prior research
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpriorandresearch
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prior
adjective[before noun]
uk/praɪər/us/praɪr/
formal
existing or happening before something else, or before a ...
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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 ofpriorandresearchfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In so doing, the focus of this study departs quite markedly from muchpriorresearchon clarification requests.
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These conditions are described below along with analyses of how wellpriorresearchhas met these conditions.
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With this aim in mind, and given the lack ofpriorresearchand extant theory in this area, a qualitative approach was implicated.
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While such a finding is intuitively reasonable, it is somewhat surprising in the light ofpriorresearch.
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This finding is consistent withpriorresearchdocumenting positive associations between exposure to nontraumatic early adversity and afternoon cortisol levels.
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In contrast topriorresearch, this study reveals that with time, young female workers attached increasing importance to housework rather than income.
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These findings provide information about the generalizability ofpriorresearchand have important implications for intervention efforts.
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The finding here that cumulative risk is predictive of behavioral outcomes is not at all surprising, and is consistent withpriorresearch.
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This finding was unexpected, but it is consistent with somepriorresearch.
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Our results extendpriorresearchthat has revealed hypoactive cortisol production and blunted cortisol responses to laboratory and naturalistic psychosocial stressors.
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As noted earlier,priorresearchhas indicated that certain childhood temperament characteristics are predictive of adult alcohol problems.
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These results converge withpriorresearch, which found that skilled readers were more precise when recalling words they knew than were less skilled readers.
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The compilation of muchpriorresearchthus frees newcomers from reading up on a range of constructional research over the past decade.
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Based onpriorresearchthat found a close link between reading and spelling, the pattern of spelling results was expected.
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The field of design research does not have as good a record of building onpriorresearchas other well-established sciences do.
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The variables we include have been identified bypriorresearchto be key risk factors for adolescent substance use.
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The present study included measures of family, economic, and community risk factors comparable to those examined inpriorresearch.
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As expected frompriorresearch, distress to novelty correlated negatively with observed look away behavior, but only as a trend.
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Measures of sextyped behaviors were selected on the basis of extensivepriorresearchon hormone -behavior correlates in humans.
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The current study sought to extendpriorresearchto an area not previously investigated, multiple settings within families.
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