Foundations of Scientific Research

A well prepared abstract should enable the reader to identify the basic contentof a document quickly and accurately, to determine its relevance to their interests, andthus to decide whether to read the document in its entirety. The abstract shouldconcisely state the principal objectives and scope of the investigation where these arenot obvious from the title. More importantly, it should concisely summarize the resultsand principal conclusions. Do not include details of the methods employed unless thestudy is methodological, i.e. primarily concerned with methods.The abstract must be concise, not exceeding 250 words. If you can convey theessential details of the paper in 100 words, do not use 200. Do not repeat informationcontained in the title. The abstract, together with the title, must be self-contained as it ispublished separately from the paper in abstracting services such as Zentralblatt MATHor Mathematical Review. Omit all references to the literature and to tables or figures,and omit obscure abbreviations and acronyms even though they may be defined in mainbody of the paper.