prior study
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpriorandstudy
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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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study
noun
uk/ˈstʌd.i/us/ˈstʌd.i/
the activity of examining a subject in detail in order to discover ...
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(Definition ofpriorandstudyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In apriorstudy, we observed that schizophrenia patients display atypical perceptual biases in response to emotional (happy\eutral) facial chimeras.
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Thispriorstudy, however, did not exhaustively report the possible effects of laminin deletion on the inner retina.
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Thus, the items rated by experts as problematic in thepriorstudywere also excluded in this study.
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The authors know of nopriorstudythat looked at the traumatic impact of multiple myeloma.
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This study has a combination of a wider range of inbreeding coefficients than anypriorstudyand longer duration, as well as extensive replication.
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In thispriorstudy, cortisol levels were assessed at wake-up and bedtime over 2 consecutive days at home.
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The current study built upon thepriorstudyby examining a wider range of theory of mind skills in maltreated children in foster care.
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However, nopriorstudylooked at orthopedic residents applying for fellowship programs.
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During apriorstudyof forest secondary succession, 44 forest plots on 13 islands had been surveyed in 1995 and their locations marked.
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As in ourpriorstudy, we compared the predictors of resilient functioning in maltreated and nonmaltreated children.
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Two figures on bottom demonstrate regions activated in six independent healthy subjects from apriorstudy.
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The historical reasons were that the investigators wished to compare their study results topriorstudypopulations that did not include women.
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As far as we know, nopriorstudyhas compared attitudes and beliefs on depression and antidepressants in patients with depressive and with bipolar disorder.
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Nopriorstudyhad explored the origins of attention and activity problems in this way, though from a developmental perspective it is obvious to do so.
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Unfortunately, thepriorstudyof shielding of ongoing goal striving has been neglected in that research.
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Apriorstudynoted no difference in the frequency of traumatic injury.
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Nopriorstudyhad existed on this concept.
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Because these prior studies employed similar methods of data collection, it was deemed reasonable to compile the data together for the present study.
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Many of the prior studies have used unexpected accruals to proxy for earnings management.
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The dotted line marks the approximate mean developmental level of adolescents from prior studies of students in schools (as opposed to psychiatric hospitals).
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