The phrase "affects the path" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how one factor or element influences the direction or course of something, such as a project, journey, or decision-making process.
Example: "The new policy affects the path of our company's growth strategy significantly."
Alternatives: "influences the course" or "shapes the direction".
The way increasing consumption of luxury goods affects the path of investments will be analysed, under the assumption, deriving from Veblen, that capitalists are interested in competitive, conspicuous consumption.
Length of the path: The number of hops also affects the path lifetime.
The content of each repository must be known (Rn,i) because this affects the path chosen to transfer the images.
The migration of the NEC bifurcation latitude has seasonal and interannual variation and affects the path and transport of the Kuroshio through the Luzon Strait.
Positioning factor: The point at which two nodes start communicating with each other influences the link duration and as a result, affects the path duration [18].
Neil Frank, former director of the United States National Hurricane Center, used the analogies such as "a leaf carried along in a stream" or a "brick moving through a river of air" to describe the way atmospheric flow affects the path of a hurricane across the ocean.
Consequently, this situation affects the paths to access (public or private), as well as their experiences in the healthcare process.
By tracking the evolution of a unimodal and bimodal dispersions in phase space, it is demonstrated that coalescence affects the paths of particle dispersion towards the steady state particle coarsening regime as well as the time scales to reach it.
Impact by the washing-machine-size probe will not affect the path of the comet, a mountain of an object some 9 miles long and 3.7 miles across, nor break it apart, scientists said.
Other new research suggests that the loss of ice could be could be affecting the path and speed of the jet streams, possibly explaining why extreme weather in the northern hemisphere is lasting longer.
Despite – or perhaps because of – being raised "in a very conservative household, with a small and a capital C", he underwent a political awakening in his teens that was to affect the path of his life.
