Oral Communications Research Articles

Abstracts of the “GIORNATE DI CONIGLICOLTURA ASIC 2013”

Onthe 10 and 11 of April, in Forlì (Italy) it was held the 5th edition of the Italian Rabbit Days, product of the collaboration among ASIC (Italian Rabbit Scientific Association), ASPA (Animal Production Scientific Association) and the Forlì Fair. The 1st day included a round table focused on “Which future for italian rabbit faming?”. During the 2nd day, there were presented 2 main lectures “Resources allocation in reproductive rabbit does: genetic strategies for a suitable performance”, by Pascual J.J., Savietto D., Cervera C., Baselga M. and “Controlling the rabbit digestive ecosystem to improve digestive health and efficacy”, by Combes S., Fortun-Lamothe L, Cauquil L., Gidenne T. which were previously presented at the last World Rabbit Congress. Moreover, 2 sessions of oral communications on Pathology and Zootechnics were held. Finally a Poster Session was through the 2 days. The meeting was attended by more than 80 participants, including researchers from France, Spain, and Hungary. A total of 2 main lectures, 10 oral communications and 6 posters were presented during the congress. Following are reported the abstracts of all contributions presented.

National Security Council: Simulating Decision-making Dilemmas in Real Time

National Security Council is a real-time, semester-long simulation of the senior advisory group to the US President on national security and foreign policy. The simulation requires undergraduate students to role-play policymakers charged with long-range security planning and responding to actual events and crises as they happen. Students are encouraged to exercise their own judgment, but must operate within the political, bureaucratic, and organizational confines of the office (for example, Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, etc.). Students conduct briefings, develop initiatives, and debate policy positions and proposals. Weekly meetings are supplemented with occasional special sessions to deal with real-world developments (for example, Arab Spring protests, military crisis with North Korea, major humanitarian emergency). The simulation course promotes accountability, independent and team learning, and oral communications skills, and forces students to grapple with bureaucratic turf battles, time pressure, and rapidly changing real-world situations. Several iterations between 2007 and 2012 yield insights into best practices for pedagogy and assessment, but also raise questions about the appropriate roles of technology, social networking, and the Internet.

3. Oral Communications

3. Oral Communications

A Comparative Analysis between Direct and Indirect Measurement of Year I Integrated Project

The Integrated Project (IP) has been practised in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering (JKKP) since the 2006/2007 session. Initially, the IP is only implemented for the Year II students for both Chemical (KK) and Biochemical Engineering (KB) programmes. Previously, the Year 1 curriculum was only based on the common faculty courses. Starting in the 2010/2011 session, a new curriculum was introduced for Year I with some reshuffling of the courses offered, in which the programme syllabuses are tailored to the offered departmental offerings starting in Year I. Based on the new curriculum, the students registered under the KK and KB programmes have undergone the IP since Semester I of their first-year studies. This implementation project encourages and gives the opportunity to students to take part in the open-ended problem-solving project. The students are trained to obtain information independently through lifelong learning, communication skills in terms of written and oral communications and identify the current issues and involve team work. The training can reduce the phenomenon of student dependence on lecturers or “spoon-feeding” to obtain information in order to understand a theory of learning. The exposure could also transform the learning scenario from lecture-centred to student-centred learning, which requires students to participate more actively in the learning process. The student achievement of the programme outcomes (POs), which has been set in terms of lecturer assessment (direct measurement) and student perception through questionnaires (indirect measurement), was compared at the end of the implementation of the IP in Semester II of the 2011/2012 session. From the comparison, it was found that both measurement methods gave very similar results for all the outlined POs with insignificant differences detected between the POs. This proves that the students gain benefits through the implementation of the IP which are in line with the lecturers’ expectations.

