The phrase "applied to decrease" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing methods or strategies that are implemented to reduce something, such as costs, risks, or errors.
Example: "The new policy was applied to decrease the overall expenses of the department."
Alternatives: "implemented to reduce" or "used to lower".
Boring-hole design was applied to decrease the negative lift generated in wing's upstroke motion.
Instead of complex spatial geometries and sample strategies, simple periodic geometric features are applied to decrease the required mixing distances.
Inductively coupled plasma reactive-ion etching (ICP-RIE) is first applied to decrease the thickness of a Si substrate for light-addressable potentiometric sensor (LAPS) characterization.
A data clustering technique and the relaxation of integer scheduling constraints is evaluated and applied to decrease the model solution time.
Besides the data flows' migration and integration, the Traffic Engineering TEE) technique is also applied to decrease the transmission delay and increase the network throughput.
Various superpixel generation methods including watershed transformation and mean shift clustering are applied to decrease spatial dimensionality and provide an initial segmentation map.
Reforms with an increasing direction are defined as follows (a symmetric definition applies to "decreasing" reforms): ▪ Labour taxation: measures increasing the tax burden on labour.
The same principle applies to decreasing luminosity which causes a spread of black daisies.
This seems to also apply to decreases in IGF-I provoked by dietary restriction.
This work can be applied to partially decrease re-association latency but it can not reduce re-association frequency.
Additionally, silver coating is applied to prostheses to decrease infection risk: silver ions have antibacterial activity that can help reduce periprosthetic infections [29].
