The phrase 'constrain the effect' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it in a variety of contexts, usually to convey the idea of limiting or reducing the impact or influence of something. For example, "The government's tight regulations were designed to constrain the effect of the economic downturn."
Thus, ash ingestion tests should be performed to constrain the effect of ash concentration and total load.
Four sets of experiments were conducted to constrain the effect of ( {a}_{{mathrm{H}}_2mathrm{O}} ) on the four main substitution mechanisms.
Consequently, it is important to constrain the effect of acidification on mineral dust present in ice core samples and to assess the contribution of dust leaching to the trace element budget of ice cores.
Another concern is that, even with state and year fixed effects, the estimates of (1) constrain the effect of minority status on earnings to be the same in all states, which is inconsistent with numerous findings (going back to Becker, 1957).
The first model represents blood lead level as a continuous variable: We constrain the effect of a one-unit increase in blood lead level to be identical over the full range of observed scores.
None the less, exclusion from provincial formularies might constrain the effects of successful advertising campaigns.
Although we currently do not know to which extent other parts of the auditory system are compensated, it is likely to 'pay off' to constrain the effects of temperature in the initial stages.
On the other hand, immigrants would in general be maladapted to the local environment and resultant gene flow with the reintroduced population as it grows might constrain the effects of ongoing selection (Fig. 2E; Gomulkiewicz and Holt 1995; Kinnison and Hairston 2007).
Data from the MinXSS mission deployed from the ISS constrains the effect to below 50 μrad for the 3U CubeSat with deployables [39].
It argues that all formal arrangements are socially embedded in a web of informal relations, which seriously constrains the effect of formal institutions.
Results were interpreted and discussed from a social cognitive perspective with an emphasis on how the environmental context may have fostered or constrained the effect of the IP.
