seminal study

collocation in English

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seminal
adjective
uk
/ˈsem.ɪ.nəl/us
/ˈsem.ə.nəl/
formal
containing important new ideas and having a great influence on ...
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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 ofseminalandstudyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Richardson's (1956)seminalstudyof male retirement found that people generally experienced mixed feelings about leaving work.
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Thisseminalstudydemonstrated that engrafted bone marrow stem cells contribute to long-term hematopoiesis and also that contaminating tumor cells in autografts can cause relapse.
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In addition to thisseminalstudyon hydrogenosomes, they also demonstrated, for the first time, the presence of pyruvate:ferredoxin oxido-reductase and hydrogenase in eukaryotes.
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Petasis and coworkers proposed, in theirseminalstudy, that vinyl boronic acids can react with the adducts of secondary amines and paraformaldehyde to give tertiary allylamines.
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These seminal studies, most of which predate modern radiocarbon technology, fixed phase dates predominantly by linking ceramic caches or burial assemblages to calendrical inscriptions.
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Once begun, this small group invited others to join in sponsoring aseminalstudyof book industry information needs on which a future program could be based.
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Thisseminalstudywas one of the first public reports to reveal a cyber espionage network that targeted civil society and government targets around the world.
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Saffran (1996) represents a singularlyseminalstudyin this line of research.
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Gordons group published aseminalstudyin which functional genomics were used to document the genome-wide intestinal epithelial response to microbial colonization of the gastrointestinal tract.
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His seminal studies of the light-evoked physiology and ultrastructural morphology of single retinal neurons serve as the conceptual framework for our continuing investigations in this field.
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Seminal studies from the 1970s demonstrated that objects are recognized faster and more accurately when accompanied by contextual information.
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Gruen contributed seminal studies that led to a detailed elucidation of the 5f electronic structure of several of these elements, using low-temperature magnetic susceptibility and fluorescence spectroscopic techniques.
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