The phrase "a moderate shift to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes or transitions that are not extreme but rather moderate in nature.
Example: "The company is experiencing a moderate shift to remote work policies as employees seek more flexibility."
Alternatives: "a slight transition towards" or "a gradual move to".
The DOC caused a moderate shift in the particle size/volume distribution to smaller particles and a reduction of particle volume concentrations at some of the tested conditions for both fuels.
To conclude, even a moderate shift within the limited optimal time window for reproduction can carry costs which may increase selection pressure on the young.
In addition, a moderate shift and the intensity vibration of 1533 cm-1 to 1535 cm-1 indicates the structural change that occurred in CT-DNA.
(2) The binding specificity profiles of the new compounds fall into two classes: six that remained potent or had a moderate shift against the mutant panel (<50-fold affinity loss) and two that were more susceptible to resistance mutations (>80-fold affinity loss).
The signal from the nearly geogenic layer overlying the Middle Paleolithic material includes a moderate shift in the proportion of cold tundra adapted species, suggesting that the tundra expanded leading up to the Neanderthal depopulation, but no period of drastic climatic change is recognizable.
Now, President Obama's team looks prescient for arguing that the deal was essential for any hope of bringing about a moderate shift in the Islamic Republic.
A moderate shift in end products of fermentation occurred with both types of rumen liquor, but mainly at low ruminal pH (i.e., 5.5), suggesting a selective toxicity of these EO against rumen bacterial strains that grow at low rumen pH.
We did find a moderate shift towards use of the most expensive test, colonoscopy, over time.
Taken together, these data suggest a moderate shift towards an increase in de novo PC synthesis from diacylglycerol and PE.
In general, restricting conformations to be maximally compact leads to larger changes in the model genotype-phenotype mapping than a moderate shifting of reference state energy of the model potential function to allow for more specific encoding via the "designing out" effects of repulsive interactions.