Oral communications

Oral communications

CFTC approves final rule requiring recording of oral communications

PurposeThis paper aims to address amendments to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recordkeeping rules that will require certain market participants to maintain records of all oral communications leading to the execution of a “commodity interest” transaction that are communicated by telephone, voicemail or mobile device. The paper also seeks to address the CFTC's revised rules expanding the current recordkeeping requirements to include written communications related to swap transactions.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reviews the revised rules, adopting release and industry commentary and explains how the requirements of CFTC Regulations 1.31 and 1.35 will be applied to futures commission merchants (FCMs), certain introducing brokers (IBs), certain members of a designated contract market (DCM) or swap execution facility (SEF), and retail forex dealers (RFEDs).FindingsFCMs, certain IBs, certain members of a DCM or SEF, and RFEDs must comply with the oral communications recordkeeping requirements no later than December 21, 2013. FCMs, IBs, all members of a DCM or SEF, and RFEDs must comply with the CFTC's revised recordkeeping rules for written communications no later than February 19, 2013.Practical implicationsAll FCMs, IBs, members of a DCM or SEF, and RFEDs impacted by the rule should prepare to maintain records of all covered written and oral communications. If it is technologically or economically impractical for a market participant to comply with the requirement to record all oral communications that lead to a commodity interest transaction by the compliance date, the participant should request an alternative compliance schedule.Originality/valueThis paper provides practical guidance from experienced financial services lawyers.

Les conflits d’intérêt dans les communications de pharmacie hospitalière en France : la route est encore longue

Since 1995, disclosure of conflicts of interest in international scientific publications became systematic, but, in France, there is yet no obligation to mention them in oral communications or posters of pharmacy. To assess the rate of posters in hospital pharmacy meetings which mention potential conflicts of interest. A prospective study. All abstracts presented in printed poster format were evaluated during three hospital pharmacy meetings organized in France between November 2011 and March 2012 for the presence of the conflicts of interest disclosure, even if there were no conflicts of interest. The main outcome was the rate of posters with mentions of potential conflicts of interest. A subgroup analysis was conducted about geographic origin of authors. On 294 announced posters, 263 were displayed, 252 did not mention any conflict of interest, 11 mentioned the possibility or not of conflict of interest (4.2%): the rate ranged from 1.1 to 25% according to the meeting. Posters from France disclosed less often conflicts of interest (<2%) than foreign ones (>40%). The rate of spontaneous disclosure of conflicts of interest is very low within French pharmacists. The instructions given by French meeting organizers should be more directive on the matter.

Abstracts of the "XXXVII Symposium de Cunicultura de ASESCU". Barbastro (Spain) 24-25th of May 2012.

The annual Congress of the Spanish Association of Cuniculture (ASESCU) was held in Barbastro (province of Huesca, autonomous community of Aragón) on 24-25th May of 2012. The 37th edition was mainly devoted to analyse the present situation of the rabbit sector, as well as some new aspects in relation to diseases of the rabbit. It was presented an overview of the situation of the rabbit farming in Aragón, a commercial analysis of the rabbit farming sector in Spain, a main paper on the role of rural development as a complement to rabbit farming, and an analysis of the production cost of rabbit meat. Main papers related to parasite control and mixomatosis were also presented in 2 different conferences. Moreover 2 round tables were held on a new variant of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus and a Sectorial Plan for the Spanish rabbit sector, respectively. Furthermore, a total of 18 communications were presented both in working sessions of oral communications and posters. Nutrition session analysed the influence of fibre type on its digestibility, the characterisation of intestinal microbiota in rabbits after weaning, the utilisation of distillers dried grains with solubles as well as of beet pulp in diets for fattening rabbits, the effect of dietary restrictions on the growth of fattening rabbits, and the effect of a prebiotic, a probiotic or a symbiotic in diets for fattening rabbits. Technico-economic management session studied the evolution of technical results of the Spanish farms during 2008-2011, as well as technical and economical implications of reproductive rhythms and weaning age for the profitability of farms. Genetics session evaluated the effect of divergent selection for residual variance of litter size on the embryo development. Ethology session analysed sex influence in rabbit mutual olfactory relationships. Reproduction session studied prediction of body fat deposits from perirenal fat measurements using ultrasound. Meat quality session analysed the effect of a supplementation with vegetable DHA on the growing and fattening performances and meat quality of the rabbit. Pathology section studied the effect of selection for reproduction or longevity on blood lymphocyte populations of does under conventional and heat stress conditions, the origin of staphylococcosis in rabbits, the epidemiology of staphylococcosis, pasteurellosis and bordetellosis in Portugal, and several works related to a new variant of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus.

