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  2. Index term - Wikipedia

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    Index terms can consist of a word, phrase, or alphanumerical term. They are created by analyzing the document either manually with subject indexing or automatically with automatic indexing or more sophisticated methods of keyword extraction. Index terms can either come from a controlled vocabulary or be freely assigned.

  3. Research - Wikipedia

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    The research room at the New York Public Library, an example of secondary research in progress Maurice Hilleman, the preeminent vaccinologist of the 20th century, is credited with saving more lives than any other scientist in that time. [37] The goal of the research process is to produce new knowledge or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.

  4. Basic research - Wikipedia

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    Basic research advances fundamental knowledge about the world. It focuses on creating and refuting or supporting theories that explain observed phenomena. Pure research is the source of most new scientific ideas and ways of thinking about the world. It can be exploratory, descriptive, or explanatory; however, explanatory research is the most ...

  5. Glossary of experimental design - Wikipedia

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    Alias: When the estimate of an effect also includes the influence of one or more other effects (usually high order interactions) the effects are said to be aliased (see confounding). For example, if the estimate of effect D in a four factor experiment actually estimates (D + ABC), then the main effect D is aliased with the 3-way interaction ABC ...

  6. Scientific terminology - Wikipedia

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    Descriptive human anatomy or works on biological morphology often use such terms, for example, musculus gluteus maximus [13] simply means the "largest rump muscle", where musculus was the Latin for "little mouse" and the name applied to muscles. During the last two centuries there has been an increasing tendency to modernise the terminology ...

  7. Glossary of clinical research - Wikipedia

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    A type of research study that tests how well new medical approaches work in people. These studies test new methods of screening, prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a disease. Also called a clinical trial. (NCI) A clinical trial is a research study to answer specific questions about vaccines or new therapies or new ways of using known ...

  8. Quantitative research - Wikipedia

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    For example, based on analysis of the history of science, Kuhn concludes that "large amounts of qualitative work have usually been prerequisite to fruitful quantification in the physical sciences". [8] Qualitative research is often used to gain a general sense of phenomena and to form theories that can be tested using further quantitative research.

  9. Medical Subject Headings - Wikipedia

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    For example, the drug therapy of asthma is displayed as asthma/drug therapy. The remaining two types of term are those that describe the type of material that the article represents ( publication types ), and supplementary concept records (SCR) which describes substances such as chemical products and drugs that are not included in the headings ...