brief overview

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brief
adjective
uk
/briːf/
us
/briːf/
lasting only a short time or containing ...
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overview
noun[C]
uk
/ˈəʊ.və.vjuː/
us
/ˈoʊ.vɚ.vjuː/
a short description of something that provides general information about it, but ...
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Abriefoverviewof the status of radiation oncology in developing countries will be presented in order to locate the study.
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Thisbriefoverviewdemonstrates that there is no tradition of working with older people on housing design and management issues.
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We now give abriefoverviewof the kind of linguistic information that is relevant for prosody computation.
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This article outlines a framework for tutor training, starting with abriefoverviewof benefits and challenges for online language tutors.
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In this article, we have given abriefoverviewof current conceptualisations of coordination.
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Table 3 only gives abriefoverviewof the level of modifications made to the technologies.
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In thisbriefoverviewof the immune system, we have extracted four examples of selection.
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After providing abriefoverviewof young women's changing employment and earnings patterns, the importance of waged work in structuring leisure access is examined.
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The theoretical part of this paper gives abriefoverviewof different models used to calculate the radiative opacity of hot dense plasmas.
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The remainder of the paper is organized as follows: in section 2, we provide abriefoverviewof pure type systems.
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The remainder of this section provides abriefoverviewof the approach we are implementing.
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We conclude this section with abriefoverviewof issues involving the resource-boundedness of agents.
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It begins with abriefoverviewof the terrestrial ecosystem, with a report on plants and land-based animals.
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Section 2 contains abriefoverviewof the structure of the ribosome.
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There is also abriefoverviewof theoretical approaches to phonology ranging from structuralism through optimality.
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Below we give only abriefoverviewof the derivation.
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This verybriefoverviewof learner-centredness is of course a simplification.
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Abriefoverviewaddressing the shape of the overall tradition concludes the volume.
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The following is abriefoverviewof the model formulation.
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I start with abriefoverviewof and a preliminary observation on these openings.
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