A Primer on Exporting to Barbados by Christina D. Storz, Timothy G. Taylor, Gary F. Fairchild

“…This paper provides an abridged version of the Country Commercial Guide for Barbados as well as supplemental information of direct relevance to agribusiness firms. …”
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Flaubert libre lecteur. À propos de l’Abrégé du catéchisme de persévérance de l’abbé Gaume by Stéphanie Dord-Crouslé

“…Preserved in the files of the public library in Rouen (ms g 226 (6) f° 227 to 229), the notes that the novelist took from the abridged version of a catechism by the abbé Gaume are particularly revealing: their analysis brings to light various mechanisms at work in his practice of primary documentation as well as in the secondary writing process of the novel (in fact here chapter IX of Bouvard and Pécuchet). …”
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“RAIN was planting the seeds”: An Interview with Tom Bender, co-editor of RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology by Meredith Gaglio

“…During that period, the Rainmakers, led by Steve Johnson, Lee Johnson, Land de Moll, and Tom Bender, constructed a visionary ecotopia on the pages of their journal, supplying readers with the philosophical grounding, real-world advice, and political conviction to pursue AT projects within their own communities. This article is an abridged transcript of an interview conducted by architectural historian, Meredith Gaglio, with one of RAIN’s co-editors, the late Tom Bender, at his home in Manzanita, Oregon, in April, 2016. …”
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Data Collecting and Research of Folk Medicine in Estonia During the Soviet Era by Ave Tupits

“…Focused interest of folklorists in this topic grew significantly in the 1970s and 1980s, the last decades of the Soviet era, when official access to folk healers was allowed and New Age phenomena spread. The article is an abridged version of a chapter in an upcoming doctoral dissertation analysing the collecting and research of folk medicine in Estonia in the 20th century.…”
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Monuments of early East Slav-Serbian literary relations as sources for studying Serbian identity by Jelesijević Snežana V.

“…Abstract: A larger segment of this paper is dedicated to the presentation of the major results of studying Saint Sava's Nomocanon to date, including the data about Serbian-Slavic transcripts, Serbian abridged version of the Old Church Slavonic language and examples of Moscow printed Krmčija in Serbian collections from 1649 to 1653. …”
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Decoration, Deviation, and the Selected Edition: Some Poems of Lionel Johnson (1912) by Jeremy Valentine Freeman

“…With the 1912 publication by Elkin Mathews of a selection from Lionel Johnson’s posthumous works titled Some Poems of Lionel Johnson, the complex representation, marketing, and intellectual inheritance of Victorian, late-Victorian, and fin de siècle lyric poetics are represented in a unique material and culturally specific form. By radically abridging the collected writings of Johnson and distilling them into a marketable form, Mathews constructs particular ways of reading the poetry book of the fin de siècle and of creating a poetry book that could function as a seductive short encounter for the reader. …”
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The collection of Lithuanian books in the British library (continuation) by Aušra Navickienė, Janet Zmrozek

“…The first part of the list, titled "The Descriptions of Lithuanian Books and Old Lithuanian Texts in Foreign Language Books of 1547-1864 at the British Library," along with the article, was published in volume 25(32) of "Knygotyra." The list includes abridged bibliographical descriptions, the British Library's signatures, information on physical condition, marks of books, information about the sources of acquisition (date of acquisition, sources, and method of acquisition), and bibliographical sources and literature related to the book. …”
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Histoire de la réception et histoire du livre by Roger Chartier

“…For its demonstration the article develops two case studies devoted to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, which closely associate the materiality of texts with the signification of the works: firstly, the different modes of circulation of Shakespeare’s plays and poems (in quarto or folio formats, in collections linking them with other works and other authors, in commonplace books or as quotations in eighteenth-century Shakespearean “Beauties”), and secondly, the multiple forms of appropriation of Don Quixote in England: translations, theatrical adaptations, abridged editions. The conclusion of the article summarises the textual clues or ‘non-verbal’ elements that propose or impose expectations, interpretations and receptions of the works.…”
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Effect of Fibre Aspect-Ratio on the Fresh and Strength Properties of Steel Fibre Reinforced Self-Compacting Concrete by Panneerselvam Arul Sivanantham, Ganapathy Ganesh Prabhu, George Gabriel Vimal Arokiaraj, Killi Sunil

“…The presence of steel fibre in the SCC lessened the workability; furthermore, the upsurge in the inclusion rate of steel fibre abridged the workability further. The inclusion of fibre boosted the compressive strength of the SCC moderately, and conversely, an overwhelming increase in flexural and tensile strength was observed. …”
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Relationship of individual psychological peculiarities of convicts with a tendency to auto-aggressive behavior by M. A. Sergeeva, L. F. Fursi, A. S. Kubekova

