cross-sectional study

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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 ofstudyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thiscross-sectionalstudyof 182 learners at six levels of proficiency produced over 8,200 predicates.
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An initialcross-sectionalstudyor assessment of the population can identify and remove from the cohort all active cases of the disease.
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The current descriptive,cross-sectionalstudyexamined three issues.
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As is true for anycross-sectionalstudy, the temporal relationship between the exposure (drinking water) and the outcome (diarrhoea) is uncertain.
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This hypothesis led us to conduct a secondcross-sectionalstudy, 1 year later.
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Across-sectionalstudywas conducted on 818 healthy children and oropharyngeal secretions were sampled.
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We conducted across-sectionalstudywithout longitudinal assessment of participants.
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A fourth limitation is thecross-sectionalstudydesign, which made it impossible to evaluate causal links between risks and adjustment.
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Also, our findings depend oncross-sectionalstudyat two time points 7 years apart.
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Finally, because this is across-sectionalstudy, no inferences can be made about the direction of the reported associations.
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Is there a cognitive decline in schizophrenia : across-sectionalstudy.
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Across-sectionalstudyinvestigates the developmental changes before the onset of adolescence.
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Thiscross-sectionalstudydrew on verbal protocol data to analyze the purported problem-solving nature of formulation processes.
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However, as this was across-sectionalstudyit is not possible to deduce the sequence of events.
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This would be important in long-term studies, whereas the static formulation of figure 1 is defensible in the present context of a short-termcross-sectionalstudy.
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Eating disorders in adolescent females with and without type 1 diabetes :cross-sectionalstudy.
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This is across-sectionalstudypresenting prevalence data obtained from a single point in time, namely 1996.
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