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précis

A concise summary or abstract of a book, article, speech or other text.
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With prices starting at just pounds 19 in sizes 8-18, Precis measures up whatever the occasion, offering the perfect seasonal wardrobe for autumn/winter.
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NewsWeeder brings together a number of technologies including XML, full-text indexing, text-to-speech, a proprietary precis algorithm and an AJAX user interface.
The Oxoid Salmonella Precis method is, therefore, extremely valuable to food testing laboratories where a quick result is required.
Information of the input data used to construct current and future scenarios is based on the regional climate projection models MM5 and PRECIS (see Table 4).
Once due allowance is made for his liberal bias, Dean Baker presents a thorough and lucid precis of the causes and consequences of public policy in the United States in the years since Jimmy Carter left the White House.
Also included is a history of census growth, a precis of technical facts about each census, a discussion of census accuracy, an essay on the sources available for identifying each state's old county lines, and a statement with each map indicating which county census lists survive and which are lost, and an index listing all present-day counties, defunct counties, and re-named counties.
Then comes a bit of Asian history, a nicely written precis of the Mongol advance or the opium wars, for example, and some observations on historical and cultural injustices of life, injustices that ultimately lead people to have unprotected sex or share needles.
Buijs est l'un des premiers ingenieurs physiciens a avoir mis au point, au cours des annees 1970, la technologie permettant de mesurer l'etat precis de la couche d'ozone.