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Important!

Please note that the program of events is subject to change. If possible, new information will be added as it is received. Please verify the time of your presentation and note any last minute changes to the schedule when you arrive in Atlanta. The abstracts contained herein have not been edited.

Overview

This website was designed with three goals in mind:

1. To provide a complete listing of the program and abstracts for SICB 2000 in advance of the meeting.
2. To allow more powerful searches for particular terms in talk titles and abstracts than is possible with the traditional keyword index.
3. To provide a pilot site for a possible "electronic-only" abstract listing for future meetings.

We have attempted to make the site easy to navigate, with information organized in an intuitive manner and heavily cross-linked. In addition, we have created a system whereby members can store a "Personal Schedule" (see below) - a listing of presentations and events they have selected while browsing or searching the complete meeting program.

Please email us with comments, criticisms or any problems you encountered at this site.

The following sections provide information specific to the various program and search pages.

Daily Programs

Programs for each each day of the meeting are available at the Program Homepage.

• Some terminology: A "presentation" is a talk or poster with an abstract listing. An "event" is a major address, keynote speech, meeting, workshop or society social.
• The daily programs for oral presentations (talks) are available either sorted by session, or sorted by time through secondary links on each daily program page.
• Since posters are on display for one-and-a-half days, the poster program is the same for Wednesday and Thursday morning, and for Thursday afternoon and Friday.
• Items in the daily programs can be saved into a Personal Schedule by checking the box to the left of the items and pressing the Save Items button.

Searches

The search pages for SICB 2000 should allow you to find any talk, poster or event at the meeting based on specific words or categories. The result(s) of each search can be added to your Personal Schedule for easy retrieval at a later time.

• Some general pointers:
  • Search text can match either partial or whole words - e.g. "fish" will find "fish", "fishes", "killifish", etc.
  • But, note that the entire string entered in a text box is searched for as a whole. Searching for "fish locomotion" is not equivalent to searching for the words "fish" and "locomotion" located separately in the searched field(s).

• Simple searches can be performed using the search functions on the Program Homepage:
  • Search terms entered in multiple text boxes are combined using logical OR statements.
  • Results of searches are sorted by time by default.

• More complex searches for particular terms can be run from the Detailed Presentation Search page.
  • Terms can be entered in either or both text boxes. Empty text boxes or drop-down lists saying "Ignore" are ignored by the search engine.
  • Use the drop-down lists to change the names of the fields searched.
  • The logical operators used in the search are those following an active search term.
  • Results sorted by Time are sorted by both day and time.
  • Search results can be restricted to particular type of items or days using the Limit Search To selections.
  • The Topic or Event Type category can be used to find oral presentations (both contributed and symposium) but not posters, which have only a divisional affiliation.
  • The Divisional Affiliation category can be used to find contributed oral and poster presentations, but not symposium presentations.
  • The Topic or Event Type category can also be used to find special events of different types. Some division-specific events can also be found using the Divisional Affiliation category.
  • If your search is returning no or unexpected results, try activating the Show the resulting search string option to see of your input is creating the expected query.

Personal Schedule

The Personal Schedule is a list of presentations and events you have saved from the daily programs or search results page. There are a few important points to keep in mind when using this feature:

• Every time you press the Save Items button at the bottem of a program or search results page, any checked items will be appended to the list of items in your Personal Schedule.
• The web site keep track of your schedule by passing a list of selected items from page to page as you move through the site. If you use the "Back" button on your browser to return to an earlier page, you may lose previously saved items. If you are creating a Personal Schedule, be sure to use the links available on each page to move to new or previously visited areas of the site.
• For the same reason, your Personal Schedule will be lost if you leave this web site or close your browser and then simply reaccess the site at "http://daphne.bio.uci.edu/". To preserve your list for future viewing and editing, bookmark the site at the end of each browsing session. The bookmark will store the page address including all the items in your list, so reopening the page using the bookmark will also recall all your saved items.
  Note - Almost any page on the site will contain your personal schedule information when bookmarked. The exceptions are the pages presenting the results of searches. If in doubt, make sure you see "myschedule=" somewhere in the address before bookmarking.
• The items in the Personal Schedule can be sorted by time (and day), abstract number, author or title. Simply click the appropriate header.
• A version of the Personal Schedule page formatted for black & white printing is avialable through the Display in Printable Format link.

Detailed information on the workings of the Personal Schedule:

• The items in your personal schedule are tracked by storing a list of the item's ID numbers in a variable called "myschedule". Every time you press Save Items, the IDs of the new items are added to the variable. The variable name and value are dynamically appended to the address associated with each link and thus is passed to the linked page as part of the address. You can see the "myschedule" variable name, followed by a list of any saved items, in the address box of your browser.
• When you bookmark a page on the site, the address information saved by the browser includes the "myschedule" variable. Reopening the page using the bookmark thus returns you to exactly the same state in terms of the IDs stored in the variable, so the Personal Schedule generated will be the same as it was when you last saved the bookmark.
• Why not use "cookies"? Because some users of the web have concerns about letting a server write to their machines, we wanted a method for tracking a list of ID numbers that didn't use this approach.

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