The phrase "affects the first" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the impact or influence of something on an initial element or person in a sequence.
Example: "The new policy affects the first group of employees who were hired under the old system."
Alternatives: "impacts the initial" or "influences the primary".
But the increased risk also affects the first expansion option for awning fabric.
The small type II membrane protein called Us9 affects the first process: it promotes the movement of virion envelope (but not tegument or capsid) components into axons.
So there is a chain of events and climate change mainly affects the first link: the basic buoyancy of the air is increased.
The results of our investigation indicated that NPA mainly affects the first linear flow when CfD>1 and the bilinear flow when CfD≤1.
"As the first line of a poem affects the last and the last line affects the first," Mr. Streever writes, "the environment affects animals and animals affect the environment".
This paper uses data from the 2008 Survey of Doctorate Recipients, with matched data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates, to explore how conducting interdisciplinary research for one's dissertation affects the first few years of graduates' careers.
Furthermore, the solvent effect largely affects the first-order hyperpolarizability of the complex, it implies that the second-order polarizabilities increased with the increase of the solvent in polarity.
That charge, in turn, affects the third layer, which is made of liquid crystals.
It was found that the scan length chiefly affects the second peak temperature rather than the highest temperature.
The only question might be how this affects the third-party, commercially licensed partners that Uber has been working with over the last few years.
The arthritis in the toes is mostly nonsymmetrical and mainly affects the fourth and fifth digits.
