Call for Papers

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The congress includes keynote address and plenary lectures, and oral/poster presentations. The focal and special themes will have only invited presentations and panel discussion by experts. Papers can be submitted for special session and for other themes. Oral presentations of contributed papers are limited to 15 minutes including discussion.

Though the presenters can opt for oral and poster presentations and the theme, the review committee will decide the mode and theme of presentation The abstract(s) should be based an suggestions by expert committees submitted for both oral and poster forms of presentations. The number of abstract per author is limited to one in each theme.

All meeting rooms are equipped with LCD projectors and Windows-based PCs. Presentations can be saved on a CD-ROM disk or a USB memory stick. Please test your presentation and bring a backup. Presenters must use the host computers for PowerPoint presentations.

Abstract

The abstract(s) should not have more than 500 words and should be sent by e mail or CD on or before 1 November, 20 November 2010. The following information may kindly be noted while preparing the abstract:

The title of the paper centered with bold capital letters (14 font Times New Roman)

Name of the author(s) centered in bold (12 font Times New Roman)

Address(es) of the author(s) with pincode, phone and fax numbers and e mail. The name of the corresponding and presenting authors should be specifically mentioned (12 font Times New Roman- normal)

A 500 word abstract must contain precise information including brief introduction, methodology, highlights of results and conclusion. (12 font Times New Roman- normal, justified)

At least one author should register by paying the required registration fee. There will not be any on-spot registration for presentation.

Poster Presentations

Posters must be in portrait, DIN A0 format (84 cm wide x 119 cm high).

  • Include the title and authors of the poster as listed in your abstract.
  • Information on the poster should flow from left to right and from top to bottom
  • Keep your poster simple – avoid too much information, stick to two or three main points
  • Double-space all text, using left justification.
  • Use short sentences, simple words and bullets
  • All information should be large enough to be read easily from at least one metre distance, suggested text size is at least 24 point; author(s) and affiliation(s) should be at least 42 point; subheadings should be at least 60 point.
  • Self-explanatory graphics should dominate the poster; keep captions brief

Submission of Full Text Paper

The completed camera-ready paper should be received not later than 1st December 15 December, 2010. This should include a cover page containing title, authors, address, affiliation, e-mail address, phone number, fax number and topic area of the paper. The second page should start with paper title, authors, abstract, keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion including conclusions and references. Paper to be submitted must be on A4 (8.25″ x 10.75″), using Time New Roman 12 point. The paper must not exceed 10 pages excluding references. The photographs and graphs should be of higher resolution (min. 300 dpi) for printing and separate JPEG/TIFF images should be supplied. One hard copy and soft copy in CD should be submitted. The information for the authors will be communicated to those selected for oral presentations.

Proceedings

We are planning to publish proceeding volumes of the conference and special sessions and of specialised symposia and workshops, preferably in special issues of peer-reviewed journals. The organisers are in the process of negotiating with publishers.

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