Example sentences of "studies which have " in BNC.

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1 This suggested association between lipid and lipoprotein levels and enhanced platelet function in diabetes is supported by many studies which have described abnormal platelet function in hyperlipidaemic non-diabetic subjects ( Nordoy & Rodset , 1971 ; Carvalho et al , 1974 ; Shattil et al , 1977 ; Colman , 1978 ; Joist et al , 1979 ; Tremoli et al , 1979 ) which have measured in vitro platelet aggregation , platelet factor 4 , plasma antiheparin activity and a bleeding-time test .
2 The teaching methods of the course include not only lectures and tutorial classes but also : the extensive use of case studies which have been developed in partnership with local industry ; the use of expert computer systems in statistical analysis ; and project work emanating from the research activity of the Department of Mathematics , including statistical research on financial trends .
3 Mr Hadley , who teaches at the Grants School of Wine , cites studies which have found that compared with lifelong abstainers , moderate drinkers show a 26 per cent reduction in the incidence of heart trouble .
4 The survey , costing £85,000 and taking up to two years to complete , has been prompted by American studies which have led to calls for the banning of some chemicals .
5 It is perhaps particularly ironic that as yet we have no studies which have attempted to evaluate interventions from the point of view of the children themselves .
6 Recent studies which have looked at this issue report that people talk in terms of some blend of love and duty , affection and obligation ( Ungerson , 1987 ; Lewis and Meredith , 1988 ) .
7 There have been no recent studies which have looked at patterns of exchange between kin as their central focus , but relevant data can be gleaned from a number of studies .
8 This is consistent with several earlier studies which have attempted to explain socioeconomic differences in morbidity and mortality by differences among subjects in known or suspected risk factors .
9 soc : And I suppose you 'd like more of the same so you can go on pinpointing variation and replicate the studies which have been done to show the same thing in different places , or maybe to include a few more explanatory variables in your statistical model ?
10 Studies which have examined the ability of older people to undertake activities of daily living ( adl ) usually take one of two main approaches .
11 There are few longitudinal studies which have published data describing changes in the ability to undertake specific adl activities over time .
12 There have been a large number of studies which have sought to establish the validity and accuracy of replies to this sort of question .
13 It is no surprise to realise that those studies which have investigated the problem of ‘ bed blocking ’ have concentrated upon older hospital patients ; studies have not researched this topic for younger people as their right to an acute hospital bed appears to go unquestioned .
14 Some of these studies are extremely technical , but they have all produced other studies which have direct classroom relevance .
15 Studies which have observed children 's independent attempts at writing stress the active role children take in decoding and recreating the adult writing system .
16 This chapter begins by examining some major fieldwork problems associated with the study of syntactic variation , going on to review in 7.3 some studies which have tackled them by means of various elicitation techniques .
17 Section 7.4 reviews some quantitative studies which have attempted to take over directly from phonology the notion of the semantically neutral variable , and in subsequent sections analyses of variation which explicitly take into account semantic and discourse factors are discussed .
18 All of the studies which have looked at the effect of maturity on mispricings ( Bhatt and Cakici , 1990 ; Klemkosky and Lee , 1991 ; MacKinlay and Ramaswamy , 1988 ; Twite , 1991a ; Strickland and Xu , 1992 ; Yadav and Pope , 1990 ; 1992b ) have found that mispricings tend to decline in size and frequency as delivery approaches .
19 There do not appear to have been any empirical studies which have looked for an increase in the amount of information reflected in share prices as a result of the commencement of trading in index futures ( except in so far as volatility reflects information ; see Chapter 13 ) .
20 This ties in with earlier studies which have found that two-day-old infants who are considered attractive are held closer and spoken to more than unattractive babies .
21 It is interesting to compare the methodology of this experiment with that of recent studies which have used more natural discourse .
22 Instead course development has been informed by a continuing series of evaluation studies which have sought to assist in establishing priorities and in discriminating between alternative developmental paths .
23 As problem-centred evaluation is rather less common than methods so far discussed , an attempt will be made to locate discussion within a theoretical framework , and to illustrate it with examples of studies which have actually been carried out .
24 Biogeographers investigating landscape change on the most recent time scale have also resorted to documentary and field evidence because palynology may not be sufficiently reliable at this scale for the studies which have been completed including those of the outer Leeward Islands ( Harris , 1965 ) , the southwest of the United States and the vegetation of Barbados 1627–1800 ( Watts , 1966 ) .
25 The Bureau has undertaken several studies which have combined systematic econometric testing with economic analysis of particular equations or sectors of the models , and has been able to reconcile and resolve many of the differences in treatment between the models , in turn translating this resolution into its impact on full model properties .
26 The research will thus deviate from the common run of ‘ community ’ studies which have hitherto been the main focus of anthropological research on ethnic minorities in Britain .
27 Fortunately there have been a large number of more recent studies which have used more meaningful manipulations of arousal .
28 There are number of different ways in which more naturalistic studies have been conducted ranging from laboratory studies using slides and films to field studies which have recorded people 's memories for staged or naturally occurring arousing events .
29 The most realistic arousal conditions , although normally the least controlled memory tests come from studies which have looked at memories for actual crimes .
30 This may be also true of studies which have used a series of slides as the arousing stimuli rather than a single one .
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