The phrase "exerted an effect" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to explain that a certain action had a measurable outcome. For example: The mayor's new policy initiatives exerted an effect on crime rates in the city, resulting in a decrease of 10% over the past year.
On the contrary, when performing the multiplicative model, we underlined that the observed HR was different from the expected HR (RMR = 1.61 [1.49–1.74]) and thus that gender effectively exerted an effect on mortality in ESRD.
The ratio of seawater ions to formation water ions in the reaction mixture also exerted an effect.
It was found that the sterilization process as well as the variety in substrate particle size exerted an effect on the apparent rate constant (k), but no effect on the apparent Michaelis constant (KM) and apparent competitive inhibition constant (KI).
Interestingly labour market conditions exerted an effect in line with occupational choice theory only in less inhabited areas; in more densely populated regions a rural-urban linkage effect seems to prevail, creating an environment that fosters succession of young horticultural farmers.
It indicated that the loading order of the Catalyst II also exerted an effect on the productions of aromatics.
Only age exerted an effect: a significant negative impact on estimated risk occurrence probability (γ = −0.306, p < 0.001, R 2 = 0.093).
If it starts out as a kind of personal therapy, though, it quickly exerts an effect on group psychology.
"Even if one or more of the five genes identified do exert an effect, it's likely only a small part of the story," she said.
However, it is not quite clear how efficiently betaine penetrates the blood-brain barrier, and it is unclear if it exerts an effect on the central nervous system.
We tested the hypothesis that the nonselective cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitor aspirin (ASA) exerts an effect on circulating EPCs.
