The phrase "ability of the agent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the capabilities or skills of an individual or entity acting on behalf of another, often in fields like law, business, or technology.
Example: "The ability of the agent to negotiate effectively can significantly impact the outcome of the deal."
Alternatives: "capability of the agent" or "competence of the agent."
None of this, importantly, requires 'regulative' control: a control involving the ability of the agent to choose and act differently in the actual circumstances.
One avenue to knowledge in this case lies in the ability of the agent to provide a proof of the relevant proposition.
Autonomy, in these cases, applies not only to the ability of the agent to produce correct outputs without human guidance, but also to its ubiquity and/or portability, low-power consumption and integrability.
Together, the time course of brain lesion appearance, i.e. months not days, the ability of the agent to survive the oral challenge route, the absence of brain histopathology in any of the control groups and the production of novel histological lesions in both the BSE- and the scrapie-challenged fish, in the absence of inflammation, however, make this possibility a remote one.
For example, by identifying and deleting virulence genes in a virus or a bacterium, one can reduce the ability of the agent to cause disease.
The ability of the agent to grow saprophytically and replicate in these substrata (i.e., not only to survive or contaminate them secondarily) are the most important characteristics of a sapronotic microbe.
These activities involve the mastery of the many sub-activities that constitute a complex activity with goals that challenge abilities of the agent.
They suggest that the clinical efficacy of adjuvant trastuzumab may relate to the ability of this agent to target the CSC population in a process that does not require HER-2 gene amplification (Ithimakin et al, 2013).
The effect of metformin on endothelial function could be related to the ability of this agent to prevent the angiogenic switch, reducing tumor incidence (10).
The ability of this agent to induce DNA damage in intact cells has been examined using alkaline filter elution.
We evaluated the ability of these agents to block the production of intracellular ROS and the subsequent inflammatory events exerted by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on murine macrophage RAW 264.7.
