The phrase "act as directed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when instructing someone to follow specific orders or guidelines provided to them.
Example: "Please ensure that you act as directed in the training manual to achieve the desired results."
Alternatives: "follow the instructions" or "adhere to the guidelines".
Forty-nine physicians acted as directing physicians, taking on the tasks of triage, initial treatment and decontamination.
Redox-directed therapeutics have been developed to act as direct inhibitors of cancer and to sensitize tumors to first-line agents; however, they are associated with significant toxicity.
In a democratic society of political equals, the duly elected officials and appointed policy makers who constitute the governing structure act as direct or indirect agents serving a citizenry of their peers.
The notion that (poly)phenols act as direct free radical scavengers is being challenged by mere chemical and biochemical considerations such as bioavailability and intracellular concentrations.
Natural antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), also known as host defense peptides (HDPs), not only act as direct antimicrobial agents, but also represent important regulators of the innate immune system.
Contour maps obtained from the 3D-QSAR model are meaningful in designing more active molecules to act as direct inhibitors of thrombin.
Drugs with serotonergic properties have the ability to increase the level of serotonin or to act as direct agonists of postsynaptic serotonin receptors in the central nervous system (CNS) and therefore the ability to create serotonergic toxicity.
As in every karst landscape, caves are important because they contain a wide variety of resources (e.g., biota, speleothems) and can act as direct connections between surface and subsurface hydrological processes, potentially exacerbating the pollution of groundwater.
On the other hand, it was found that (111 -oriented TiN layers enhance diffusions of Ti and O atoms through the grain boundaries, which act as direct path for diffusion at temperatures higher than 350 °C.
