Abstract Content and Format

Abstracts should be structured and include the following parts:

Introduction - should be informative and short, stating why the study was conducted;

Material & methods - indicating the locale, number and type of human subjects, non-human species or material being studied, the principal procedures, assays, tests or treatments performed;

Results - confirming or refuting the hypothesis, supported by statistics if appropriate;

Conclusions - stating the major new findings of the study and specifying what these findings add to what is known already.

Abbreviations can be used after defining them first.

The use of graphs, tables and images is strongly discouraged.

Abstract title. Do not use capital letters and do not indent. The title should reflect the contents and should be no longer than 50 characters.

List the authors with family name first, followed by initials (i.e. Jones, A.; Sinno, J.; and Mrad, A.;) The name of the first authors is also the presenting author. Do not include professional titles or degrees.

The text must be a maximum of 450 words. The different parts of the abstract - introduction, material and methods, results, conclusions - are to be typed in bold.

Free Communications
Each speaker will be given 10 minutes for presentation followed by 5 minutes for discussion. As the scientific program will be conducted on a very tight time schedule, speakers are asked to strictly adhere to the time given.
All meeting rooms will be equipped with slide projectors for single projection or double projection. Overhead projectors and pointers will be available. Slides must be 50x50 mm with an image window of 24x36 mm in plastic or metal mounts and protected by glass. All slides must bear a serial number and identification of the correct direction of insertion.
Slides must be submitted at least 60 minutes before presentation to the slide desk in the slide preview room.

Poster Presentations
Posters offer an excellent way of presenting detailed scientific data to an interested audience. It is well accepted nowadays that poster presentations in many instances are superior to oral communications at scientific meetings. MEFS has always encouraged this way of communication and urges authors to be available for discussion at their posters as often as possible, but certainly during the daily lunchtime poster viewing. All posters will be on display throughout the meeting in a special poster area.

Instructions for Posters
Poster boards are available for selected posters. Posters should include the title of the presentation, the author's names, the name of the institution (s), the city and the country. Lettering for the title banner should be at least 25 mm in height, and for text at least 10 mm in height. Line printer output or Polaroid size photographs as poster units should not be used. The poster should be readable from a distance of 2 meters.
Poster dimensions are 70 x 100 cms.

Submission Procedure
Abstracts can be submitted by email: abstract@mefs.org or on-line .

Keywords

Authors are requested to mention a minimum of two and a maximum of five keywords.