© 2003 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Poster presentations are used to disseminate new knowledge at scientific conferences and meetings and to provide opportunities for liaison within the scientific community. The factors that influence people’s decisions to visit scientific posters are not well understood. Through a MEDLINE search, we found only 2 studies that addressed poster d...

This collection of essays contributes to the field of hypertext and cyber-culture studies, which has developed in parallel with the Internet and the World Wide Web over the past ten years. Its main purpose is to elaborate and apply to the field a new rhetoric that would be suitable and original. Or, as Espen Aarseth puts it in the introduction to ''Aporia and Epiphany in Doom and the Speaking C...

Poster presentations given at scientific meetings are widely used in medicine, nursing, and allied health professions to communicate research findings. A good poster presentation can be an effective way to share the results of your research with your peers, in a collegial and non-threatening atmosphere. Feedback received during a poster session can be invaluable in refining your research and pr...

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Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s National Clinical & Research Conference December 1–3, 2011 Hollywood, Florida S1 Oral Abstracts—Clinical S4 Oral Abstracts—Pediatrics S6 Oral Abstracts—Nursing S7 Oral Abstracts—Basic Science S12 Poster Presentations—Clinical S54 Poster Presentations—Pediatrics S63 Poster Presentations—Nursing S64 Poster Presentations—Basic Science S88 Author Index Volume 17 Numbe...

Both personal digital assistants (PDAs) and tablet computers have emerged to facilitate data collection at the point of care. However, little research has been reported comparing these mobile computing devices in specific care settings. In this study we present an approach for comparing functionally identical applications on a Palm operating system-based PDA and a Windows-based tablet computer ...

Much research has been performed investigating how links between web pages can be exploited in an Information Retrieval setting [1, 4]. In this poster, we investigate the application of the Barabási-Albert model to link structure analysis on a collection of web documents within the language modeling framework. Our model utilizes the web structure as described by a Scale Free Network and derives...