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- Dictionaryabridged/əˈbrijd/
adjective
- 1. (of a piece of writing) having been shortened: "an abridged text of the speech"
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22 hours ago · Rachel Cusk’s novel Outline is a deep exploration of the world of autofiction, a genre that blends autobiography and fiction to offer a raw, personal truth. Published in 2014, Outline follows the character of Faye, as she meets people along the sultry summer streets of Athens. Through the autofictional, the novel presents a series of conversations that challenge the conventions of ...
5 days ago · Memory is the encoding, storage, and retrieval in the human mind of past experiences. The basic pattern of remembering involves attention to an event followed by representation of that event in the brain. Repeated attention, or practice, enables activities such as playing a musical instrument or recitation of a poem.
1 day ago · Objective: The Test of Self-Conscious Affect-3 (TOSCA-3) is a scenario-based measure of self-conscious emotions. We aimed to create an abridged version of the TOSCA-3 that is appropriate for Japanese populations and has a good fit with the data, as well as validate its subscales. Methods: The TOSCA-3 was distributed to (a) a university student population (n = 512: Study 1) and (b) a parent ...
13 hours ago · Why some love it: Go's strongly idiomatic rules ensure code will be easier to grok. Teams will have fewer fights over style because there are fewer options or reasons to evolve their own personal ...
1 day ago · Every day, parents make choices and act in deliberate ways to help shape their children into people with character, respect, a sense of responsibility, motivation, and skills to help them be both successful as kids and as adults. Leading relates to this preparation.
2 days ago · Its particular scheme of rhyme and meter henceforth defined the epic genre of Persian poetry. To be considered authentic, all subsequent epics would have to conform to it. This grand epic thus became an early text in a rapidly consolidating canon of Persian literature that would serve as a model for other regional tongues when they, in turn, attained literary status and became cosmopolitan ...
