All in all, the deletions show slight variations to our first attempt at refining the LIST questionnaire (cf. Griese et al. 2014), when we achieved a version with 32 items and slightly worse alphas, using data from earlier project years.
Figures that are jiggered together from odd shapes and objects that are reduced to simple geometries bespeak choice; they aren't failed attempts at representation but refined emblems.
Despite many attempts to refine this model, the results were dismal.
Fit to the Rasch model deteriorated further through attempts to refine the original domain scales by deleting misfitting items.
Starting from a random haplotype pair, HapCUT iteratively attempts to refine the haplotype pair to reduce the MEC score.
Though Iran attempted to refine heavy grade Forouzan oil for the first time at its Bandar Abbas refinery in August 2008, it is unclear whether, and to what extent, the effort to refine the heavy oil was successful.
Objective: In an attempt to refine the role of ultrasonography in screening and identifying fetuses at risk for chromosomal abnormalities, a retrospective review of patients undergoing genetic amniocentesis was undertaken.
