across subjects

English translation: over the entire range of research subjects...

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English term or phrase:across subjects
Selected answer:over the entire range of research subjects...
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher

13:25 May 5, 2019
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Social Sciences - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / research on meditation
English term or phrase: across subjects
Dear colleagues,
I have a doubt about the meaning of “across subjects” with regard to research in the passage below (near the end of the passage): might it mean “large scale research”? The book is about a meditation technique called The Wheel of Awareness.
Thank you so much for any hint and happy Sunday afternoon!

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Studies of compassion in expert meditators reveal that the brain’s functioning has high degrees of electrical signals of integration during practice—in the baseline state while awake, and even while asleep. As stated earlier, these gamma waves emerge as differentiated areas of the brain become coordinated and linked with one another. The finding of gamma with compassion supports the notion that a possible mechanism beneath statements of kind intention is that they are promoting states of neural integration.
As integration appears to be the basis for healthy regulation, we can see that meditative practice may work at the brain level in how it promotes the growth of integration.
The Wheel of Awareness, as we’ve seen from the beginning, has each of the three pillars of mind training, cultivating focused attention, open awareness, and kind intention, and so** with future research we would anticipate that across subjects ** we would find these same neural correlates of growth and integration
haribert
Local time: 11:26
across research subjects (expert meditators)
Explanation:
i.e. "subjects" are the people who are being studied here

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or less ambiguous perhaps: (HUMAN) SUBJECTS OF THE RESEARCH BEING CONDUCTED

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Note added at 15 mins (2019-05-05 13:40:57 GMT)
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here is a definition about what constitutes a hunam subject

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/45-cfr-46-protection-human-subj...
"living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research obtains (1) data through intervention or interaction with the individual, or (2) identifiable private information."

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Note added at 18 mins (2019-05-05 13:44:20 GMT)
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ACROSS> over the range/scope of subjects (possibly taking a high/low/average or mean in results)

I really wish you'd make your question more clear when asking

where is "across subjects design" in the context you've given?

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Note added at 9 hrs (2019-05-05 23:06:12 GMT)
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"across subjects design" has a different meaning to "across subjects" (without design). BUT since it's not in the text and not your question anyway there's no point in discussing further. No point in getting the two meanings tangled.

And yes, you can ask about one term in the heading, as long as you include
the full context in the rest of the question. And here that's vital as the writing can be so fuzzy.

I already gave you my reading of "across" in this context.
I'll repeat
ACROSS> OVER the ENTIRE range of human subjects in the research study and no, it doesn't necessarily have to be a large-scale study. Just that across means it takes research data on ALL (human) subjects being studied into account.

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original research done on "expert meditators" with future research to be carried out on those using The Wheel to see if results match...

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Note added at 2 days 8 hrs (2019-05-07 21:34:20 GMT) Post-grading
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Glad to have helped
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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 10:26
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Thank you so much, Yvonne, for your valuable help! Many thanks also to all other participants here and in the Discussion!
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across research subjects (expert meditators)


Explanation:
i.e. "subjects" are the people who are being studied here

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Note added at 5 mins (2019-05-05 13:31:48 GMT)
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or less ambiguous perhaps: (HUMAN) SUBJECTS OF THE RESEARCH BEING CONDUCTED

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Note added at 15 mins (2019-05-05 13:40:57 GMT)
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here is a definition about what constitutes a hunam subject

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/45-cfr-46-protection-human-subj...
"living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research obtains (1) data through intervention or interaction with the individual, or (2) identifiable private information."

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Note added at 18 mins (2019-05-05 13:44:20 GMT)
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ACROSS> over the range/scope of subjects (possibly taking a high/low/average or mean in results)

I really wish you'd make your question more clear when asking

where is "across subjects design" in the context you've given?

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Note added at 9 hrs (2019-05-05 23:06:12 GMT)
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"across subjects design" has a different meaning to "across subjects" (without design). BUT since it's not in the text and not your question anyway there's no point in discussing further. No point in getting the two meanings tangled.

And yes, you can ask about one term in the heading, as long as you include
the full context in the rest of the question. And here that's vital as the writing can be so fuzzy.

I already gave you my reading of "across" in this context.
I'll repeat
ACROSS> OVER the ENTIRE range of human subjects in the research study and no, it doesn't necessarily have to be a large-scale study. Just that across means it takes research data on ALL (human) subjects being studied into account.

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Note added at 22 hrs (2019-05-06 11:35:45 GMT)
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original research done on "expert meditators" with future research to be carried out on those using The Wheel to see if results match...

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Note added at 2 days 8 hrs (2019-05-07 21:34:20 GMT) Post-grading
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Glad to have helped

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 10:26
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Grading comment
Thank you so much, Yvonne, for your valuable help! Many thanks also to all other participants here and in the Discussion!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Hi, Yvonne! Thank you for your contribution...actually my doubt is more about the meaning of "across"... because I've found that there is an "across subjects design", but I'm not sure it's relevant here...

Asker: Sorry, Yvonne, I thought "across" alone would be too generic.. There is actually no "across subjects design" in this text, but I've found it's a type of research studies, and I wondered whether the use of "across" in this context might refer to this type of research... Or maybe it might refer to "so as to include or take into consideration all classes or categories" as Merriam Webster says., so in a sense "a large scale study"?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: This is nonsense dressed up as science, so it's not easy to translate.
51 mins
  -> Thanks:-) Fairly typical of that type of book I'd say

agree  Tina Vonhof (X): Across subjects means 'in most subjects', just like 'across the world' means in most parts of the world.
1 hr
  -> Thanks:-)

agree  Katalin Horváth McClure
16 hrs
  -> Thanks:-)

agree  B D Finch: Also agree with philgoddard's comment.
21 hrs
  -> Thanks:-)

agree  Robert Forstag
22 hrs
  -> Thanks:-)
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