s of the 1st Congress of the International Academy of Digital Pathology: Poster Session 199 Medical School Pathology education supplemented with web-based virtual microscopy Rajyasree Emmadi, Amy Y. Lin, and Andy V. Pham Department of Pathology, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), IL, USA Background: The year 2 Medical student Pathology practicum at UIC, designated Small Group Discussion (...

Background: Polyvalent vaccination represents a recent attempt to improve the effectiveness of lung cancer immunotherapy. This study aimed to investigate whether a gene expression pattern of tumor-associated antigens (TAA) would exist indicating that their use will be most appropriate for the polyvalent vaccination of Caucasian non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) patients. We examined the con...

OBJECTIVE To implement and assess a required public health poster project in a doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) program. DESIGN Third-year PharmD students collaborated in pairs to research a public health topic relating to pharmacy practice. Each student group prepared an informational poster, while receiving feedback from a faculty mentor at each stage of the project. The students presented their...

Researchers summarize and represent their paper content with scientific posters, which efficiently convey their ideas. Generating a good scientific poster, however, is challenging for novel researchers, since it needs to be readable, informative, and aesthetic. This paper for the first time studies the challenging problem of learning to generate posters from scientific papers. To this end, a da...

Conversations in poster sessions in academic events, referred to as poster conversations, pose interesting and challenging topics on multi-modal analysis of multi-party dialogue. This article gives an overview of our project on multi-modal sensing, analysis and “understanding” of poster conversations. We focus on the audience’s feedback behaviors such as non-lexical backchannels (reactive token...

BACKGROUND: In the era of novel antiviral drugs for treatment of chronic viral hepatitis C (HCV), the diagnosis of liver cirrhosis guides both the choice of the drug regimen, duration of treatment and subsequent follow up. Transient elastography (TE) (fibroscan) is a recent, non invasive and reliable method for the diagnosis of cirrhosis in patients with chronic HCV. We aimed at demonstrating t...

M. Jongmans, P. Hoogerbrugge, L. Hilkens, U. Flucke, I. van der Burgt, K. Noordam, M. Ruiterkam-Versteeg, H. Yntema, W. Nillesen, M. Ligtenberg, A. Geurts-van Kessel, R. Kuiper, N. Hoogerbrugge 1 Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Human Genetics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Paediatric Oncology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 3 Radboud University N...

P144 Influence of diet on oocyst output and intestinal lesion development in Coccivac®-D vaccinated replacement broiler breeders reared on new and used litter. L. A. Oden*1, D. J. Caldwell1, S. K. Pohl1, A. E. Klein1, S. Young2, C. Broussard3, S. Fitz-Coy3, L. Newmann3, and J. T. Lee1, 1Department of Poultry Science, Agrilife Research, Texas A&M System, College Station, 2Pilgrim’s Pride Corpora...

introduction: diarrheal diseases are a serious health problem and important causes of growth retardation and death in the developing world, especially those of prolonged duration. since diarrhea is constantly found in children with zinc deficiency, very studies supported zinc supplements beneficial on the duration and severity of diarrhea among children. we review the impact of zinc effects on ...