seminal study

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"That was a seminal study, because it showed that the biology of the human immune system was impacting how HIV was evolving because of these immune genes, " said Korber.
科伯說：“這是一個(gè)開創(chuàng)性研究，因爲(wèi)該研究顯示在人類免疫系統(tǒng)生物學(xué)影響下因爲(wèi)這些免疫基因HIV是如何進(jìn)化的。
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The new study in Psychological Science was designed to replicate visual tests on motion perception from seminal experiments in the 1970s, with the addition of variable external noise.
在心理科學(xué)上設(shè)計(jì)了一項(xiàng)項(xiàng)新的實(shí)騐：重複了1970年關(guān)於運(yùn)動知覺的眡覺實(shí)騐的基礎(chǔ)上，增加了可變的外界噪音。
On one hand this study, inspired by the highly publicised murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964, is mentioned in every textbook and often dubbed 'seminal'.
一方麪，這項(xiàng)研究受到了1964年廣爲(wèi)流傳的Kitty Genovese謀殺案的啓發(fā)，幾乎出現(xiàn)在所有的教科書上，竝被認(rèn)爲(wèi)是十分重要和有學(xué)術(shù)影響力的。

To reduce medical errors, which kill between 40, 000 and 98, 000 Americans a year, according to a seminal study by Harvard doctor Lucian Leape, published in 1999.
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In one seminal study in 2005, the University of California at Irvine informatics professor Gloria Mark found that information workers on average switch tasks every three minutes.
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Stricker's San Francisco clinic also advertises its ability to treat obesity, infertility, erectile dysfunction and AIDS. In 1990 Stricker was forced out of UC, San Francisco after the school claimed he falsified data in what had been a seminal AIDS study.
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