure 5 could be explained as follows: increasing (plume) temperature leads to a chain of effects.
As predicted, both unexpected word forms induced a chain of effects in the auditory evoked potentials.
The physical properties of sounds, and the contexts in which they occur generate a chain of effects modulating the adult auditory evoked potential.
For adults we predict a chain of effects generated by mismatches from the expected word form: short-lasting sub-lexical mismatch effects reflected over the PNP complex, followed by longer-lasting N400 effect indexing semantic integration.
Unexpected word forms induce a chain of effects in the infant auditory evoked potential: short-lasting effects on the early auditory evoked potential followed by a period of long-lasting negativity only achieving statistical significance in the pseudoword condition.
Thus, early adversity appears to set in action a chaining of effects that increase the likelihood of more proximal risk factors in adolescent girls.
Adults showed a chain of discrete effects: positivity over the N1 wave, negativity over the P2 wave (PMN effect) and negativity over the N2 wave (N400 effect).
Barton, B. T. & Ives, A. R. Species interactions and a chain of indirect effects driven by reduced precipitation.
Each one opens a container and affects processes launched within that container, and the emulators can be nested arbitrarily inside each other to build up a chain of emulated effects.
