The phrase "altering the patterns of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes or modifications to established behaviors, trends, or systems.
Example: "The new policy is aimed at altering the patterns of employee engagement within the organization."
Alternatives: "changing the trends of" or "modifying the behaviors of".
Climate change is beginning to reorder the global wine industry, altering the patterns of how and where grapes are produced and testing whether the world's iconic regions can find ways to adapt.
Climate change is altering the patterns of freshwater availability in complex ways that can lead to more frequent and severe droughts.Untrammelled industrialisation, particularly in poor countries, is contaminating rivers and aquifers.
For years scientists have studied whether climate change is altering the patterns of jet-stream winds and other global air-circulation patterns associated with ENSO.
It is possible then that selection upon mtDNA could accentuate genetic divergence between select geographic sites or shift patterns of polymorphism within sites in this system, but it does not appear likely that this selection is radically altering the patterns of genetic variation within and between populations.
Off-season rain is altering the pattern of mosquito development, leaving puddles containing the lethal larvae in areas where malaria had been nonexistent.
It is possible to mark a ball with a ballpoint pen, but some golfers actually believe that the weight of ballpoint ink, altering the pattern of flight, will affect the precision of their shots.
At about the same time, Mark Barrett, of University College London, published a preliminary study looking mainly at ways of altering the pattern of demand for electricity to match the variable supply from wind and waves and tidal power.
The aim is to reduce the vulnerability of current production systems without altering the pattern of current species and cultivation systems.
The intensity of the electric field is one of the important factors for altering the pattern of the electrospun fibers.
α-Interferon is capable of altering the pattern of growth of both normal and neoplastic cells, but the pathways essential to sensitivity and resistance to α-interferon are unknown.
Autonomic dysreflexia might predispose a patient to atrial fibrillation by altering the pattern of repolarization of the atria, making the heart susceptible to a reentrant type of arrhythmia.
