detectable
/dɪˈtɛktəbəɫ/
adjectiveable to be noticed or discovered
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1. The emotional rewards of pro-social spending are even detectable at the neural level.
2. Which is detectable by mosquitoes.
3. Traces of human intervention have been detectable throughout our epic Utah journey.
4. It's detectable inside in house dust.
5. It's detectable in waste water.
empirical
/ˌɛmˈpɪɹɪkəɫ/
adjectivebased upon observations or experiments instead of theories or ideas
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1. Empirical research hasn't really supported his hierarchy.
2. So the empirical rule just gives us that answer.
3. Runciman's conceptualization of Weber's theory of class was extremely influential empirical research.
4. One is an empirical claim.
5. The scientific revolution was empirical.
experimental
/ɪkˌspɛɹɪˈmɛntəɫ/
adjectiverelating to scientific experimentation, based on untested hypotheses or approaches and not yet confirmed or finalized
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1. So now six degrees of separation had experimental confirmation.
2. So the monkey is still experimental.
3. "Experimental philosophy" means science.
4. It was experimental.
5. These rockets use experimental motors like nitrous oxide.
preliminary
/pɹiˈɫɪməˌnɛɹi/, /pɹɪˈɫɪməˌnɛɹi/
adjectiveoccurring before a more important thing, particularly as an act of introduction
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1. In late February, 1952, the pair attended a preliminary hearing together.
2. Research on psychedelics for medical use is preliminary.
3. So we have very preliminary results.
4. Nonetheless, preliminary results from Uniroyal's own study already show high levels of cancer in laboratory animals.
5. However, preliminary results are promising.
qualitative
/ˈkwɑɫəˌteɪtɪv/
adjectiverelated to or involving quality of something, not numbers or amounts
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1. The other part of this is qualitative substantiality.
2. They also have qualitative demands.
3. It was qualitative.
4. Our experiences have qualitative properties.
5. That is, have a qualitative experience.
quantitative
/ˈkwɑntɪˌteɪtɪv/
adjectiverelated to or involving numbers or amounts, not quality
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1. Quantitative data are your friend here.
2. Here is the quantitative graph again.
3. And his quantitative approach took a number of forms.
4. The course, however, is more quantitative than this.
5. You need quantitative analysis.
scholarly
/ˈskɑɫɝɫi/
adjectiverelated to or involving academic study
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1. These alterations have not received scholarly attention.
2. Who's that scholarly kumquat?
3. He's published dozens of articles and essays in scholarly journals.
4. Moreover, these scholarly endeavors were on important issues from health care delivery to cutting-edge basic science.
5. This type of work would not see serious scholarly development until the 19th century.
theoretical
/ˌθiɝˈɛtɪkəɫ/
adjectiveinvolving or related to the ideas of a scientific subject rather than its practical use
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1. The entire argument about its existence is theoretical.
2. Concepts inform an episode's theoretical framework.
3. Some of these limitations are theoretical.
4. Jurisprudence is more theoretical.
5. This possibility wasn't just theoretical.
to correlate
/ˈkɔɹəˌɫeɪt/, /ˈkɔɹəɫət/
verbto be closely connected or have mutual effects
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1. The belief in homeopathy correlates with skepticism about vaccinations.
2. They correlate zero.
3. Excess belly fat correlates with higher blood pressure and cholesterol levels, two key risks to the health of your heart.
4. A country’s rise in emissions correlates strongly with their growth in GDP.
5. Lungs correlate to relationship.
to disprove
/dɪsˈpɹuv/
verbto show that something is false or incorrect
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1. So this disproves this statement.
2. And over the past few years, books have disproved this claim.
3. We disprove them.
4. In the first place science has disproved the theory of the creation of the universe out of nothing by the action of some supernatural power.
5. This latter point, however, was fully disproved.
to self-report
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to give detailed information about oneself, usually about one's physical or medical condition
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1. A set of 3 studies in 2011 looked at German students who self-reported goals.
2. For both animals and people, yes, self-report is a behavioral output.
3. People that self-report as lesbians also tend to have a smaller D2 to D4 ratio.
4. Case in point, Atkins self-reported spending around five hundred thirty million dollars on marketing and advertising its line of foods in 2020.
5. Self-reported results recorded a measureable improvement in mood, with the biggest margin of relief found in the most serious sufferers.
to verify
/ˈvɛɹəˌfaɪ/
verbto examine the truth or accuracy of something
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1. Verify the account, Jono. -
2. - Verified!
3. 80, verified.
4. AMCAS first has to verify your application as well.
5. Two gazelles, reconnaissance helicopters, will verify the operations of the drones.
apparatus
/ˌæpɝˈætəs/
nountools or machines that are designed for a specific purpose
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1. All that apparatus involves exposure to a million other people.
2. This apparatus called an oedometer.
3. but he shows distillation apparatus.
4. Adjust the apparatus until its almost perfectly still.
5. This girl needed a breathing apparatus.
carbon dating
/kˈɑːɹbən dˈeɪɾɪŋ/
nouna method used for measuring how old an organic material is by calculating the amount of carbon they contain
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clinical trial
/klˈɪnɪkəl tɹˈaɪəl/
nouna controlled scientific experiment in which the effectiveness and safety of a medical treatment is measured by testing it on people
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1. In a clinical trial, one in four patients developed severe allergic reactions to the drug.
