Validation, therefore, is essential as a general quality assurance process and to generate the ability to fine-tune risk assessment techniques.
Addition of genetic biomarkers enables this approach to further fine-tune risk estimation.
The use of nomograms based on clinical parameters is helpful, but the search for additional biomarkers to "fine-tune" risk stratification continues.
Lastly, the support vector machine (SVM) [ 31] was implemented to fine-tune the risk score.
The bank sold those shares several years ago to help tune up its risk profile as part of stress tests imposed by federal regulators.
When you tune down, you risk letting the tension slip on the tuning gear as you play, making the string will go flat.
After a devastating crisis that had its roots in obscure financial products that almost no one understood (and even many senior regulators didn't know about beforehand), now is not a great time for hubris about the ability of regulators to fine-tune their risks.
But for a counter-puncher like Jelena Jankovic, the lack of a clear offensive weapon necessitates far more thinking before and during a match, and a constant need to tune her aggression, defense, risk and caution into a winning harmony.
Why are Americans choosing to turn off and tune out when the risk-filled, pocket-emptying truth is right in front of us?
Ever tuned to political risk, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has overseen its indefinite postponement as a national project.
It works, up to a point, since you're obliged to tune in every week or risk finding yourself at sea (though sometimes it's tempting to keep track like Guy Pearce in Memento, with sticky-notes and tattoos, maybe even a flow chart).
