The phrase "altering the sensitivity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where adjustments are made to the level of responsiveness or awareness of a system, device, or individual.
Example: "The technician is altering the sensitivity of the microphone to improve sound quality."
Alternatives: "modifying the sensitivity" or "adjusting the sensitivity."
Our results highlight that resin extraction is, apart from inflicting mechanical damage, not altering the sensitivity of Scots pine growth to climatic conditions.
During T cell signaling, VPAC1 mRNA expression levels are significantly downregulated through a Src kinase dependent mechanism, thus altering the sensitivity for these neuropeptides during an immune reaction.
The user can select the "Reduced Masking" option, in order to decrease the area masked by altering the sensitivity of the optical and thermal channels to cloud and cloud shadow spectral signatures.
Hormones can act as immunomodulators, altering the sensitivity of the immune system.
Recent results with the GABA, NMDA and AMPA receptors suggest that ethanol can bind to a pocket in certain subunits, altering the sensitivity of the receptor to its ligand [4].
Figure 2f illustrates why this is so: It shows that changes in the position of a 2D psychometric function due to factors, such as gain changes, that operate at or beyond the output of the intensity-growth function (Figs. 2b,3c) may be indistinguishable in practice from changes in position produced by altering the sensitivity of the reward substrate (Figs. 2c,3b).
The chemicals alter the sensitivity of hair cells in the inner ear so that they are more receptive to higher frequencies.
TDCS is generally too weak to make brain cells fire – instead it alters the sensitivity of the cells, making them more or less active in response to something that stimulates them later.
The radius of the site points can also be adjusted to alter the sensitivity of the model.
It employs using genetic modification to alter the sensitivity of malignant or normal tissue to the effect of radiation [14 17].
Therefore, it remains possible that diagnostic inaccuracies would alter the sensitivity and specificity of the ultrasound findings for any of the specific diagnoses.
