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10th
International Symposium on Maritime Health
Goa,
India - September 23-26, 2009
CALL
FOR PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS ETC.
Dear Sirs,
The 10th International Symposium in Maritime Health (ISMH 10)
is to be held in Goa, India from the 23rd to the 26th September,
2009. The Scientific Secretariat is pleased to send out the
first call for papers, presentations, abstracts, posters etc.
The topic for this Symposium is ‘Quality Maritime Health
And Seafarers Welfare’. Please read the below instructions
for authors and comply. If there are any queries from your side,
you can reach out to us at chairman@ismh10.com
with a copy to sureshidnani@hotmail.com
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Abstracts will be accepted until 31st December 2008. Please
follow these instructions carefully. Abstracts that do not conform
to the required format will be returned for reformatting. All
subjects should be linked as far as possible, to the headline
for the symposium i.e. ‘Quality Maritime Health And Seafarers
Welfare’. All accepted abstracts will be printed in a
brochure and distributed during the symposium. All presented
Full papers will be produced in the CD format and distributed
to all attendees within six months of the symposium.
PAGE SIZE: It is important that you set the
page size to A4. NOT letter or Custom.
FORMAT AND SIZE: The dimensions of the abstract
must fit within the template, should not exceed 17 cm wide x
12 cm deep, including the title, authors, and institutional
addresses. The font to be used throughout is 11 point Times
New Roman. The language should be in English.
Please download the abstract
template and abstract sample
here for guidance in the preparation of your abstract.
Please type the following inside the template box.
TITLE: The title should be typed in bold, upper
case. Do not include a blank line after the title.
AUTHORS' NAME: The authors' names should be
typed in lower case. The format for the authors' name is initials
(no full stops) (space) surname (comma). The presenting author's
name should be underlined.
INSTITUTIONS: The Institutions should be typed
in lower case not justified. If there is more than one institution,
use superscript numbers to link authors to their institution.
Each institution is described by the name of the institution,
the city, state and country. Do not include the street address
or postcode. Semicolons should separate institutions. Each institution
on a new line.
ABSTRACT TEXT: The abstract text should not
exceed 300 words. Use the headings: Introduction:, Methods:,
Results: and Conclusions: typed in bold (including the colon).
If the text will not fit within the specified size, edit to
fit; do not use a font less than 11 point. Traditionally a large
part of the contributions of the maritime health symposia have
been "programmes" evaluations etc that are not communications
from original research. Abstract for presentations without any
specified methods and results included, can omit these two headings,
but Introduction and Conclusions should always be included.
Please type the following outside the template box for all contributions:
TYPE
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION BELOW THE ABSTRACT:
1. TOPIC: Please select and type ONE of the
following topics that best represents the area of your abstract
(the word seafarer is here used synonymously for all maritime
work types as fishermen, divers, offshore etc.)
TOPIC
1 Health examinations on seafarers
2 Social protection and welfare service
3 Ethics
4 Training and education for seafarers
5 International regulations for health and safety
6 History of maritime health and safety
7 Injury analysis and prevention – fatal and non-fatal
8 Ships safety analysis and interventions
9 Health and safety promotion
10 Exposure analysis
11 Vulnerable groups, e.g. women's health and safety
12 Work organisational and psychosocial factors including fatigue
and sleep
13 Abuse in seafaring of alcohol, drugs or other types of abuse
14 Disease and injury surveillance
15 The health service and medical treatment on board
16 Telemedicine
17 Ships Medical chest
18 Cruise ships medicine
19 Occupational health service
20 HIV in the work place
21 Infections among seafarers, included sexual transmitted,
other than HIV
22 Vaccination
23 Mortality studies and prevention
24 Morbidity studies and prevention
25 Ship motion and seasickness
26 Search and rescue
27 Port health and safety
28 Other topics in maritime health and safety specify...
29 Stress in Seafarer’s and Dealing with stress
30 O T C Medication on Board
2. ABSTRACT AREA: please select and type ONE
of the following
A Seafaring
B Fishing
C Off-shore
D Diving
E Port workers
F Unspecific maritime workers of all different types
3. KEYWORDS: please give 3-5 keywords for the
abstract.
4.
CONTACT DETAILS FOR SUBMITTING AUTHOR: Please type
the name of the submitting author, postal address, telephone,
fax and email address.
