this study aimed to investigate the washback effect of three alternative assessment procedures, namely oral-conferences, portfolios, and corpora-based feedback on the writing achievement and attitudes of iranian efl university learners. the participants taking part in the study were 156 native iranian students in a mixed reading-writing course. through the two three-month semesters, the learner...

Objective(s): The aims of this study were to: 1) discover location (by city) of contributors to poster and oral presentations at recent ANZSNM conferences; 2) determine the nuclear medicine themes most commonly explored; 3) establish institutions producing the highest number of oral and poster abstracts and 4) determine publication rates of conference abstracts to full...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence, location, presentation and consistency of conflict of interest statements in oral presentations at medical conferences DESIGN: Prospective, delegate-based observational study SAMPLE: 201 oral presentations at 5 medical conferences in 2016 MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Presence of a conflict of interest statement, its location within the presentation and its duration...

This paper exposes the idea of humour as a strategy for coping with COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. By focusing on Swiss federal council’s media conferences, it aims at evaluating specific linguistic and thematic features which constitute humour. The analysis highlights importance everyday topics dealing coronavirus shows that humorous potentiality press conferences’ oral communications is specified...

Delivering an oral presentation in conferences and meetings can seem daunting. However, if delivered effectively, it can be an invaluable opportunity to showcase your work in front of peers as well as receive feedback on your project. In this "How to" article, we demonstrate how one can plan and successfully deliver an engaging oral presentation.

The poor oral care given to vulnerable patients in long-term care settings can have serious consequences, including increased risk of stroke, heart disease, and pneumonia. Nurses can take action by making sure supplies are in place, promoting oral care to all direct care staff and administrators, and making evidence-based recommendations during resident care conferences.

background national oral health policy was conscripted by the indian dental association (ida) in 1986 and was accepted as an integral part of national health policy (nhp) by the central council of health and family welfare in one of its conferences in the year 1995. objectives of this paper were to find out the efforts made or going on towards its execution, its current status and recent oral h...

Many top CS conferences in Artificial Intelligence assign accepted papers into different presentation types, mainly orals and posters. There is a perception that oral papers are better, however some paper with high influence later were also accepted as poster. To end this discussion, in this paper, we proposed a framework to analysis the influence of presentation type and other factors on acade...

Hot toPICS In numbers, ISWC was a tremendous success. We received 101 submissions— the largest number in the last eight years—making for a selective 23 percent acceptance rate for oral presentations. Furthermore, ISWC was colocated with the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, which merged the UbiComp and Pervasive conferences. (See this issue’s Conferences ...