Mississippi Academy of Sciences--abstract instructions.PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT [GRAPHIC OMITTED] * Your paper may be presented orally or as a poster. Oral presentations are generally 15 minutes although some divisions allow more time. The speaker should limit a 15 minute presentation to 10-12 minutes to allow time for discussion; longer presentations should be limited accordingly. Instructions for poster presentations are given on the reverse side of this sheet. * Enclose a personal check, money order, institutional check, or purchase order for $25 publication charge for each abstract to be published, payable to the Mississippi Academy of Sciences. The publication charge will be refunded if the abstract is not accepted. * The presenting author must be a member of the Academy at the time the paper/poster is presented. Payment for membership of the presenting author must accompany the abstract. * Attendance and participation at all sessions requires payment of registration. * Note that three separate fees are associated with submitting and presenting a paper at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences. (1) An abstract fee is assessed to defray de·fray tr.v. de·frayed, de·fray·ing, de·frays To undertake the payment of (costs or expenses); pay. [French défrayer, from Old French desfrayer : des-, the cost of publishing abstracts and (2) a membership fee is assessed to defray the costs of running the Academy. (3) Preregistration pre·reg·is·tra·tion n. An early registration, as for returning college students, that takes place before general registration. payment ($15 regular; $5 student) may accompany the abstract, or you may elect to pay this fee before January 14th, or pay full registration fees at the meeting. * Abstracts may be submitted by e-mail or entered directly through the MAS website. The URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. is http://www.msacad.org. This abstract submission form and the appropriate fees should be sent by US mail even if the abstract has been submitted electronically. * Abstracts may be submitted as a WordPerfect, Word, ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. , ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. , or .RTF (Rich Text Format) A document format from Microsoft for encoding text and graphics. It was adapted from IBM's DCA format and supports ANSI, IBM PC and Macintosh character sets. file on a PC readable diskette The official name for the floppy disk. See floppy disk. diskette - floppy disk . Formatting should be minimal. This abstract submission form and the appropriate fees should be sent by US mail even if a diskette is used for the abstract. * Abstracts may be submitted typed or printed on clean white paper. Abstracts received in this form will be scanned into a computer. Leave ample margins and use a sanserif type font A set of print characters of a particular design (typeface), size (point size) and weight (light, medium, heavy). See font. to help minimize errors in scanning. * Abstracts that are resubmitted for changes will incur a $10 resubmission fee. * Late abstracts will be accepted with a $10 late fee during November increased to $25 after that. Late abstracts will be accepted only if there is room in the appropriate division. They will be published in the April issue of the MAS JOURNAL. * Submit your abstract and appropriate fees to the Abstracts' Editor, John Boyle John Boyle may be:
* Late abstracts will be accepted with a $10 late fee and only if there is room in the appropriate division. They will be published in the April issue of the MAS journal. Dr. John Boyle Mississippi State University Mississippi State University, at Mississippi State, near Starkville; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1878 as an agricultural and mechanical college, opened 1880. From 1932 to 1958 it was known as Mississippi State College. Dept. of Biochemistry P.O. Drawer 9650 Mississippi State, MS 39762 FORMAT FOR ABSTRACT * Your abstract should be informative, containing: (a) a sentence statement of the study's specific objectives, unless this is given in the title; (b) brief statement of methods, if pertinent; (c) summary of the results obtained; (d) statement of the conclusions. It is not satisfactory to state, "The results will be discussed." * Your abstract, including a concise, descriptive title, author(s), location where work was done, text and acknowledgment, may not exceed 250 words. Excessively long abstracts will be truncated. * The title should be all capital letters. Use significant words descriptive of subject content. * Authors' names start a new line. * The institution where your research was done should include city, state, and zip code. Do not include institutional subdivisions such as department. * The abstract should be one paragraph, single spaced, starting with a 3-space indentation in·den·ta·tion n. A notch, a pit, or a depression. . * Use standard abbreviations for common units of measure. Other words to be abbreviated, such as chemical names, should be spelled out in full for the first use, followed by the abbreviation abbreviation, in writing, arbitrary shortening of a word, usually by cutting off letters from the end, as in U.S. and Gen. (General). Contraction serves the same purpose but is understood strictly to be the shortening of a word by cutting out letters in the middle, in parenthesis parenthesis: see punctuation. The left parenthesis "(" and right parenthesis ")" are used to delineate one expression from another. For example, in the query list for size="34" and (color = "red" or color ="green") . Do not abbreviate in the abstract title. * Special symbols not on your printer or typewriter must be in black ink. * Use italics for scientific names of organisms. * Begin authors' names on a new line. Place an asterisk (*) after the presenter(s), if there are multiple authors. * Use superscripts for institutional affiliations where necessary to avoid ambiguity. * Refer to these examples as guides. EXAMPLES OF TITLES AND AUTHORS: [single author, no ambiguity about designated speaker or affiliation] AN EXPERIMENTAL MODEL FOR CHEMOTHERAPY ON DORMANT TUBERCULOUS tuberculous /tu·ber·cu·lous/ (too-ber´ku-lus) pertaining to or affected with tuberculosis; caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. tu·ber·cu·lous adj. 1. INFECTION WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO RIFAMPICIN rifampicin /rif·am·pi·cin/ (rif´am-pi-sin) rifampin. rifampin, rifampicin a derivative of rifamycin; an antibacterial and antifungal agent used in the treatment of mycobacterial infections, actinomycosis and histoplasmosis. Joe E. Jones, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 Abstract body starts here ... [two authors, one designated speaker, different affiliations, but no ambiguity] AN EXPERIMENTAL MODEL FOR CHEMOTHERAPY ON DORMANT TUBERCULOUS INFECTION WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO RIFAMPICIN Joe E. Jones and Ralph A. Smith*, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, and University of Mississippi Medical Center University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC) is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). Located in Jackson, Mississippi (USA), it houses the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Health Related Professions, and Graduate Studies in the Health , Jackson, MS 39216 Abstract body starts here ... [two authors, both designated as speakers, different affiliations, but no ambiguity] AN EXPERIMENTAL MODEL FOR CHEMOTHERAPY ON DORMANT TUBERCULOUS INFECTION WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO RIFAMPICIN Joe E. Jones* and Ralph A. Smith*, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, and University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216 Abstract body starts here ... [three authors, one designated speaker, different affiliations] AN EXPERIMENTAL MODEL FOR CHEMOTHERAPY ON DORMANT TUBERCULOUS INFECTION WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO RIFAMPICIN Joe E. Jones (1), Ralph A. Smith (1)*, and Alice D. Doe (2), (1) Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, and (2) University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216 Abstract body starts here ... GUIDELINES FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS * The Academy provides poster backboards. Each backboard back·board n. 1. A board placed under or behind something to provide firmness or support. 2. A board placed beneath the body of a person with an injury to the neck or back, used especially in transporting the person in such a way is 34" high by 5' wide. Mount the poster on the board assigned to you by your Division Chairperson. Please do not draw, write, or use adhesive material on the boards. You must provide your own thumb tacks. * Lettering for your poster title should be at least 1" high and follow the format for your abstract. Lettering for your poster text should be at least 3/8" high. * Posters should be on display during the entire day during which their divisional poster session is scheduled. They must be removed at the end of that day. * Authors must be present with their poster to discuss their work at the time indicated in the program. |
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