2. This efficacy number comes from phase III clinical trials.
3. Clinical trials usually take a minimum of 15 months.
4. Over 400 failed clinical trials.
5. So many drugs fail in phase clinical trial.
control
/kənˈtɹoʊɫ/
nounsomeone or something that is used as a standard of comparison in a scientific experiment to evaluate the results
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1. He was unanimously approved by a Republican controlled senate.
2. The second technique is known as static rappel, where recruits utilize the tower's wooden face to perform a controlled descent.
3. But at the same time, you want to also have some controls over utilization.
4. The control wire connects to a coil of wire inside the relay.
5. It has an alarm clock and voice control.
guinea pig
/ɡˈɪni pˈɪɡ/
nounsomeone on whom scientific experiments are tested
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1. Guinea pigs are naturally really nervous animals.
2. Guinea pigs should get a high-quality guinea pig pellet.
3. - Killed the guinea pig.
4. - Get another guinea pig.
5. - I like guinea pigs!
pseudoscience
/ˌsudoʊˈsaɪəns/
nouna set of practices or beliefs that are claimed to be scientific when in reality they have no scientific basis
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1. So you think its pseudoscience.
2. This is just like some kind of medieval pseudoscience.
3. Utilizing pseudoscience.
4. It promotes such awful pseudoscience.
5. There's pseudoscience, crop circles, alien autopsy, haunted houses, or disasters.
subject
/ˈsəbdʒɪkt/, /səbˈdʒɛkt/
nounsomeone or something on which a study or experiment is performed
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1. Subject A dash 34, neonatal intelligence battery.
2. Who were the subjects that bequeathed these pulses to us?
3. - Subjects are.
4. The majority of the rivers of Alaska subject the salmon to one final test.
5. By the end of the study, subjects showed almost a 10% increase in strength.
treatise
/ˈtɹitəs/
nouna long and formal piece of writing about a specific subject
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1. He wrote a treatise called De Pictura.
2. Treatise is, at its heart, 193 pages of abstract shapes and drawings presented as a musical score.
3. one famous example is Cornelius Cardew's infamous work Treatise.
4. A treatise on Astronomy lying across the Pan-American Highway.
5. Now the Church of England establishment always countered these puritan treatises in attack of their position.
abstract
/ˈæbˌstɹækt/, /æbˈstɹækt/
nouna written summary of a book, speech, etc.
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1. Those sounds are abstract.
2. My second question is really more abstract.
3. Unlike at a Trial Court level, Appellate Courts-- the issues are abstracted, often.
4. Percentages are abstract.
5. - Mine is very abstract.
thesis
/ˈθisəs/
nouna statement that is used as a premise in argumentation
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1. So theses are warm McDonald's fries?
2. My thesis makes three main arguments.
3. First phase, submit your thesis.
4. So theses are the two telescopes.
5. Actually, here's the thesis.
literature
/ˈɫɪtɝətʃɝ/
nounwritings or books on a specific subject
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1. Literature is a corrective to the superficiality and compromises of friendship.
2. Literature is my religion.
3. Today's word is literature.
4. Who needs literature?
5. Ladies love literature.
citation
/saɪˈteɪʃən/
nouna line or sentence taken from a book or speech
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1. you get 10,000 citations.
2. Citation is different, records of Bureau of Naval personnel.
3. The citation is quoting your source.
4. Well here is the citation.
5. See Arizona vs California citation.
limitation
/ˌɫɪmɪˈteɪʃən/
noun(usually plural) anything that limits something
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1. It has limitations.
2. And every single study has limitations.
3. Limitations are learned.
4. So transparency has limitations.
5. Now, the study noted limitations.
methodology
/ˌmɛθəˈdɑɫədʒi/
nouna series of methods by which a certain subject is studied or a particular activity is done
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1. Others incorporated scientific methodology into their form.
2. Really, the ACD methodology is a breakout strategy.
3. No methodology is perfect.
4. The second thing is methodology.
5. So the methodology breaks down.
randomization
/ɹˌændəmaɪzˈeɪʃən/
nounan arrangement done in an intentionally random manner to yield unbiased results
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1. Randomization is a method where study participants are randomly assigned to a treatment or control group.
2. but I like the randomization of the outfits.
3. Should randomization always be required?
4. You can do historical quasi-randomization, all of that.
5. This is really a randomization.
parameter
/pɝˈæmətɝ/
nouna limit that controls or defines how something should be done
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1. First, it establishes the parameters.
2. Match takes three parameters, search for, search where, and matching method.
3. It takes two parameters.
4. A spoon has that parameter, a key looks like a guitar.
5. Set some parameters.
peer review
/pˈɪɹ ɹɪvjˈuː/
nounan assessment made of a scientific or academic research by people who are engaged in the same subject area
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dissemination
/dɪˌsɛməˈneɪʃən/
nounthe action of spreading information or news
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1. Now the majority of those, currently, are dissemination controls, or limits on the dissemination.
2. From this perspective, conceptions of information dissemination during the war changed shape.
3. Certainly the dissemination of information-- LAURENCE SILBERMAN: No, no, no-- just the capture.
4. Forget the dissemination for a moment.
5. The dissemination of anti-Clinton material in the guise of pro-Clinton images is, in itself, newsworthy.