The phrase "alterations designed to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes or modifications that have a specific purpose or intention behind them.
Example: "The alterations designed to improve the building's energy efficiency were completed last month."
Alternatives: "modifications intended to" or "changes aimed at".
After graduation, Crake started his Paradice Project, an embryo-alteration programme designed to create perfect human beings.
Later Lakatos (Lakatos & Zahar 1976) extends the definition to cover phenomena that may have been observed before the time of prediction but which were not among the problems which the alteration was designed to solve.
Such individual differences in stress vulnerability are based on alterations in neural circuits/mechanisms designed to properly tune and terminate stress responses.
At this point, if you haven't read the books, you're probably assuming I'm about to reveal that the Bagthorpes' perma-feuds and tooth-and-nail altercations are a pose designed to disguise a deep, underlying affection, and that the books' message is something to do with the many different ways of expressing love.
Such a technique provides a controlled query alteration process that is designed to emphasize some terms and to deemphasize others, as required in particular search environments.
While the cytogenetic microarray assays are quite sensitive for the detection of copy number alterations and LOH, they are not designed to identify all types of genomic alterations.
The present study was designed to determine alterations in these parameters using an established mouse model.
A single-center prospective cohort study was designed to identify alterations of renal function during childhood in children born prematurely.
The present study was designed to map alterations in brain white-matter in photosensitive epilepsy (PSE) by applying tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) analysis.
