systematic investigation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsystematicandinvestigation
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systematic
adjective
uk/ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪk/us/ˌsɪs.təˈmæt̬.ɪk/
according to an agreed set of methods or ...
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investigation
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪnˌves.tɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us/ɪnˌves.təˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
the act or process of examining a crime, problem, statement, etc. carefully, especially to discover ...
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It is, however, possible that a moresystematicinvestigationwith these techniques could make an essential contribution to clarifying the nature of mental imagery.
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Butsystematicinvestigationof outbreaks within the framework of a comprehensive population surveillance system can be a powerful public health tool.
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Thus, whether and how such cultural constraints affect this and other levels of interactional organization needs furthersystematicinvestigation.
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Moreover, the moresystematicinvestigationprocedure used here only became practical some years later.
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Strong opinions were expressed and these were often convincing, but the ideas tended to be anecdotal and not based onsystematicinvestigation.
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There has as a result beensystematicinvestigationof the factors that could influence the ratings assigned, albeit with mixed conclusions.
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Asystematicinvestigationof this important case is required.
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With this study we hope to have opened the window towards a moresystematicinvestigationof the prosody of children's early multiword speech.
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Systematicinvestigationof the contingencies affecting their judgments and responses could test predictions drawn from an evolutionary perspective of costs and benefits to those observers.
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This surprising observation of very low periods of f motivated oursystematicinvestigationof periods of linear discretized torus maps.
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The parietal lobe receives little attention in current neuropathological models of schizophrenia and there has been littlesystematicinvestigationof this area.
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Four particular aspects of contextual change that are worthy of moresystematicinvestigationin research on psychopathology may be highlighted.
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Asystematicinvestigationof all the molecules that have been identified under different isomeric forms in the interstellar medium is presented.
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We concentrate attention on the exponential turnpike property and undertake asystematicinvestigationof it.
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As noted earlier, anecdotal evidence suggests that three-yearolds can produce them, yet we are unaware of anysystematicinvestigationof generics in children's own speech.
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Yet, paradoxically, the familiar landscapes that these suburbs provide have been the subject of practically nosystematicinvestigation.
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Since interstellar chemistry is known to rely on ion- molecule more than on neutral-neutral processes, asystematicinvestigationwas then carried out on the protonated forms.
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Though prosodic reductions in child speech have long been noted, it is only relatively recently that they have become the subject ofsystematicinvestigationand theoretically motivated analysis.
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Children's on-line comprehension is only now becoming the focus of empirical andsystematicinvestigation.
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