significant improvement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsignificantandimprovement
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significant
adjective
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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improvement
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/us/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/
an occasion when something gets better or when you make ...
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(Definition ofsignificantandimprovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There wassignificantimprovementin overall neurological function, primarily in motorrelated and cortical signs, which were associated with improvement in psychopathology.
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When the target was an untrained auxiliary, there was nosignificantimprovementin repetition.
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However, nosignificantimprovementwas found between the first and last tests in terms of their morpheme accuracy.
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Parenting, peers, and siblings' behavior symptoms equality constraint would result in asignificantimprovementin fit.
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He noted asignificantimprovementin shoulder movement.
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I would argue, however, that conceptual gaps are likely to continue to get in the way ofsignificantimprovement.
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There was a statisticallysignificantimprovementin symptoms and in measured force of contraction after a four-week period.
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Again this provides asignificantimprovement.
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It serves as an example where the above described steps of binarization and partial deduction do not give anysignificantimprovement.
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Participants in both intervention and control groups showedsignificantimprovementin mood symptoms over time.
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The results showedsignificantimprovementafter training across age groups.
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Results showed that students taught to use strategies showedsignificantimprovementon oral proficiency tests.
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They find an economicallysignificantimprovementin performance when the forecasting model is allowed to change in response to historically available information. 14.
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Similarly, nine of the eleven studies on patient outcomes foundsignificantimprovement.
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Our results show that the persistent income poverty measure does constitute asignificantimprovementover its cross-sectional counterparts.
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By diversifying across world markets, there issignificantimprovementin the efficient frontier of risk versus expected return.
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