The phrase "are capable of affecting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the ability of someone or something to influence or have an impact on a situation or outcome.
Example: "The new policies are capable of affecting employee morale and productivity in the workplace."
Alternatives: "have the ability to influence" or "can impact."
The researchers also identified two groups of genes that are capable of affecting virulence and whose expression patterns are indicative of the previous host species they inhabited.
The objective of this paper is to use respirometry technique as a biodegradation process data source, and then apply to the obtained data the experimental design of mathematical models to characterize and determinate how the different types of oils are capable of affecting the parameters in biodegradation kinetics.
Single HMs, HM formulas, and even individual compounds of HMs are capable of affecting the gut microbiota.
Berger and Corbin [32] have suggested that cultural, socio-economic and situational circumstances are capable of affecting actual human behaviour.
It consists in perceptual traces, which are capable of affecting the central organ in the same way that perceptual stimulations do and so capable of producing similar experiences even in the absence of the corresponding external objects.
What you have to be able to do is identify school factors amenable to policy influence that are capable of affecting change in student achievement.
He added: "I am satisfied that in the wrong hands it was capable of affecting the operational effectiveness of nuclear submarines".
Thus, acid deposition is capable of affecting landscapes and the living things that reside within them even when precipitation is not occurring.
The salt water view holds shifts in demand responsible for fluctuations and thinks government policies (at least monetary policy) is capable of affecting demand.
Apple has published a temporary workaround for iOS users affected by the bug, which was found to affect iPhones earlier in the week, and subsequently revealed to be capable of affecting the Apple Watch, iPads and Macs.
Today, Sally Walsh, of the CPS, said she had examined the transcript of the two-and-a-half-week inquest and a report submitted by the Independent Police Complaints Commission, but nothing had been found "which would be capable of affecting my original decision".