“…Razuvaeva; mini-cartoon (abridged version of MMPI, Russian adaptation by V.P. …”
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A Comparison of Two Anastomotic Techniques in the Jejunum of the Goat by H. A. Al-Timmemi, Karim Al-Jashamy, Mohammed S. Dauod

“…Macroscopic evaluation indicated that the anastomotic line mucosa was abridged better with less local edema in the SSIS group. …”
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The mediating role of illness perception in the relationship between psychological hardiness and the health status of covid-19 (coronavirus disease) survived patients by Sajjad Rezaei, Mohammad Hoseini nia, Mozhgan Vakilian

“…In a cross-sectional study, 205 Covid-19 were selected by purposive sampling from Qom (the first coronavirus epidemiological site in Iran) and responded to Abridged Hardiness Scale (AHS) and Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (Brief IPQ) and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). …”
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Mọ́remí or Mọ́rèmí: An Investigation into the Perception Error of a Deified Woman in Ilé-Ifẹ̀ by Ọladiipọ Ajiboye

“…Instead, what we have is ‘Mọ́rèmí, an abridged form of Ọmọ-ọ́ n rè mí ‘(having) child (ren) pleases me’. …”
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TEIGINIO COGITO ERGO SUMLEGITIMIŠKUMO PROBLEMA by Alvydas Noreika

“…But logical operator ergo existing between cogito and sum shows that cogito - is premise, sum is conclusion, and proposition cogito ergo sum - is abridged syllogism or entimema (omitted general presupposition is "Everyone, who thinks, exists"). …”
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Bridging theory and practice in peer-to-peer energy trading: market mechanisms and technological innovations by Pravesh Raghoo, Kalim Shah

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Treatment compliance at initial and maintenance therapy at gastroesophageal reflux disease by V. I. Simanenkov, S. V. Tikhonov, N. B. Lischuk

“…Total period of patients monitoring was 12 months at which patients made five visits to the research center: initial, through 1.5, 3, 6 and 12 months with filling in of questionnaires of Spielberger-Khanin, Beck, SF-36 and abridged multifactorial questionnaire of the personality (AMQP). …”
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Impact of economic shocks on mental health during COVID-19: A longitudinal study of adult residents of Indian metropolitan cities by Zakir Husain, Mousumi Dutta, Saswata Ghosh, Soumitra S. Datta

“…Materials and Methods: The data were collected using the abridged version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Schedule administered through a telephonic survey on adult residents of six metropolitan cities in September–August 2020 and July–August 2021. …”
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Słowo - obraz - pamięć w labiryntach komiksu by Grażyna Gajewska

“…In the UK it won juvenile audience with its simple jokes, genre scenes and shortened and abridged versions o f fables. In the United States, in turn, crude science fiction, horror or joke graphic stories were most popular. …”
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Making Maoshan Great Again: Religious Rhetoric and Popular Mobilisation from Late Qing to Republican China (1864–1937) by Qijun Zheng

“…Through a detailed analysis of primary sources, including editions of the <i>Maoshan Gazetteer</i>, liturgical manuals such as the scripture (<i>jing</i> 經), litany (<i>chan</i> 懺), and performative texts such as the precious scroll (<i>baojuan</i> 寶卷) of the Three Mao Lords, this study identifies six key rhetoric strategies employed by Maoshan Daoists, using the acronym IMPACT: (1) Incorporation: Appending miracle tales (<i>lingyan ji</i> 靈驗記) and divine medicine (<i>xianfang</i> 仙方) to address immediate and practical needs of contemporary society; (2) Memory: Preserving doctrinal continuity while invoking cultural nostalgia to reinforce connections to traditional values and heritage; (3) Performance: Collaborating with professional storytellers to disseminate vernacularized texts through oral performances, thereby reaching broader audiences including the illiterate. (4) Abridgment: Condensing lengthy texts into concise and accessible formats; (5) Canonization: Elevating the divine status of deities through spirit-writing, thereby enhancing their religious authority; (6) Translation: Rendering classical texts into vernacular language for broader accessibility. …”
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Enhancing surveillance for dengue fever in Oyo State, Nigeria – a one health approach by Olawale Sunday Animasaun, Joseph Ojonugwa Shaibu, Busayo Kayode Akomolafe, Olamide Priscilla Animasaun, Piring’ar Mercy Niyang, Olukemi Titilope Olugbade, Akinfemi Oyewumi Akinyode, Ibukun Akinsola Omisakin, Adedapo Olufemi Adeogun, Rosemary Ajuma Audu

“…Meteorological data was obtained from the Nigeria Meteorological Agency. Data was abridged as proportions and correlation analysis was performed. …”
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