The choice of the tasks used in the training and test sessions was based on the relevant predecessor studies (e.g., Brooks et al., 1993; see Table 4 for an overview).
The statistical methods followed the same conventions that were used for the predecessor studies and were done post hoc.
This is the first UK pregnancy cohort for 20 years to investigate smoking behaviour in pregnancy and, we believe, it may include more detailed longitudinal data on smoking and its determinants than any predecessor studies.
The design of the predecessor BNP study was previously reported [ 12].
He read history at Magdalen College, Oxford, where his predecessor, Emmott, studied politics, philosophy and economics.
An article on Oct. 17 about idiosyncratic films by three first-time directors misstated the name of the school in Winston-Salem, N.C., where a predecessor, David Gordon Green, studied filmmaking.
In the cadences of some of the early poems there's a hint, or more, of Larkin, in the careful and well-mannered grotesqueries of, say, the farm "where pigs on tip-toes / piss with such a haunted look", but Reid is thankfully free of his predecessor's studied weariness, and approaches his subjects with a more gracious and forgiving shake of the head.
Goodman's predecessor in studying a constitutional system by the means of modern formal logic is, as we already said, Rudolf Carnap, who follows a very similar project as Goodman in his Der logische Aufbau der Welt (Carnap 1928).
Instead the entrepreneurship scholar might learn much more from successful predecessors by studying how they solved the problems any start-up entrepreneur faces.
He has also requested documents and information from the banks, examined material given to his predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, and studied issues raised in lawsuits against the banks.
