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At a Senate hearing, Republican senators worried that a ban on human-cloning research might prevent lifesaving medical breakthroughs, and researchers and ethicists said there is no need to legislate hastily, since it will take a while to refine the sheep-cloning technique to work in humans.
This iterative process ends when a plausible explanation has been developed and, at the end of a "revise" phase, there are no outlier or unexplained data, no further interpretations possible, or it is clear that despite the most diligent search for information, more is not available to further refine description and explanation.
K has no trouble deciding which it is now that he needs a few second-order considerations to refine his argument.
Of course, the biggest problem with books of this sort is that the most they can expect to accomplish is to help people refine their use of the language: those whom we think of as needing the greatest amount of help are usually unaware of the fact; for them, looking up a doubtful usage in a book like Hook's (or anyone else's, or even a dictionary) would be unthinkable.
In order to refine our localization of the subcellular target of statin action, we evaluated the steady-state levels of cell-surface APP (csAPP) in the absence or presence of statins.