adjective
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a scientific/systematic approach
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a scientific approach to the study of language
a systematic search (= one done in an organized way )
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They set about a systematic search of the ship.
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■ ADVERB
little
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Although these questions are of vital importance, little systematic information on these issues is available.
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But there has been little systematic investigation of how different approaches affect the process of analysis and theoretical development.
more
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Other writers see it in a much more systematic unilineal sequence.
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The typical 5-to 6-year-old is usually a little more systematic .
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More headteachers were raising expectations and supporting their staff; more were monitoring teaching in a more systematic way.
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At the concrete operational level, efforts are more systematic but not fully so.
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A number of Amerindian languages encode reference to home-base in a more systematic way.
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There is a more systematic and scientifically acceptable method for establishing the nature of a political culture-the use of survey research.
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It can be used to provide a more systematic evaluation of linearity.
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Complex circumstances demand a more systematic approach.
most
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The most systematic theological reflection on these problems was offered in this period by Ernst Troeltsch.
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These constitute the most systematic national approaches to social service personnel training that we were able to find.
■ NOUN
account
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The third Marxist strategy, the development of a systematic account of within-class conflicts, is more revisionist.
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Instead they present a systematic account of just where Freudian theory fails.
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The fact that it aims to provide a systematic account of time use is what distinguishes it from the literary diary.
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In his systematic accounts of each species, Snow is careful to stress the main areas where knowledge is lacking.
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It is a serious systematic account written for the general reader, professional without being technical.
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I have not attempted to give an exhaustive or systematic account of the variety of government functions.
analysis
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Essentially semiology proposed the systematic analysis of cultural behaviour.
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This process should be wherever possible part of a systematic analysis of diagnostic system requirements.
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They can only achieve this through a systematic analysis of their responsibilities towards the curriculum as a whole.
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It will provide a systematic analysis of the issues involved in three ways.
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But no serious systematic analysis has ever been made of the recruits, or of their careers as policemen.
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The effectiveness of medical interventions is best evaluated by a systematic analysis of randomised controlled trials.
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This functionalist, teleological aim is inappropriate for the systematic analysis borrowed from structural linguistics.
approach
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The object of job evaluation is to provide a systematic approach to defining the relative worth of different jobs.
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A systematic approach is important for proper diagnosis and treatment.
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For example, the amount and quality of teaching vary greatly and lack any systematic approach .
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Therefore, one must adopt a systematic approach to acid-base diagnosis, as emphasized earlier in this chapter.
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Eventually I decided that what was needed was a little organisation - a systematic approach to make my busy life a little less fraught.
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Complex circumstances demand a more systematic approach .
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Winter embarked upon a more systematic approach to the manpower function.
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This type of program could provide a systematic approach to the game environment suggested in the other sections.
attempt
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An effective and systematic attempt at forecasting may reduce some of this uncertainty, and render the future more manageable.
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However there has still been no systematic attempt to relate female deviancy to women's situation.
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At least until the early 1970s, however, the government made no systematic attempt to shape the pattern of industry.
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In another trial a systematic attempt was made to investigate the effect of proximity between subjects.
basis
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In short, you will he required to apply the principles of thinking on a regular and systematic basis .
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Social services departments have a particular concern to research into needs on a more systematic basis .
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We stress that the list serves a heuristic purpose: it enables us to collect data on a fairly systematic basis .
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It needs to think ahead on a systematic basis .
change
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To do this you can read texts, making systematic changes of person, tense, and vocabulary items.
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Once the antecedents to their overdrinking are established, clients can begin to make systematic changes in these situational factors.
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Our study indicates that there is no systematic change in colonic function after cholecystectomy.
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Both antecedents and consequences should be open to systematic change .
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Taken over time, this series of systematic changes in the interconnected network of market decisions constitutes the market process.
investigation
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He dutifully ceased to send presents, and instead began a systematic investigation of her circumstances.
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But there has been little systematic investigation of how different approaches affect the process of analysis and theoretical development.
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Again, this is an hypothesis which would repay systematic investigation in respect of historical examples with contrasting forms of division of labour.
method
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However, to date no systematic method has been devised of assessing social class in this way.
observation
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This is best obtained by systematic observation of his or her teaching of normal lessons not involving a microcomputer.
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However, no systematic observations have been made of maternal behavior and anxiety or of later infant development in these cases.
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But this is almost certainly the result of systematic observation in Chichester Harbour.
