That the model missed some known interactions was to be expected, and the information thus gathered can be used to refine it.
This is the bottom line: We can embrace this accord, take a substantial step forward, continue to refine it and build upon its foundation.
In short, there are no easy answers other than analyze the data, develop a model, test it, seek public comment and feedback, refine it, and repeat.
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Earlier this year, Monsanto, a large biotechnology firm, announced a rough-and-ready sequence of the rice genome, and an international consortium is now trying to refine it.
The security directive to airlines and airports was set to expire Tuesday night, but the TSA extended the directive as it sought to further refine it, officials said.
Then they test it, refine it and test it again.
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As a result, it will be a work in progress for the first few races, as the FIA look to see whether it is working as they intended, and refine it if not.
Mr. SCHWARTZ: We do try to refine it, but I would say that we try to be consistent, as well, so that from one year to the next, you can rely on the categories that you're comparing.
But this was Bissell's vision of the "new new thing"--get sufficient volumes of rock oil by drilling for it refine it into a high quality illuminating oil, and then take market share away from existing illuminants and, at the same time, build wholly new markets.
In always trying to offer something more, Resident Evil 6 fails to refine what it has already given you.
As it continued to refine its methods, Twitter found that it had an increasingly strong correlation with Gallup polling data.
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Whereas most big western firms such as Mobil and Esso are expert at finding crude oil, extracting it from the ground, turning it into petrol and then selling it, Japanese firms tend merely to refine the stuff and sell it.
While it is possible to refine audio quality through software, Audience specializes in chips because it says hardware allows more computational power for its complex sound processing.
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The Times reports that Google asked the TV companies to delay introduction so it can refine the software.
The group also wants Google to explain how it will refine and update its privacy policies to reflect the novel capabilities of Google Glass.
Yukos produces more oil than it can refine, whereas Sibneft needs crude for its main refinery at Omsk, the biggest and best-equipped in Russia.
The bottler, which operates in North America, Turkey, Russia, Greece and Spain, said it would refine its selling and service organization, lower its general and administrative expenses, make its supply chain more efficient and modify its defined benefit pension plans in the U.S. and Canada.
It was a relatively obscure plant until the Middle Ages when people figured out how to refine, store, and trade it.
Sweet crude is low in sulfur which makes it cheaper to refine.
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The team plans to work further to refine the technology and develop it as a potential replacement for certain types of small batteries.
The time it takes to refine dore silver bars, which are a semi-pure alloy and usually created at the site of a mine, are somewhere in the middle of jewelry and electronics.
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Dropping the provision "might accelerate the process and build momentum, refine the debate and move it in a different direction than reinventing the wheel in a public option where there's no support among Republicans, " Snowe said.
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It reportedly wants to refine the software which has received a lukewarm reception.
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We have to accept either that future economic development is at the mercy of a hugely wasteful process, or that we can refine this new system to make it a significantly more efficient resource allocation process.
For the court to rule in Napster's favor it would have to refine the concept of "fair use, " which lets the owner of a recording make a copy for personal use or for use by friends or family.
It also helps to further refine expectations and standards of excellence.
But Dr Rablen and Dr Oswald thought it would be interesting to refine the observation still further, by studying individuals who were all, in a sense, at the top.
Petroleum caught on early as the main fuel source for internal combustion engines because it was plentiful and cheap to refine.
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