descriptive study
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdescriptiveandstudy
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descriptive
adjective
uk/dɪˈskrɪp.tɪv/us/dɪˈskrɪp.t̬ɪv/
describing something, especially in a detailed, ...
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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 ofdescriptiveandstudyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Adescriptivestudyof the self-perceived needs of carers f or dependents with a range of long-term problems.
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Overall, the book is stronger as adescriptivestudythan a theoretical one.
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Management of deliberate self poisoning in adults in four teaching hospitals :descriptivestudy.
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This is adescriptivestudyof 453 pregnancies of 338 mothers from an inner city general practice between 1987 and 1996.
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The most favored study design is thedescriptivestudy.
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One paper11 undertook a smalldescriptivestudythat looked at nurse-led review clinics in one hospital and compared them to doctor-led review.
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Planning activities for patients with dementia : adescriptivestudyof therapeutic activities on special-care units.
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As this was adescriptivestudyno control group was used and any comparisons were made with the results of previous work.
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This is a largelydescriptivestudyand as such does not address potential factors which may explain the seasonal patterns identified here.
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Still, a gooddescriptivestudyhas lasting value, and empirical claims invite fur ther analysis.
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The overall investigation that followed the initial investigation consisted of adescriptivestudyof cases, three cohort studies, and a case-control study.
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Mortality in eating disorders : adescriptivestudy.
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Rice again demonstrates a remarkable command of very thorny data and the chapter is an extremely interestingdescriptivestudyin itself.
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Multiple causal processes are undoubtedly important in generating these patterns of variation, and adescriptivestudysuch as our own cannot provide rigorous tests among alternative explanations.
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One finding from thisdescriptivestudywas that nursing practice in the programme is still very much rooted in a 'traditional' model of health service delivery.
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The view will be adescriptivestudywhich will take note of existing experience, highlight discrepancies and will possibly indicate where further work may be useful.
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This collection of theoretical and descriptive studies on language and gender represents both a challenge and a contribution to the discipline of linguistics.
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These are the types most often cited in descriptive studies and used as evidence for absolute rules in formal models.
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