The phrase 'attenuate differences' is a valid and usable part of a sentence in English
This phrase can be used to mean to make differences between two objects, ideas, people, etc. less noticeable. For example, "The two sides worked hard to attenuate differences in order to come to an agreement."
While family-in-homeland was one of the strongest predictors of cross-border economic ties, inclusion of this variable in our models did not attenuate differences in remittance-sending between New Cubans and pre-1990s émigrés.
In Portugal, the National Health Service guarantees universal access to the population, which may contribute to attenuate differences in survival across the levels of socioeconomic status.
This design thus enhances the similarities between the clinical trial context and real world practice and so ought to attenuate differences in psychosocial context between trial and usual practice.
Considering that in most response-evaluable patients baseline primary tumour uptake exceeded that of metastatic nodes, an absolute difference response assessment would attenuate differences in response between primaries and nodes.
Specific vegetable and animal oils and fat were incorporated into each diet to attenuate differences in the amounts of SFAs and unsaturated fatty acids between treatments (see Supplemental Table 1 under "Supplemental data" in the online issue).
Future research could address the extent to which specific trial procedures (e.g. patient information sheets, consent interviews) contribute to the psychosocial context of trials and thus offer opportunities to further attenuate differences between trials and usual practice.
Using mean values for the individual components attenuated differences between groups.
Adjustment for childhood and early adulthood adversity fully attenuated differences in adult health disadvantages.
These potential misclassifications may have attenuated differences between classes, reducing entropy.
Even though censoring attenuates differences between the three tests, Gr is undoubtedly preferable under these conditions.
Specifically, the heterogeneity in the degree and distribution of atrophy may generate competing domain effects, thereby attenuating differences between diagnostic groups.
