Collocations withexperiment
These are words often used in combination withexperiment.
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actual experiment
The actual experiment has been conducted over a very smooth but slippery vinyl floor.
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agricultural experiment
We return to the hypothetical agricultural experiment to illustrate this idea.
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behavioural experiment
Where possible, and in order to preserve collaboration, participants were encouraged to treat their non-adherence as a behavioural experiment.
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bold experiment
This is a bold experiment.
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chemistry experiment
This experiment is a classic chemistry demonstration and can be used in laboratory courses as a general chemistry experiment.
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controlled experiment
If the controlled experiment disproves the hypothesis, the scientist must be prepared to abandon it.
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double-blind experiment
A double-blind experiment can be done and was done.
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failed experiment
The author goes on to describe adolescence as a "failed experiment" that has had dire social consequences.
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field experiment
Assessing frequency-dependent seed size selection: a field experiment.
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independent experiment
An independent experiment was performed a year later to provide data to validate the modified model.
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initial experiment
No significant difference was seen at the 1-2 % drop in the initial experiment.
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interesting experiment
This is an interesting experiment.
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laboratory experiment
This problem can be solved in a laboratory experiment.
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large-scale experiment
This is a large-scale experiment.
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microarray experiment
Armed with the background in this chapter there is no real excuse for a poorly designed microarray experiment.
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novel experiment
Finally, a novel experiment involving two unmixed species in the nozzle fluid is proposed and analysed.
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numerical experiment
In the next example, we show a numerical experiment based on the stabilization-dependent dual problem (8.14).
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preliminary experiment
A preliminary experiment revealed two problems with this automatic generalization.
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present experiment
The present experiment has several goals.
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previous experiment
None of the participants took part in the previous experiment.
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randomized experiment
Thus, natural experiments are observational studies and are not controlled in the traditional sense of a randomized experiment.
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recent experiment
We then proceed to discuss a specific aspect of social brain function: perceiving and acting on eye gaze, and report a recent experiment with young autistic children.
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repeated experiment
Finding through repeated experiment a preferred identity, a fact that fits, is seen as the gateway to the adult world.
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scientific experiment
The word permitted a nonscientific psychological preoccupation to reappear as the subject of scientific experiment.
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similar experiment
As a control, a similar experiment was per formed in nitrogen gas.
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simple experiment
A simple experiment also illustrates the point.
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small-scale experiment
The sample size required to detect changes would have been at least an order of magnitude larger than that used in the small-scale experiment.
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social experiment
Enacting this law was a sick social experiment concocted by shortsighted criminologists and votehungry lawmakers.
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subsequent experiment
Conditions did not permit total prevention of contamination of untreated plants during nodule development and the subsequent experiment.
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uncontrolled experiment
If that is true, their observations are uncontrolled observations in the sense of an uncontrolled experiment.
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