The phrase "reduce ability" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a decrease in someone or something's capacity, for example: "The accident had reduced his ability to walk".
Over time, we have seen that economies of scale can be false economies; increasing specialisation can be loss of wisdom; industry can reduce ability.
Here, unlike woodchopping, we cannot reduce ability to a single dimension (the number of ideas that an engineer has per hour about how to design aircraft wings is a silly measure of intelligence).
However, virally induced inhibition of the secretory pathway is not affected by nocodazole, and Golgi dispersion was found to occur during infection with mutant viruses with reduce ability to inhibit protein secretion.
Water hardness has no known adverse effects; however, some evidences indicate its role in heart diseases (Schroeder 1960) and hardness of 150 300 mg/l and above may cause kidney problems and kidney stone formation (Jain 1998), as it causes unpleasant taste and reduce ability of soap to produce lather.
This trend is consistent with observational findings in humans [4], [16], [32] and suggests that rapid telomere attrition could reduce ability to cope with infectious diseases during later life.
Moreover, stress can set up a cycle of distress and reduce ability to cope even in ordinary situations.
And the West Midlands federation said: "Will reduce abilities to fight on a national level through media avenues.
That could lead to reduced performance and reduced ability to save lives.
Mastitis milk gave altered SPM levels and reduced ability to accelerate resolution of acute inflammation.
A reduced ability to filter and set priorities, the scientists concluded, could contribute to original thinking.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are facing a reduced ability to detect and investigate disease outbreaks.
