The phrase "aimed to affect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an intention or goal to influence or change something.
Example: "The new policy was aimed to affect the overall productivity of the team."
Alternatives: "intended to influence" or "designed to impact".
Ultimately, the transitional jobs programs aimed to affect longer-term employment after the program period when program group members were no longer working in transitional jobs.
Solute diffusion treatments were: KCl (as a control solute), N and P (to investigate the effect of nutrient enrichment), or the herbicide isoproturon (as a "high impact" control, which aimed to affect biofilm growth in a way detectable by all assays).
Policies aimed at affecting the size of the labor force should be supplemented by policies aimed to affect productivity growth through investment in human capital.
However, since our study did not include an intervention aimed to affect leptin levels, this does not provide definite proof of causality.
Policies to address demographic challenges should therefore not just be aimed to affect the size and direction of demographic trends and migration flows, but should be combined with policies in other spheres as well.
At the other end of the scale are the initiatives that aim to affect people's attitudes on the ground.
To the extent that migration affects convergence in aging, policy makers may aim to affect the direction of migration flows between regions and countries.
They argued that schools aim to affect non-cognitive traits, such as obedience to superiors, by socializing students to function well and without complaint in the hierarchical structure of the modern corporation.
For these reasons, a number of farmers practising forest pasturing are active members of associations meant to strengthen and protect traditional breeds and which in various ways aim to affect policymaking within this field.
These statements neither express the speaker's belief, nor aim to affect the belief of the addressee in any way, since their falsehood is common knowledge (cf. Williams 2002, 74).
When considering wildlife in agricultural landscapes, policy's performance depends both on human (farmers) actions, which the policies aim to affect, and wildlife responses to land-use and management changes imposed by farmers.
