The phrase "affect the assignment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how certain factors or actions may influence or change the nature of an assignment.
Example: "The recent changes in the project timeline will significantly affect the assignment's completion date."
Alternatives: "influence the assignment" or "impact the assignment".
That determination would affect the assignment of responsibility for legal costs.
The results demonstrate how assignment simulations can provide new insights into factors that affect the assignment process, which can then help guide the design of experimental strategies.
However, incorporation of missing data did not affect the assignment of these sequences to haplotype definitions as other variable sites defined a particular haplotype.
8 9 Third, the use of a computer-based decision support system may affect the assignment of urgency.
Even with 500 markers, the largest observed difference (6%) was within the within-variation of our populations and did not affect the assignment accuracy.
For example, an intermediate genome that is not yet sequenced can provide a missing link that will redefine the partition of an age group and will thus directly affect the assignment of a gene to its appropriate age.
The tissue composition of each PCa sample is therefore likely to affect the assignments to the two subtype categories of good and bad prognosis.
An instrumental variable analysis requires identification of a factor that affects the assignment to treatment but has no direct effect on the outcome.
Presumably, application of smoke-water accelerates protein turnover and affects the assignment of proteins to be degraded by proteasomes and this eventually leads to the enhanced germination and seedling growth.
One day after revamping its evening program lineup, CNN continued a week of change on Wednesday with announcements affecting the assignments of a range of executives.
Intelligence and law enforcement officials say the report could have affected the assignments Mr. Snowden was given, first as an N.S.A. contractor with the computer company Dell in Japan and later with Booz Allen Hamilton in Hawaii, as well as the level of supervision he received.
