preliminary study

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preliminary
adjective[before noun]
uk /prɪˈlɪm.ɪ.nər.i/ us /prɪˈlɪm.ə.ner.i/
coming before a more important action or event, especially introducing or preparing ...
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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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Examples of preliminary study

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This preliminarystudy is currently being extended to a larger population.
The preliminarystudy also indicated that vesicle-like formations, termed bladders, were produced in all test organisms.
From even a preliminarystudy of these considerations it is clear that this is fertile ground for further research.
As the authors note, this is a preliminarystudy with a small data set, and more research should be carried out to substantiate their findings.
Since the two participants in the preliminarystudy fulfilled all the above criteria, the same two players were approached again.
A questionnaire designed to assess roles and goals: a preliminarystudy.
Additionally, a preliminarystudy of the spatial structure of the data was carried out.
Other limitations of this preliminarystudy include our failure to demonstrate differential processing of threat-to-self in the deluded state.
Further work would probably find plant-insect associations involving these species which were missed in this preliminarystudy.
In the present study, the primers were first investigated in a preliminarystudy.
This is a preliminarystudy designed to identify the key pieces of information required to evaluate the value of managed entry.
In the present work we discuss the analysis of echocardiographic findings in a preliminarystudy of the hearts of fetuses in 273 pregnant women.
In our preliminarystudy, clear "patterns" of attachment behaviors emerged fairly quickly after placement for most children, but not for all.
An earlier, preliminarystudy had revealed the inadequacy and incompleteness of the existing vital registration system.
In that preliminarystudy, a lower degree of protection was observed, and presumably this was related to the use of a less optimal immunization condition.
In the preliminarystudy, we found that most 2-cell stage embryos form blastocysts within 3.5 days of in vitro culture.
Effect of fluoxetine on self-injurious behavior in the developmentally disabled: a preliminarystudy.
Physiology of speech production : a preliminarystudy of two suggested revisions of the features specifying vowels.
A preliminarystudy revealed that many modules were unused.
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