1. novel award (www.novel.de)



The novel 2008 award, with a prize of 5,000 Euro, will
be presented for the best scientific manuscript in the field
of dynamic pressure distribution analysis. The paper must be
entirely original, not published at the time of the meeting in
any journal nor submitted for publication to any journal or
book. The paper must describe a scientific study including
pressure distribution measurement. Deadline for submission
of abstracts is March 31, 2008. Six of these abstracts will be
nominated for the novel award by May 1, 2008.

The nominated authors will be requested to send a full length (25
pages maximum, double spaced) paper by June 15, 2008 and will
present the paper at the meeting in an approx. 30 minute talk. The review of the papers will be conducted by a prominent panel of experts. The novel award will be presented to the winner at the banquet. The general abstract instruction to authors can be found in the “Authors” section at www.elsevier.com/locate/clinbiomech.



2. Poster and Presentation awards

Abstracts for poster and presentation awards in the field of
pressure distribution measurements not participating in
the novel award must be submitted by March. 31, 2008.
Participants will be informed of acceptance of presentations
by May 1, 2008. Awards for the Best Poster and Best
Presentation will also be presented. Each award will be
to the value of 500 Euro.

Size of posters
The poster should be in A0 (841 x 1189 mm) format with the text not smaller than font size 32.

The title and authors with affiliations should be clearly shown.

The poster should then be broadly divided into the sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions.


Important date

March 31, 2008	all abstracts due
May 1, 2008	selected abstracts notified
June 15, 2008	Deadline for full length paper from accepted novel award participants
July 28 - July 31, 2008	emed scientific meeting 2008 - Dynamic Load Distribution in Biomechanics -

3. Guidelines

Please download the following guidelines for your abstracts.

• Guidelines for authors (by Elsevier, Clinical Biomechanics)

• Guidelines for Abstracts (English)

• Guidelines for Abstracts (German)

• Size of the posters for novel Poster awards