The phrase "affect the usage of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how one factor influences or changes the way something is used.
Example: "The new regulations may affect the usage of certain chemicals in manufacturing processes."
Alternatives: "influence the application of" or "impact the utilization of".
Speaking to GigaOM Pipe CEO Simon Hossell said that he didn't intend the service to challenge file-transfer via Dropbox and email, but it's difficult to see how Pipe won't affect the usage of these services.
The OA Effect: How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books?
Normally, general sentiment lexicons have low coverage, and different standards of word segmentation can affect the usage of general sentiment lexicons.
The rejection of Pedroni's no within-dimension null hypothesis indicates that the adoption of one cashless payment method in either Austria, Belgium, France, Germany or Portugal, will affect the usage of the same cashless payment method in another EU country.
A time-consuming off-line analysis may not be a real problem for some BCI applications [33], but the speed of online classification does affect the usage of a BCI system.
Logistic regression analysis was conducted to examine whether the reported chronic conditions would affect the usage of dietary supplements.
People's Daily reports that China's 'Great Firewall' internet censorship system was "upgraded for cyberspace sovereignty", a move that affected the usage of at least three popular VPN services and attacked others with more vigor than usual.
In fact, ATP levels are reduced in Atgl−/− macrophages, suggesting that the lipolytic defect affects the usage of FAs as energy fuel.
Although cardiomyocyte number was not affected, the usage of this factor may be important to promote cardiogenesis for exogenous and/or endogenous therapies.
We found that the hmo1Δ mutation also partly suppressed the MMS sensitivity associated with null mutations in MMS2 and UBC13 (Fig 1B), indicating that Hmo1 affects the usage of the Rad5-Mms2-Ubc13 Rad5-Mms2-Ubc13 Rad5-Mms2-Ubc13
In previous work we hypothesized that a great event of genome deletion on which many of the intermediate enzymes for biosynthetic pathways for amino acids have vanished, ended up affecting the usage of EAAs in chordate proteomes [ 18, 19].
