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  2. Retrospective cohort study - Wikipedia

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    A retrospective cohort study, also called a historic cohort study, is a longitudinal cohort study used in medical and psychological research. A cohort of individuals that share a common exposure factor is compared with another group of equivalent individuals not exposed to that factor, to determine the factor's influence on the incidence of a ...

  3. Retrospective - Wikipedia

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    A retrospective (from Latin retrospectare, "look back"), generally, is a look back at events that took place, or works that were produced, in the past. As a noun, retrospective has specific meanings in software development, popular culture, and the arts. It is applied as an adjective, synonymous with the term retroactive, to laws, standards ...

  4. Retrospective diagnosis - Wikipedia

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    The term retrospective diagnosis is also sometimes used by a clinical pathologist to describe a medical diagnosis in a person made some time after the original illness has resolved or after death. In such cases, analysis of a physical specimen may yield a confident medical diagnosis.

  5. Ex post facto law - Wikipedia

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    For example, Article 29 of the Constitution of Albania explicitly allows retroactive effect for laws that alleviate possible punishments. Ex post facto criminalization is prohibited by Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights , Article 15(1) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights , [ 3 ] and Article 9 of the ...

  6. Extraordinary assumptions and hypothetical conditions

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    One of the more troublesome examples of the distinction between extraordinary assumptions and hypothetical conditions regards the valuation of property with proposed improvements or proposed alterations. Such examples require the understanding of and inter-relation with prospective values, retrospective values, and contemporary values.

  7. Retroactive continuity - Wikipedia

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    Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which facts in the world of a fictional work that have been established through the narrative itself are adjusted, ignored, supplemented, or contradicted by a subsequently published work that recontextualizes or breaks continuity with the former.

  8. Interference theory - Wikipedia

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    Despite the retroactive interference noted by Wohldmann et al., researchers noted that mental practice decreased the amount of retroactive interference, suggesting that mental practice is more flexible and durable over time. [25] This study of the superiority effect of physical practice is similar to the Word Superiority Effect made famous by ...

  9. Retrospective memory - Wikipedia

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    Retrospective memory is the memory of people, words, and events encountered or experienced in the past. It includes all other types of memory including episodic , semantic and procedural . [ 1 ] It can be either implicit or explicit .