Abstract

An abstract is a short statement about your project designed to give the reader a complete, yet concise, understanding of your project. It is usually only one paragraph long.

Title:

• What is the best way to summarise your project? Aim for a single, concise phrase that indicates both the content and context of your work.

Background and Problem:

• Why is your topic important / significant?
• What is the problem you're trying to solve?
• What is the history of this problem OR what have people done to solve this problem?

Aims:

• What are you trying to achieve in your research project?

Methodology / Methods & Materials:

• What approach / study design did you take in your project?
• What were the procedures you carried out? Include measurement and data analysis techniques.

Results & Discussion: 

• Did the data or results support what you were trying to achieve? 
• If not, would could be the issues? How can you improve or refine the study in future?
• What implications do your results have for the field of research and/or practice?

Conclusions:

• What conclusions have you come to about your topic?

You have the option of using this template for your VRES deliverables, however this is not a requirement.

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Example 1: 

Title: Homogeneous Intrinsic Neuronal Excitability Induces Overfitting to Sensory Noise: A Robot Model of Neurodevelopmental Disorder
Authors:   Hayato Idei, Shingo Murata, Yuichi Yamashita & Tetsuya Ogata

Example 2:

Title: Producing Radiologist-Quality Reports for Interpretable Deep Learning
Authors:  W. Gale, L. Oakden-Rayner, G. Carneiro, L. J. Palmer & A.P. Bradley