5. PREFERRED PRESENTATION MODE: In the space
under the contact details, please indicate the preferred mode
of presentation using "Oral", "Poster" or
"either Oral or Poster". Please note that final assignment
of oral or poster presentation will be at the discretion of
the organizers. There will be offered a prize to the best presented
poster at the symposium.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Abstracts should be submitted
as Microsoft Word for Windows documents with a ".doc"
extension. If this is not possible, save as a Rich Text File
(.rtf). The abstract should be saved with the filename "10ISMH-author
surname". If there is more than one abstract from the same
author, please number them consecutively: "10ISMH-author
surname_1” and "10ISMH-author surname_2” etc.
Abstracts should be submitted as an attachment to scientificsecreteriat@ismh10.com
with a cc to chairman@ismh10.com.
The subject line of the email MUST be "10ISMHAbstract -
author surname". Abstracts will not be accepted by fax
or on floppy disc. The deadline for receipts of abstracts is
31st December 2008. The presenting author will be sent an email
advising the receipt of the abstract. If such advice is not
received within 10 working days, the presenting author should
contact the conference organizer at: to ensure that it has not
gone missing. The secretariat will assign your abstract
with a number, which should be used for any correspondence
relating to your abstract. You will get the abstract number
soon after you have sent your abstract. This abstract number
should also be assigned to the power point presentations; you
either will send one beforehand (see below) or handed to the
congress secretariat when you arrive.
ACCEPTANCE TIMETABLE: Deadline for Abstracts is 31
December 2008. Participants will be notified whether their abstract
has been accepted by 28 February 2009. The presenting author
must register for the conference by 31 March 2009 for the accepted
abstracts to be included in the final programme. (Notice that
the early registration is on or before 31st March 2009)
ABSTRACT PUBLICATION: The organizing committee
is planning to have the abstracts published in a book together
with the programme to be delivered to the participants at the
beginning of the symposium.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTATIONS
Instructions for Presenters and Posters:
Oral Presenters: Presenters must use PowerPoint
(any version is satisfactory)
• Naming your presentation - Files must be named as "10
ISMH-author surname" if you have more than one presentation,
give them consecutive numbers.
• Presenters can e-mail their presentation to dridnani@gmail.com
with copy to sureshidnani@hotmail.com
. Email your presentation (power point presentation and full
text) Otherwise, please bring your presentation on 3.5' floppy
diskette, memory stick or CD that has been formatted for PC
readability.
• Please bring a back-up copy with you to the conference.
• You will not be permitted to use your own computer!
To avoid problems with the connections of different laptops
and projectors, computer files of all presentations will be
copied onto a single computer before your session.
• Hand your presentation in to the presenter's room at
least one session before your presentation session. When you
arrive at the room where your presentation will occur, your
presentation file will already be loaded on the computer.
• Keynote presentations will be of 30 minutes duration
(this will include a minimum of 2 minutes for questions).
• Oral session presentations will be 20 minutes (which
should include 2 to 5 minutes question time).
• Work-shop presentations are generally 20 minutes, but
some are longer. Check the program to confirm length of your
talk.
• Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the start of
the session and meet the chairperson of the session.
Generally, there should not be more slides than speaking time
in minutes. For individual slide formats, please follow this
simple rule: maximum of seven lines with six words maximum per
line on any one slide. Avoid presenting large tables or more
than one graph per slide.
For a normal presentation, a font size of 24 is sufficient in
order to be readable from the back of the room. To determine
legibility: With a 17-inch screen, stand about 2 meters away.
If you can see your presentation clearly at 100%, slide and
text, then there shouldn't be a problem in seeing this presentation
in a lecture room. Rather than using bold to make text clearer,
increase the size of your text from 24 point to 28 point. The
contrast between the color of the letters and the background
should be maximized. The use of green and red letters is not
advisable.
Poster presentations: Posters are not to be
larger than 0.9 x 1.5 meters and should be installed on display
boards by the author(s) at your numbered position in the poster
room, before 12.00 noon on 23rd September 2009. Please make
sure that the size of typeface is large enough to be legible
from a distance of 1.5 meters. Posters are to remain posted
until 2.00 pm on 26th September 2009. You will be required to
stand next to your poster on the day allocated, between 2 and
3 pm.
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