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Unit of observation versus unit of analysis
BMJ, 2014Researchers investigated the effects of a school based educational programme aimed at reducing the consumption of carbonated drinks to prevent weight gain in children aged 7-11 years. A cluster randomised controlled trial study design was used. The programme, which was delivered over one school year, focused on promoting a healthy diet.
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1996
Researchers aiming to measure poverty, inequality and social welfare need to make important decisions about the appropriate target group, about the unit of analysis, in Sen’s (1992) terminology the target space, and about the period over which the analysis may be conducted.
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Researchers aiming to measure poverty, inequality and social welfare need to make important decisions about the appropriate target group, about the unit of analysis, in Sen’s (1992) terminology the target space, and about the period over which the analysis may be conducted.
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BMJ, 2013
Researchers assessed the effectiveness of a physical activity programme during one school year on the physical and psychological health of young schoolchildren. A cluster randomised controlled trial design was used. The physical activity programme consisted of three existing physical education lessons each week supplemented by a further two lessons ...
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Researchers assessed the effectiveness of a physical activity programme during one school year on the physical and psychological health of young schoolchildren. A cluster randomised controlled trial design was used. The physical activity programme consisted of three existing physical education lessons each week supplemented by a further two lessons ...
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Unit analysis of hippocampal population spikes
Experimental Brain Research, 19711. The assumption that the negative extracellular population spikes recorded from the pyramidal or granular layers in the hippocampal formation in response to appropriate afferent volleys is due to the sum of individual unitary discharges was tested by recording unit activity and population spike with microelectrodes, using normal and ultrashort ...
P, Andersen, T V, Bliss, K K, Skrede
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2002
Having defined the relevance to the present study of the methodological techniques advanced by scholars in recent years, it is necessary to define the subject of research. In order to achieve this goal, we need to break it down into its component units: foreign direct investment (FDI), transition, the state, and, finally, legal regulation.
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Having defined the relevance to the present study of the methodological techniques advanced by scholars in recent years, it is necessary to define the subject of research. In order to achieve this goal, we need to break it down into its component units: foreign direct investment (FDI), transition, the state, and, finally, legal regulation.
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An Analysis of Drum Storage Units
Journal of the ACM, 1975This article discusses the modeling and analysis of drum-like storage units. Two common forms of drum organizations and two common scheduling disciplines are considered: the file drum and the paging drum; first-in-first-out (FIFO) scheduling and shortest-latency-time-first (SLTF) scheduling.
Fuller, Samuel H., Baskett, Forest
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Descriptive analysis of critical care units in the United States
Critical Care Medicine, 1992To gather data about available technology, staffing, administrative policies, and bed capacities of ICUs in the United States.On January 15, 1991, survey instruments were mailed to the administrators of 4,233 hospitals to gather information from the medical director of the institutions' respective ICUs for the purpose of developing a database on ICUs ...
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2013
This chapter specifies, profiles, and evaluates the unit of analysis chosen for the present study, i.e. the manager for whom the impact of discretion on performance is being investigated. As there is a particular need to clarify the performance impact of discretion at the middle management level in China, the unit of analysis is the plant manager of ...
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This chapter specifies, profiles, and evaluates the unit of analysis chosen for the present study, i.e. the manager for whom the impact of discretion on performance is being investigated. As there is a particular need to clarify the performance impact of discretion at the middle management level in China, the unit of analysis is the plant manager of ...
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Units of Sociological Analysis
Sociology, 1972Analytical methodologies assume `resolution into simple elements' as a necessary preliminary stage of scholarly investigation. They explicitly, or more often implicitly accept, therefore, that the conclusions reached reflect not only the phenomena analysed, but also the applied system of analytical subdivision. The paper explores and compares the main
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