The phrase "alter points" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes or modifications to specific points or aspects of a topic, argument, or plan.
Example: "In our meeting, we will need to alter points in the proposal to better align with the client's expectations."
Alternatives: "modify aspects" or "adjust details".
As Alter points out, if "hearken" is used in one verse, "listen" may be used in the next.
Nefesh, meaning "life breath" and, by extension, "life," was translated by Jerome in the Latin Vulgate as anima and then as "soul" in the K.J.V., even though, as Alter points out, soul "strongly suggests a body-soul split — with implications of an afterlife — that is alien to the Hebrew Bible and to Psalms in particular".
Retailers don't really have to alter point-of-sale systems or anything like that.
This research suggests that serration does not substantially alter point performance, and this characteristic may therefore vary independently of function.
Models were repeated with original and imputed data to confirm imputation did not significantly alter point estimates.
Adjustment for matching factors (birth year and region of residence) did not materially alter point estimates; hence, they were not included in the final models.
To further examine the risk of prostate cancer, we obtained a parsimonious model by removing variables that did not alter point estimates by > 5%, leaving variables for age and state of residence in the model.
Among the 52,331 patients for whom survey data were available on height and weight, diabetes duration, smoking history, and race/ethnicity, inclusion of BMI and other survey variables in the models did not appreciably alter point estimates for the association between ever use of pioglitazone and the risk of cancer (data not shown).
Even in a cohort study in Guinea-Bissau, where children were followed with weekly stool specimen examination to identify infections with enteropathogens from birth up to 2 years of age, generalized estimating equations or frailty correction to account for between-child differences did not substantially alter point estimates or precision [ 24– 26].
Two subjects (6.7%) of the control group and 15 (20.5%) of the diabetic patients showed abnormal FDTs based on the criteria of altered points.
Importantly, CD8+ TCM cell recovery is not significantly altered, pointing to several dichotomies in the survival and expansion of different CD8+ T cell subsets during peripheral T cell recovery.
