previous research
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previous
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈpriː.vi.əs/us/ˈpriː.vi.əs/
happening or existing before something or ...
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research
noun[U]
uk/rɪˈsɜːtʃ/us/ˈriː.sɝːtʃ/
a detailed study of a subject, especially in order to discover (new) information or reach a ...
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(Definition ofpreviousandresearchfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This research differs frompreviousresearchin a number of ways.
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Previousresearchexplains the evolution of parties' ideological positions in terms of decision rules that stress the uncertainty of the political environment.
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This examination of ethnic and socio-economic variation in social exchange among older adults addresses several shortcomings ofpreviousresearch.
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This is not only inconsistent withpreviousresearch, but in two out of our three cases displaying the opposite relationship.
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The questionnaire was modified frompreviousresearchtransfer and uptake studies (12).
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Theoretical support for the choice of variables was drawn from expectations of maternal and child behavior based onpreviousresearch.
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Previousresearchhas shown that most of these migrants make the decision to settle in their new country gradually.
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The current findings extendpreviousresearchdocumenting the facilitating role of the markers in listening comprehension.
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Of these, eight completed a research project together with a further six who hadpreviousresearchtraining.
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Previousresearchon static analysis of information flow in programs has connections with data access.
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Previousresearchhas looked at matching a model directly to the image data and a variety of strategies have been proposed to solve it.
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The present study extends the work ofpreviousresearchin two ways.
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We build onpreviousresearchin several ways.
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Previousresearchhas shown that education is a good global measure of pre-morbid functioning in schizophrenia.
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This surprising result is compared withpreviousresearchon circadian rhythms in mood.
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The paper will begin by briefly reviewingpreviousresearchrelevant to this aim.
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We now review thepreviousresearchon queuing systems with flexible, failureprone servers and contrast this work with our results.
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Nopreviousresearchhas covered as many countries (42 in all).
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Previousresearchon minor parties has identified a number of motivations for voting for a third-party candidate.
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