Oral Communications

Oral Communications

News from the 41st European Symposium on Clinical Pharmacy, 28–31 October 2012, Barcelona

‘Personalized and Safe Therapy’ was the title of the 41st European Society of Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP) Symposium on Clinical Pharmacy, held on 28–31 October 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. The symposium was attended by ≈700 participants, featured numerous lectures and workshops, and included the presentation of >400 posters and oral communications. This report highlights information from selected plenary lectures that discussed methods of performing clinical pharmacy with the goal of ensuring that the individual patient receives the best possible therapy and health outcomes.

Performance Evaluation for Pull-Type Supply Chains Using an Agent-Based Approach

The business world changes rapidly and customers’ demands are more varied than before, traditional push system which takes actions based on anticipated requirements and uses forecast to determine the manufacturing quantity is no longer effective enough for modeling market volatility. Therefore, the pull strategy, which is demand oriented, flexible and generates cost savings, is becoming more popular and prominent. The pull type supply chain management is also applied broadly in the high-tech industry where the market volatility is a very unique characteristic. In SCM, nonstructured oral communications make information sharing difficult and inefficient in a distributed environment. To solve this problem, Agent Technology (AT) is applied. AT in Business Intelligence (BI) has been proven that it is good tool in solving communication problems in distributed environments. This research focuses on the application of the make-to-plan (MTP) supply chain strategy and AT based technique. A case study of simulation of the MTP-based pull type supply chain is presented. Impacts of operator parameters, e.g., manufacturing throughput, forecast accuracy, and inventory on performance of the pull type control strategies are discussed in this study.

Preface

The XXIVth IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry was held in the old university city of Coimbra, Portugal from 15 to 20 July 2012, and welcomed 640 participants from 53 countries presenting their research on this important area of chemistry. This series of meetings started in Strasbourg in July 1964 as the International Symposium on Organic Photochemistry, organized by George Hammond and J. Levisalles. Subsequent symposia have seen the meeting expand to embrace all areas of photochemistry. The program topics of the Coimbra symposium ranged from materials aspects of photochemistry through nanostructures and nanomaterials to mechanistic and synthetic aspects of organic photochemistry, photobiology, photomedicine and skin photochemistry, applied photochemistry, and photochemistry and cultural heritage.The symposium had 8 plenary lectures, 22 invited lectures, 105 oral communications, and more than 400 posters, confirming the vitality of this area of chemistry. It is difficult to pinpoint specific highlights, as these depend very much on one's personal interests, but one of the most important presentations was undoubtedly Tom Meyer's Porter Medal Lecture on metal-to-ligand charge-transfer states in polypyridylruthenium(II) complexes and related systems. An IUPAC Photochemistry Symposium was previously held in Portugal, in Lisbon, in 1986, and it is interesting to note that Prof. Meyer also gave a plenary lecture there addressing some of the fundamental photophysics of these systems [Pure Appl. Chem.58, 1193 (1986)]. It is refreshing to see how these have developed from pure science to practical applications.George Porter gave a plenary lecture at the Lisbon symposium in 1986 on the first nanoseconds of photosynthesis. Developments in instrumentation in the intervening 26 years now make interrogation of excited-state behavior on the femtosecond timescale relatively straightforward, and as various presentations in this volume and in the symposium demonstrate, are helping unravel the importance of early events in many photochemical and photobiological processes.In addition to the lectures and poster presentations, the program also included a number of awards for young photochemists and posters, and a variety of social activities, including canoeing on the local River Mondego.We believe that the scientific program has maintained the excellent tradition of the IUPAC Photochemistry Symposia in showing that this continues to be a vibrant, exciting interdisciplinary area of research. This issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry contains a number of the plenary and invited lectures from the symposium, which we feel mirror the current state of the art of photochemistry as a dynamic and important field of chemistry.Hugh D. BurrowsJ. Sérgio Seixas de MeloArtur J. M. ValenteConference Editors

