Sentence examples for refined indices from inspiring English sources

Researchers have used occupational role [ 19], levels of educational attainment [ 12], ad hoc combinations of occupation, home and car ownership [ 20], refined indices such as that of Carstairs [ 21] or of Townsend [ 1], and so-called 'geodemographic' markers [ 15].

Efforts are directed in search for more accurate procedures and more refined indices, including unobtrusive measures of deception.

More refined indices should further describe specific antenatal care patterns and provide a more accurate tool to evaluate current health policies and program interventions [ 22, 23].

That this aspect of the framework has been neglected may be due to the emphasis in HRQL research on measuring change; hence the focus has been on evaluative instruments, their responsiveness, and refining indices of responsiveness.

Refined caries indices recording numbers of incipient and manifest caries have accordingly been suggested but not yet evaluated [ 20].

In addition, "more refined future indices should incorporate parameters that reflect the qualitative aspects of PNC in addition to measuring number of visits" [ 8].

The proposed tuning process explores different values of the control weight matrix to balance the output error and control signal in both stages, and is refined through additional indices related with the error to reference tracking, disturbance rejection and the associated control use.

Twenty-three sines in the Mexican part of the basin were explored; a stratified sample of 13 sites was used to design the IBI, and the rest were used to test and refine the index.

We anticipate that, in several ways, further studies will improve and refine the index we have developed here.

Given that the value under scrutiny is equity, an attempt has been made to refine an index that could be particularly useful for the surveillance of women's and men's health as well as for future health policy initiatives.

Themes were refined through the indexing process and chunks of data were arranged according to the refined thematic labels and charted within a matrix against the unique identifier used for each participant.