The phrase "and serves to shape" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something has a role in influencing or forming another thing, often in a descriptive or analytical context.
Example: "The curriculum is designed to provide a comprehensive education and serves to shape the students' critical thinking skills."
Alternatives: "and helps to mold" or "and contributes to forming".
Its gene product, mGAT1, distributes mainly to presynaptic terminals of GABAergic neurons and serves to shape the amplitude and time course of IPSCs as well as regulate extrasynaptic levels of GABA (Isaacson et al., 1993; Jensen et al., 2003; Overstreet and Westbrook, 2003; Conti et al., 2004; Chiu et al., 2005; Bragina et al., 2008; Kirmse et al., 2008; Cepeda et al., 2013).
Informal social networks from a web of associations provide support and serve to shape norms of behavior, and they have the capacity to produce social capital [ 7].
Furthermore, in her ethnographic study of a British detention center, Hall [ 8, 71] illustrated how the emergence of shared capacities such as empathy and embodied vulnerability made it possible to challenge and transcend the boundaries between officers and detainees, citizens and others, inside and outside, and served to shape life inside M-RD centers.
Strong inhibition is also present during a SPW; this presumably serves to shape the waves and to limit the number of cells they incorporate [15].
An individual enters any given situation with a pre-existing schema, which serves to shape the behavioural, psychological and physiological experience of that situation.
But faith, in a political context, is irrelevant -- unless it serves to shape positions on public policy and impels believers to strive for ethical solutions to the country's problems.
Axial elongation is a key morphogenetic process that serves to shape developing organisms.
Understanding the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that impact on GPs may serve to shape educational resources to be more appropriate, relevant and supportive.
Foucault (1988, 18) was further interested in the 'technologies' that serve to shape human knowledge and action, including the technologies of power (that serve to conduct and dominate) and technologies of the self (which individuals use to stylize themselves) to understand the effects of power and resistance.
Ecological changes in the natural habitat of P. troglodytes have served to shape evolutionary immune responses to pathogens and adaptive responses in reproduction-related phenotypes (Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium 2005).
Beneath our commitment to concepts such as "participation" must lie a genuine empowerment of those people we serve to shape their own services, shape the organisation, and speak through us.
