large-scale study
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflarge-scaleandstudy
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large-scale
adjective
uk/ˌlɑːdʒˈskeɪl/us/ˌlɑːrdʒˈskeɪl/
involving many people or things, or happening over a ...
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study
noun
uk/ˈstʌd.i/us/ˈstʌd.i/
the activity of examining a subject in detail in order to discover ...
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The latter prediction was not systematically tested since this would have required alarge-scalestudyof its own.
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Within midwifery, alarge-scalestudyof those who had left the profession highlights the importance of supportive managers for retaining staff.
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This suggests a need for alarge-scalestudy, which could identify generational and age-related changes.
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The currentlarge-scalestudybased on this pilot will test this potential.
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As only ten sera from infected subjects of each disease group were used, the findings need to be verified with alarge-scalestudy.
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A recentlarge-scalestudyof children with autism investigated the nature of language impairments among verbal children with autism, with particular interest in defining the phenotypes of different subgroups.
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This research includes alarge-scalestudyof young offenders and a study of the possible factors associated with recidivism, or those who have the chronic habit of returning to prison.
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There he undertook yet anotherlarge-scalestudy, a comparative analysis of modernization in eleven third world societies.
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Rodents studies provide the ability to perform large-scale studies examining molecular and genetic changes in specific brain regions occurring as adolescent behavioral changes are unfolding.
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Here we find also an early combination of large-scale studies with regional and social comparisons.
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The reported associations between inherited thrombophilic and cytokine polymorphisms and adverse outcomes need to be confirmed in further large-scale studies.
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However, large-scale studies of children's spelling have rarely reported quantitative data on children's use of case.
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Large-scale studies are needed to measure the effect of interventions for larger groups of teachers.
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There are fewer large-scale studies that investigate tenseaspect development from the perspective of narrative structure.
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Questions raised by large-scale studies based on quantitative data are often best explored by further smaller scale, targeted case studies.
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