'abstracts' is a correct word in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a summary of something such as an article or book. For example: "The professor asked the students to submit abstracts of their research papers."
Recursion is an early example of operation or mechanism abstraction: it abstracts away from the mechanisms of the underlying machine.
Auriol is explicit that universal concepts (formed through the Aristotelian process of abstraction) always appear to us as abstractive cognitions, since what is universal abstracts from any presentness and directness of the object of cognition (see e.g. Scriptum, Prologue, q. 2, ed. Buytaert, p. 206, n. 111, l. 87, Pasnau 2002, p. 207; cf. Friedman 1997, pp. 310 14).
In NLPor, Kilwardby describes the process of abstraction as the interaction of two aspects of the intellect: the agent intellect abstracts the intelligible species (species intelligibiles) from the images of sensible things acquired through sense perception.
Past imagery has included super-subtle abstracts and atmospheric landscapes as well as a graffiti menagerie, caricature portraits and severed tree trunks.
Instead, the newly minted laureates have created something that focuses on what researchers are interested in, and abstracts away the rest.
So, emerging from art school in Jerusalem and Paris, he became a modernist for seven years, painting apocalyptic abstracts dominated by black, until he seemed to hit the bottom of a well.
Dr Hovig's knowledge-creating tool, unveiled in this month's Nature Genetics, is a computer program that searches the titles and abstracts of these articles looking for "co-occurrences" of the names of genes in a single paper.
The Lady of the Lamp was already famous for nursing British soldiers wounded in the Crimea; Farr, the Compiler of Abstracts in the General Registry Office, was widely recognised as an innovative statistician.
The rarefied theory of optimal taxation abstracts from grimy real-world politics and instead assumes a far-seeing technocrat planner who simply calculates the revenue-maximising tax and dispassionately applies it.
Yet, when Susan van Rooyen and Sandra Goldbeck-Wood of the British Medical Journal and Fiona Godlee of BioMed Central, a database of scientific abstracts, analysed 129 research articles submitted to the BMJ by 588 authors, they found that this was not always the case.
They used the software to read the abstracts of 186,879 papers and produced a list of the most promising kinases for experiments.
