Behind the room, away from public view, workers in a hive of cubicles study data and decibel levels — of both the aircraft and the complaining public.
Carrel, cubicle or study for reading and literary work; the word is derived from the Middle English carole, "round dance," or "carol".
Still, Mr. Bronson said he didn't know anyone who had actually read it, much less abandoned a cubicle to study yabusame (horseback archery) in Japan, as Mr. Ferriss did last month.
When given a choice to be at pasture or in cubicle housing, studies have shown that time of day, season, and where feed is provided can influence preference.
Still unable to get into the working mood, I was dilly-dallying at my desk, flipping over my notes as my laboratory's research officer shouted over the partial partition of my study cubicle, "Lynn!
However, in the present study, cubicle use recording was by design associated with late pregnancy, while in the cited study there was no association between recording cubicle refusal and pregnancy status.
The observation methods used in the 2 first cited studies are not described, whereas in the German study, cubicle use was observed in a more detailed manner than in the present study.
In a study of cubicle refusal in cubicle sheds during the last week before calving, it was found that 29% of the heifers refused to lie in the cubicles compared with only 3% of older cows [ 7].
The term originally referred to carrels in the north cloister walk of a Benedictine monastery and today designates study cubicles in libraries.
The design and dimensions of the cubicles in the study are given in Table 3 and the estimates for the different risk factors are given in Table 4.
The result for Day 15 is comparable to that of [ 7], who studied cubicle use during the last week of pregnancy and found that 29% of the heifers were showing cubicle refusal during this time.
