Doing Science: Writing conference abstracts

996 Florida Bay Science Conference Abstracts

Environmental monitoring programs are essential for our understanding and management of ecosystems. Before one can recognize environmental changes, some idea of baseline variability must be established against which to evaluate gross deviations. In addition to temporal changes, it is vitally important to understand spatial patterns of water quality in these systems in an effort to direct manage...

Conference Abstracts

Conference Abstracts

Spike Timing Variability Limits Motion Discrimination Friday 8:30 a.m. Joe Lappin, Duje Tadin, Vanderbilt University, Bart Borghuis, Martin Lankheet, Wim van de Grind, Utrecht University The visible structure of moving stimulus patterns must be fully represented by responses of retinal neurons. (Entropy cannot be reduced by later cortical mechanisms and cognitive processes.) Because motion perc...

Writing good abstracts.

INTRODUCTION Writing an abstract means to extract and summarize (AB - absolutely, STR - straightforward, ACT - actual data presentation and interpretation). Thousands of abstracts are submitted to stroke conferences each year. The following suggestions may improve the chances of your work being selected for presentation, and to communicate results in the most efficient and unambiguous way. TITL...

Scrutinizing and Writing Abstracts

A (On the Translation of Languages from Left to Right) There has been much recent interest in languages whose grammar is sufficiently simple that an efficient left-to-right parsing algorithm can be mechanically produced from the grammar. In this paper, we define LR(k) grammars, which are perhaps the most general ones of this type, and they provide the basis for understanding all of the special ...