Then, too, the ins and outs of the recent purchases and sales of homes by friends and strangers weren't yet considered to be a hot dinnertime topic, nor was the abstract subject of real estate itself invested with potent symbolism for anyone other than Monopoly addicts.
Still, the vignettes are a simplified and abstract representation of real patients, which may have influenced the appraisals on acceptable waiting times.
She spoke to me with admiration of Miró's "Prades, the Village" — "I love the electric colors, the contrast of abstract to real, and the beautiful indigo sky in that painting" — but she could just as easily have been talking about her own artistic creations.
A team of researchers at Brown University and MIT is working to develop a system in which robots can plan tasks by developing abstract concepts of real-world objects and ideas based on motor skills.
They weren't even exactly abstract, being adaptations of real objects.
My thanks go to Kevin Antshel PhD and Michael Gordon PhD for providing abstracts of four real cases seen in the Childhood ADHD Clinic at the Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University.
satiating the journey from abstract to real.
PB-ROA abstracts the principles of real options analysis to suit naval design applications where the assets do not generate cash flows, and therefor one cannot define value in monetary terms.
Swales' examples of Move 1 ('Establishing a Territory') (1990, 2004) include these kind of abstract real world concepts, especially as a means of claiming centrality (Step 1).
Assumptions made in UnicellAge abstract from the details of real unicellular organisms for generality, yet capture the essence of empirical knowledge better than previous models.
