Results of the RMBS Contest 2018

Students Contest

Two students elicited NOT to participate in the contest. However, their written paper was scored as well as part of the peer-review process for the Biomedical Sciences instrumentation journal.

For the written competition, 39 papers were reviewed as part of the paper acceptance process: each paper was reviewed on average by four judges, with a minimum of two and a maximum of six. 66 judges expressed their preferences in the written competition and they reviewed on average three papers, with a minimum of one and a maximum of six papers. The written scores were normalized for each judge and the total score for each paper was the average of the normalized scores. Four students submitted two papers.

At the symposium, 20 presentations and 17 posters were judged (five students were not present to discuss their posters, but somebody else did it in their place). Two students presented two papers each. One student submitted a written paper but did not come to the conference so its paper was not in the program of the symposium. Another student was in the schedule but did not attend.

Eleven judges expressed their preferences in the presentation competition. Not all students were evaluated by the same judges and not all of them received the same number of votes, but each presentation was judged by at least eight judges. The scores were again normalized for each judge and the total score for each presentation was the average of the normalized scores.

Four judges expressed their preferences in the poster competition. Not all the judges were able to talk to all the students because they were not present at their poster during the entire duration of the assigned poster session. For the ones that were judged, as for the presentations, the scores were normalized for each judge and the total score for each poster was the average of the normalized scores.

For the special awards, four judges were involved. Each judge subjectively selected and ranked up to five students as the possible winners of their special award.