P3.06-009 Multiple Oral Presentations at Major International Conferences from a Single Clinical Trial Are Common

Effect of Curcumin on Oral Lichen Planus: A Single Blind Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

 Background and purpose: Lichen planus management requires introducing effective local herbal ingredients and cost-effective treatments with fewer side effects compared with corticosteroids. Due to current condition and restrictions in making chemical drugs this study was done to investigate the effect of curcumin on oral lichen planus. Materials and methods: In a randomized controlled clin...

New Feature Parameters for Pronunciation Evaluation in English Presentations at International Conferences

We have previously proposed a statistical method for estimating the pronunciation proficiency and intelligibility of presentations made in English by non-native speakers. To investigate the relationship between various acoustic measures and the pronunciation score and intelligibility, we statistically analyzed the speaker’s actual utterances to find combinations of acoustic features with a high...

What Are the Common Clinical Presentations of Paraneoplastic Syndromes?

Figure 1 Small cell lung cancer reacting to 1 : 500 dilute serum from a patient with ANNA-1 antibody and sensory neuropathy. This shows positive immunoperoxidase stainging of the tumour cells. INTRODUCTION The term paraneoplastic syndrome is now mainly reserved for non-metastatic manifestations of cancer that are considered to have some immunological explanation, i.e. they are not due to vascul...

International conferences: are they any use?

Oral Presentations Oral Presentations

ORAL PRESENTATIONS Discussion: Cross-resistance to different antibacterial agents including quinolones and nalidixic acid, chloramphenicol, trimethoprim and in some cases b-lactam antibiotics is a common phenomenon in Gram-negative bacteria (Gutmann et al., 1995). In this study adaptive resistance in Salmonella enterica and E. coli O157, O55 and K-12 was readily achieved by passage in sublethal...