Oral Communications

Oral Communications

XXXth IUGB Congress and Perdix XIII

XXXth IUGB Congress and Perdix XIII

Wildlife law and policy

Wildlife law and policy

γδ T‐cell conference 2012: Close encounters for the fifth time

The fifth international γδ T-cell conference was held in Freiburg, Germany, from May 31 to June 2, 2012, bringing together approximately 170 investigators from all over the world. The scientific program covered topics such as thymic development and the mechanisms of ligand recognition and activation, the interaction of γδ T cells with other immune and non-immune cells and its implications for homeostasis, infection, tissue repair and autoimmunity, and the role of γδ T cells in malignancy and their potential for novel immunotherapies. Here we discuss a selection of the oral communications at the conference, and summarise exciting new findings in the field regarding the development, mode of antigen recognition, and responses to microorganisms, viruses and tumours by human and mouse γδ T cells.

How Bugs Kill Bugs: Progress and Challenges in Bacteriocin Research

A Biochemical Society Focused Meeting on bacteriocins was held at the University of Nottingham on 16-18 July 2012 to mark the retirement of Professor Richard James and honour a scientific career of more than 30 years devoted to an understanding of the biology of colicins, bacteriocins produced by Escherichia coli. This meeting was the third leg of a triumvirate of symposia that included meetings at the Île de Bendor, France, in 1991 and the University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K., in 1998, focused on bringing together leading experts in basic and applied bacteriocin research. The symposium which attracted 70 attendees consisted of 18 invited speakers and 22 selected oral communications spread over four themes: (i) Role of bacteriocins in bacterial ecology, (ii) Mode of action of bacteriocins, (ii) Mechanisms of bacteriocin import across the cell envelope, and (iv) Biotechnological and biomedical applications of bacteriocins. Speakers and poster presenters travelled from around the world, including the U.S.A., Japan, Asia and Europe, to showcase the latest developments in their scientific research.

Oral Research Communications of the 22nd ECVIM‐CA Congress

Oral Research Communications of the 22^nd ECVIM‐CA Congress

Literacy Learning Within Community Action Projects for Social Change

AbstractThis case study describes the literacy development of a struggling reader over a seven‐month period as he engaged in a youth‐led participatory action research (PAR) project. The project's goal was for youth participants to develop a proposal for productive change in their local community and present it to community stakeholders. The study focused on ways the participants were supported in gaining skills in research, writing and oral communications. The study examines the process through which literacy skills improved for the youngest participant for whom the academic aspects of this project were extremely challenging. It describes curricular and pedagogical approaches during the process that led to his academic literacy improvements. Findings indicate the key components that increased this participant's literacy development were the caring, supportive environment that was established, an assets‐based approach and apprenticeship model as well as connections of the research project to real world purposes.

ABSTRACTS OF THE “GIORNATE DI CONIGLICOLTURA ASIC 2011”

The fourth edition of the Italian Rabbit Days was held in Forlì (Italy) on April 8-9, 2011, organized by ASIC (Italian Rabbit Scientific Association) in collaboration with Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti (Università di Bologna), Dipartimento di Scienze Animali (Università di Padova), Fondazione Iniziative Zooprofilattiche e Zootecniche (Brescia), ASPA (Animal Production Scientific Association) and the Forli Fair.The first day included three invited lectures: “Feed restriction strategies, implications on physiology, growth and health of the growing rabbit”, presented by T. Gidenne, L. Fortun-Lamothe, S. Combes; “Ovulation induction in rabbit does: a review”, presented by A. Dal Bosco; “Factors affecting efficacy of intravaginal administration of GnRH analogues for ovulation induction in rabbit does” presented by P.G. Rebollar. In addition, three sessions of oral communications on Reproduction and Genetics, Nutrition and Physiology, Welfare, Management, and Pathology were held.During the second day it was presented a round table focused on “Management and use of drugs and vaccines in rabbit production”. Finally a Poster Session was through the two days.The meeting was attended by more than 100 participants, including researchers and technicians from France, Spain, Hungary, Belgium and Switzerland. A total of 3 invited papers, 14 oral communications and 16 posters were presented during the congress. Following the abstracts of all contributions are reported.