The phrase "affects the propensity of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how one factor influences the likelihood or tendency of another factor.
Example: "The new policy affects the propensity of employees to take sick leave."
Alternatives: "influences the likelihood of" or "modifies the tendency of".
At the same time, we know that the safety net affects the propensity of people to work.
As a result, I advance a cross-level model of how a system of reciprocally influencing network-level (i.e., structural) and dyad-level (i.e., relational) social mechanisms affects the propensity of allied organizations to engage in knowledge-intensive activities that yield considerable knowledge-based benefits and strategic outcomes at the alliance and firm levels.
However, such a genetic correlation is unlikely the main factor explaining variation in shrimp foraging behavior, because the relationship between female size and offspring morph determination appears to be condition dependent: altering a female's size (through differential feeding in the lab) affects the propensity of her offspring to develop as carnivores [10].
In the present study, we used C57Bl6 and ldlr−/− mice that have ASMase deficiency (asm−/−) to characterize the effects an atherogenic diet has on sphingolipid content of lipoproteins and S-SMase activity and to investigate how S-SMase affects the propensity of LDL particles for aggregation.
Based on this we estimate a probit regression of factors that affect the propensity of exposure to improved varieties of pigeonpea.
Further analysis will be required to determine the extent and significance of these changes, and how they affect the propensity of online users to experience the effects of a Friendship and Happiness Paradox over time.
Specifically, I exploit industry-level economic shocks in the United States which affect the propensity of Chinese talent to return to China as a venture capitalist, in a manner that is arguably similar to a change in China's remigration policy.
We develop an econometric model of network concentration, accounting for demand, cost and competition variables that may affect the propensity of carriers to concentrate flights and passenger connections on a few airports of a network.
Therefore, we analyzed whether the absence of OPN expression and/or HFD would affect the propensity of BMSCs to differentiate through osteogenic and adipogenic pathways.
We also examined whether such small differences were likely to have affected the propensity of H-type females to mate by comparing the average proportion of the E isomer in the blend emitted by H-type females that had mated successfully with that of same-line H-type females that had failed to do so with Student's t-tests, as described below.
