And even before more perfect samples are achieved, lower-tech refinements to the questions asked could also improve results.
Two further refinements were necessary: to work out the third dimension distance from Earth and to subtract the effect of visible matter in order to be left with the distribution of dark matter pure and simple.The trick they used to perform the first refinement was a piece of basic optics.
The art has been in finding the right amount of twist to stop the wing tips stalling, but not enough to stunt the glider's ability to soar and stay aloft.Such refinements over the past four decades have come largely from trial and error plus the cumulative insights gleaned from hanging beneath a pair of flimsy wings.
In India agencies such as BharatMatrimony provide remarkably detailed lists of criteria, including religion, caste, income and education, that allow people to make minute refinements to the description of their ideal soulmate.
Mr Moore was presumably referring to further refinements in Tri-Gate architecture.
The 2003 GP contract and subsequent refinements has given the Department of Health a growing reign on how health care is delivered in the community.
Recent refinements in knockout techniques have speeded up the process and made it more precise.
The world has gone from great leaps to refinements, and the refinements are petering out.
Dr Hommelhoff reckons that with refinements such as better lasers and subtler etching of the teeth, their system should be able to deliver boosts of a billion electron-volts per metre.His back-of-the-envelope calculation thus suggests that a trillion-electron-volt machine (a seventh of the oomph of the LHC) might one day be squeezed into a tube less than 1km long, and might cost around $1 billion.
Technological advances such as the advent of radiocarbon dating led to further refinements, and the "new archaeology" movement of the 1960s promoted quantitative methods such as statistical analysis.
He argues that this has the virtue of "allowing the parties to better obtain the level of risk they prefer" and "remaining open to further refinements over time".Political, or government-mandated, risk management, by contrast, "is futile because the risk management strategies of today will prove inadequate to address the risks of tomorrow," Smith writes.
