In the late 17th century the German jurist Samuel von Pufendorf refined a theory of the origins of property rights that had been in existence since ancient times.
Wise is refining a theory, for example, that the order reflects how far the animals lived from the shore, so those living farthest from the water show up last in the record.
But during the last three decades, some psychologists have refined a theory of "reparative therapy," which ties homosexual desires to emotional wounds in early childhood and, in some cases, to early sexual abuse.
As a foundation to her work, she is refining an innovative theory of are, based on a restorative and equity-driven framework, which can be applied in urban schools.
We do not claim to have conducted a realist evaluation in the classically structured way presented in other studies, which focus on refining a mid-range theory (31, 32).
This book develops, evaluates and refines a cloud service relationship theory that explains how cloud users' uncertainties arise in these relationships and how they can be mitigated.
Bayesian inference provides both a proof theory for combining prior knowledge with observations, and a learning theory for refining a representation as evidence accrues.
Despite a matching effort, led by Bahcall, to refine the theory, the data remained stubbornly below the prediction; the solar neutrino problem wouldn't go away.
He has worked to refine the theory; it's the sort of thing he does to relax after a long day editing sound or film.
