Example sentences of "this study [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 This study justified the use of villus height as an indicator of the nutritional state in rats .
2 This study assessed the effect of antioxidant vitamin supplementation on colonic crypt cell proliferation in patients with adenomatous polyps of the colon .
3 In contrast with other vitamin supplementation studies , this study assessed the effect of single vitamin supplements only , the study was prospective with a control group , subjects with familial polyposis coli were excluded and subjects were sequentially assigned to each group .
4 This study assessed the effect of metronidazole on the gastroduodenal mucosa , intestinal permeability , blood loss , and inflammation in patients on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) .
5 This study analyses the accounting policy choices made for selected industries that have been privatised during the 1980s , both before and after privatisation .
6 Building on the 1988 study by Gatherer and Edwards ( Spotlight No 11 ) on exchange of staff between colleges and schools , this study extended the inquiry to a wider range of teacher secondments : from the Scottish Office Education Department , the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum and the Regions .
7 Although subjects in this study viewed the films in randomized orders the subjects from Study 1 always performed the rating tasks first on relatively empty roads .
8 This study explored the role of the L-arginine-NO pathway in the regulation of gall bladder motility .
9 The methodological problems of this study to assess the impact of the SEM , are basically the same as those which seek to estimate the effects of the creation of the CU ( see Chapter 1 ) .
10 The results of this study support the guide lines recently published by the British Society of Gastroenterology .
11 So , there is little in this study to sustain the hopes of nineteenth-century liberal-democrats or to confirm the adequacy of the responsible party model as a realistic characterisation of the behaviour of voters in our politics .
12 This study compares the methods used to diagnose pyloric stenosis at Camperdown children 's hospital during two periods , 1974–7 and 1988–91 , to determine whether imaging is being used more frequently and whether it has led to earlier diagnosis and better management of pyloric stenosis .
13 This study compares the experience of Britain and Italy because whereas in Britain the expansion of higher education has been relatively tightly controlled and graduate unemployment has rarely if ever reached serious proportions , Italy is regarded as the classic case of uncontrolled enrolments leading to chronic overproduction of graduates even in the most vocational subjects .
14 This study compares the incidence rates of histologically confirmed gastric carcinoma in Oxfordshire in two five year periods ( 1960–64 , 1984–88 ) .
15 This study involves the secondary analysis of data collected as part of a major longitudinal study of pupils ' progress and development and the effects of primary schools in the inner London area during the 1980s .
16 This study describes the clinical events that occur when HBV , with or without HDV , infects the transplanted liver .
17 This study describes the value of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ( ERCP ) in patients with bile duct injury after laparoscopic cholecystectomy .
18 Male Wistar rats weighing 250–300 g , were used in this study to examine the pancreatic secretion and pancreatic blood flow during infusion of caerulein and to examine the involvement of platelet activating factor in the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis .
19 This study exemplifies the combined use of human and mouse genetics to dissect human genetic diseases involving multiple genes and complex phenotypes .
20 This study extends the work of a pilot study funded by ESRC ( C/00/23/2220 ) which examined the interaction between dear parents and their infants in the first 12 months of life .
21 This study investigated the mechanisms by which TAGH solution ( a mixture of triiodothyronine , amino acids , glucagon , and heparin ) induces DNA synthesis in hepatocytes in the liver of intact rats , with particular reference to events at the epidermal growth factor ( EGF ) receptor .
22 This study determined the location and tissue density of cells immunoreactive for tumour necrosis factor α ( TNF α ) in intestinal specimens from 24 patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease ( 15 with Crohn 's disease , nine with ulcerative colitis ) and 11 controls .
23 Any higher level processing must begin with orthography , hence this study forms the first part of a contextual system .
24 A study was undertaken by one of the authors in 1977 to investigate how trade exhibitions could be used more effectively as part of a communications programme , and the summary of the results of this study forms the remainder of this section ( Lancaster and Baron , 1977 ) .
25 Surgery for superobesity is obviously a last resort , but this study confirms the conclusion of earlier short term follow-up studies which found a good psychological outcome even in patients with a history of psychiatric treatment .
26 This study confirms the need to carry out a follow-through of all persons arrested and not look simply at discrete ‘ moments ’ in the process .
27 This study confirms the presence of this abnormality in patients with acute watery diarrhoea , by a dialysis technique that assessed absorption from the rectum .
28 This study has the distinction of being both critical and radical , essentially turning the tables on advocates of the postmodern and reading their rhetoric as symptomatic of a conservative milieu 's interests in a period of overall stagnation .
29 This study contradicts the ‘ flocculus hypotheses ’ , which requires activation of vestibular inputs during motor learning .
30 Although bovine and human lactoferrin have molecular and antigenic similarities , immunisation of experimental animals with bovine lactoferrin seldom seems to result in cross immunisation against human lactoferrin , and the lack of correlation between levels of anti-human lactoferrin and anti-bovine lactoferrin shown in this study contradicts the hypothesis that cross immunisation against dietary bovine lactoferrin explains the appearance of anti-human lactoferrin autoantibodies .
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