When the time comes to write their thesis, many Ph.D. candidates find it difficult to compress years of reading literature, conducting experiments, and analyzing results into a clear, complete, and coherent dissertation.
3 With societal expectances of an increasing older population, interventions that compress years with disability alongside increased life expectancy are warranted.
These movies compress years of practice, hard work and dedication into a two-hour visual montage of how easy it is to overcome a significantly better team, win a high-stakes game, and even acquire a really hot girlfriend in the process.
An elegant, unfussy writer, he compresses years of analysis into short chapters that feel like minimalist, suspenseful detective stories.
Deftly compressing years into pages, Ms. Lessing swiftly complicates this story: A teenage Victoria has an affair with Thomas, becomes pregnant, breaks off the affair, has the baby without telling him, marries another man, becomes a widow and eventually tells Thomas about their daughter, Mary.
Though the weaker tales in this volume highlight Mr. Trevor's penchant for manipulating his characters' fates to lend his story lines neat ironic twists, he always manages to give the reader a sense of the entire arc of their lives, compressing years, even decades, into a few sharply observed lines.
The measure marked the opening salvo in what is likely to be a contentious series of votes involving China in this campaign-compressed year.
There is little incentive for universities to compress three-year degrees into two years, as they would only be able to charge £18,000 instead of £27,000.
It grew out of an energy conference that took place in Shanghai in April and is headed by Peggy Liu, a former Silicon Valley executive who is now a venture capitalist in China.Ms Liu says its aim is to compress 30 years of clean-tech development into just ten, in part by bringing together innovators and investors.
"This week has been a little hectic, 'cause I've had to combine or compress 15 years of communication through art into ten minutes of communication through words," Felländer tells me over coffee, "which is more challenging than I thought".
He said such a disaster meant survivors could scavenge while they learned; his book, The Knowledge: How To Rebuild the World From Scratch, explains how to compress 10,000 years of science and technological learning into the aftermath of a disaster to avoid another Dark Age.