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This belief led the priests to make careful and systematic observations of the heavenly bodies.
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It is therefore essential that you are able to note these by systematic observation .
research
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I get the impression that it's some sort of systematic research , maybe a response to a leak.
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This phenomenon has been confirmed by systematic research .
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In spite of the organisational and managerial implications of such changes, no systematic research has been undertaken.
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At best, therefore, Freud's views must be regarded as suggestions that need to be followed up by systematic research .
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However, there is a dearth of systematic research into the changes effected.
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There is clearly a need for a systematic research project aimed at estimating the value of sports tourism.
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Until recently however very little systematic research has been undertaken in this country.
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One consequence of this is that no systematic research programme has resulted from this approach.
review
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Health outcomes associated with antihypertensive therapies used as first line therapies: a systematic review and a meta-analysis.
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Summaries in list form appear at the ends of chapters to serve as systematic reviews of major conclusions.
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A guide to interpreting discordant systematic reviews .
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Like Allen, I would urge you to provide a systematic review of the empirical data supporting your proposal.
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A systematic review of controlled trials.
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Recommended changes had to be substantiated by explicit statements of rationale, supported by the systematic review of relevant empirical data.
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Several queries addressed the distinction between the meta-analysis and systematic review .
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Reporting, updating, and correcting systematic reviews of the effects of health care.
risk
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Therefore, total and systematic risk should not be too different in a well-diversified portfolio.
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Promote the benefits of systematic risk management and safe behaviour amongst your members.
search
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In 1987 David Jewitt instituted a systematic search of the outer Solar System for faint, slow-moving objects.
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This will involve a systematic search through library catalogues, and has several purposes.
study
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The next chapter reports a more systematic study of these effects. 5.4.3.4.
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The first systematic study of intergroup competition was made about twenty years ago by Sherif and colleagues in the United States.
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There has been no systematic study , however, to discover if this assumption is correct.
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The systematic study of this dependence has recently been made feasible by the development of the theory of sequential games.
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I didn't make a systematic study but I occasionally followed up clues if I came across references in books and catalogues.
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The first systematic studies of political parties belong to the end of the nineteenth century.
survey
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The shallow drilling programme is central to the systematic survey of the continental shelf.
training
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Again the same point emerges: high social standing and systematic training did not mix.
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But everywhere it was still a factor inhibiting the growth of systematic training and the professionalism it symbolised.
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Part of this has to do with the lack of systematic training to which we have already referred.
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There is, however, no systematic training for volunteers who become concerned over issues like the rainforest, the debt problem.
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The overall picture, however, is of a lack of systematic training in church music for ordinands.
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So far as systematic training of diplomats was concerned, therefore, the eighteenth century saw projects and suggestions, but little lasting achievement.
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Conversion I have already mentioned the need for systematic training of bilingual service providers.
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Direct budgeted allocation of resources will aid, encourage and allow planned systematic training .
use
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Scholars such as Daniel Wilson and John Lubbock made systematic use of such an ethnographic approach.
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The point of the interview is to make full and systematic use of this to gather data for research purposes.
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But the systematic use of the threat is comparatively recent.
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Stan, a computer systems analyst, approaches pie in a thoughtful, systematic way .
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But it is all of them working together in a systematic way that produces the dramatic results companies really want.
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There is also the problem that the researcher's observations can be subjective and are difficult to record in a systematic way .
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The first step is to establish that linkage between nutrition factors and health status in a systematic way .
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More headteachers were raising expectations and supporting their staff; more were monitoring teaching in a more systematic way .
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To see how this works we first need a systematic way of numbering Turing machines.
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A number of Amerindian languages encode reference to home-base in a more systematic way .
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The educational problems we began with can be interpreted in a more realistic and systematic way .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A systematic approach is needed for proper diagnosis.
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Analysis of the data should have been more systematic .
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Ex-prisoners talked of systematic cruelty within the jail.
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the systematic destruction of the country's education system
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Again the same point emerges: high social standing and systematic training did not mix.
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And so began the systematic stripping away of what little autonomy Mama had left.
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Educational technology is therefore offered as almost a synonym for systematic thinking in education.
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Jeffries' subject was the systematic effort by the white power structure to keep black people down.
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The pragmatist's solution to many of the problems of philosophy is simply that of not providing any systematic solution at all.
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We do not need to envisage systematic and conspiratorial marketing plans here.
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Widespread and systematic crime occurs in normal, everyday situations.