Prepare the Presentation

Break the speaking project into three parts Prepare, present, and follow-up. The first part requires, by far, the most effort. However, all three parts require careful attention if you want to use speaking to make things happen. The following discussion addresses each of the three parts. 

Review the earlier writing sections of this chapter titled Define the Purpose and Profile the Audience. The same principles apply, supplemented with some additional thoughts about the audience. You might ask for names of likely participants. You may know some of them and that can help you shape your message. For example, you are a consultant and will speak to the local Kiwanis club. You learn that Mayor Susan Jones will be in the audience. As a result, you include in your presentation a comment about your firm s award-winning municipal projects. 

As with a written document, especially a major document, your audience may consist of many audiences. However, unlike a document that can be written at various levels and divided into different sections so the readers can choose which portions they want to read, you must make the entire oral presentation to the entire audience. This is a major challenge. Try to have something to say to each audience segment. 

If you are one of a group of speakers, find out as much as you can about the other speakers, such as their topics and the chronology of the presentations. Also, determine the total time allotted for your presentation and post-presentation questions and discussion and respect those limits. Determine if you will be permitted to entertain the questions immediately after your presentation or if all questions will be deferred until all speakers have completed their formal remarks. 

Weeks before a presentation to structural engineers, I asked the session organizer to help me profile the audience. He provided this description The audience will be about five percent students, 40 percent owners, 50 percent designers and five percent other, including architects. We are guessing that the audience will be about 50/50 for public and private work. That was very helpful A very diverse audience. I needed to speak to all audience segments. 

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Once you have a feel for the flow of a presentation, you are in a position to prepare the presentation copy and to actually produce the slide file. We consider both of these topics after first considering the somewhat peculiar language of transparency copy. 

After this manuscript had been prepared the present author became aware of the fact that also Murai, Mori and Mikami (45) have carried out flow birefringence measurements in a slit. 

In preparing the present account, we have been impressed by how much the field has changed since Pitzer s review and a similar review published by us in 1995 [5]. Therefore, a comprehensive account of the present status of the field seems timely. Thus, we presume that the reader is aware of the fundamentals of critical phenomena, as described in many reviews [6-8] and monographs [9-12]. Earlier reviews of one or another aspect of ionic criticality by Pitzer [4,13], Levelt Sengers and Given [14], Fisher [15,16], Stell [17,18], and ourselves [5] are notable. 

David R. Rea of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company prepared the presentation summaries of Richard M. Gross, Allen Clamen, Elsa Reichmanis, and Lawrence H. Dubois. The summaries for the presentation of Mary L. Good, James R. Heath, Francis A. Via, and Kenneth A. Pickar were prepared by Ned D. Heindel. Andrew Kaldor wrote the summaries of the presentations by Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Michael Schrage, and Richard K. Koehn. 

Rhenium occupies a very important place in the development of the chemistry of complexes containing metal metal double, triple and quadruple bonds. This chemistry involves coordination complexes that contain pairs or trinuclear clusters of rhenium atoms and has been surveyed in a recent monograph entitled Multiple Bonds Between Metal Atoms .5 This source, which covers the literature up to early 1981, has also been invaluable in preparing the present review and can be consulted for a more complete and detailed coverage of these classes of complexes. 

The chair puts the plan in Excel before the next meeting and perhaps does other things as well. Possible items for the others are setting up and doing experiments, finding information, setting up a model (theory) of the phenomena, and preparing the presentation. You can start... 

A possible solution is shown in Figure N2-9. You don t think the chair needs all her time for planning, and shift the job of looking for information elsewhere to her. You also reduce the time for preparing the presentation as you know how to do that. This frees up time for experiments and for modelling. There may still be a bit of spare time in presentation , but you leave it like this for the moment. 

Cyclohexene-1,4-dione 3 was first synthesized by careful acid hydrolysis of its monoacetal.3 Because of the high sensitivity of 3 to acids and bases, this method is not suitable for large-scale preparations. The present method is essentially identical to that reported by Chapman, et al.,4 with modifications for large-scale and minimal solvent use. Alkyl substituted 2-cyclohexene-1,4-diones can be prepared similarly.4... 

Once the clinical development is completed, four to six months are necessary to prepare the presentation of the NDA, which should be as perfect as possible. The content of the NDA is defined by the notification of April 1999, Approval Application for Drugs . The ICH agreement induced several revisions in July2001 and June 2003, to describe the preparation of the CTD, enforced in April 2005. 

Since the release of the 1996 NRC report, additional data on JP-8 have been generated. In light of those data, the U.S. Air Force asked the NRC to review the toxicologic, epidemiologic, and other relevant data on JP-8 vapors and aerosols to assess the scientific basis of the interim PEL of 350 mg/m3 proposed by DOD, identify data gaps, and make recommendations for future research relevant to deriving the PEL. The NRC assigned the project to COT and assembled the Subcommittee on Jet-Propulsion Fuel 8, which prepared the present report. 

The following features have been considered of chief importance in preparing the present compilation completeness of the data, reliability of the determinations, uniformity in expression of results, convenience of arrangement of material, and the indexing of the cross-references to tables. 

The chief drawbacks to using the Collins reagent are the nuisance involved in preparing pure dipyridine-chromium(VI) oxide, its hygroscopic nature and its propensity to enflame during preparation. -The present method avoids these difficulties by simply preparing dichloromethane solutions of the complex directly. In... 

Presentation support software This approach is not unlike that of approach 1, except that computer software is used to enable the presentation to be contained within a computer. Often those who will present it prepare the presentation material, and this may be done in an interactive manner to the group receiving the presentation. 

The author is grateful to Dr. H.Takiyama and K.Masumiya for their discussion in preparing the present article. 

Fig. 7.10 a Response time needed to complete a change of AR = (Rco — Ro)/2 obtained from fitting the transient curves with Eq. 7.3. The nontemplated and DG-stmctured film were electropoly-merized under the same conditions including the same total current density. Data sets a and b correspond to exposures to 1.2 and 3.8 % of ethanol vapor in dry nitrogen, respectively, b Sensitivity of nontemplated and DG-stmctured film as function of the partial ethanol pressure. Alexandre Nicolas analyzed the data and prepared the present graphs [7]... 

In the last decade, a great number of texts have appeared in the field of polymer science which lead to a most legitimate question Why another book We certainly asked ourselves this question when preparing the present text, and we wish to offer certain thoughts in reply. 

Studies of ring-opening polymerization of cyclic ethers and cyclic sulfides are underway in many laboratories throughout the world, A search of eleven leading polymer science journals, made in the course of preparing the present review, revealed 109 papers on these subjects just in the period 1980-1982 (1). This chapter makes no attempt to be comprehensive in its treatment of this active area of research. Instead, discussion is limited to important advances of three kinds ... 

IR spectra can be obtained regardless of the physical state of a sample—solid, liquid, gas, or dissolved in some solvent. If the sample is a liquid, a drop or two is placed between two sodium chloride disks, through which the IR beam is passed. Solids may be dissolved in a suitable solvent such as carbon tetrachloride or chloroform. More commonly, a solid sample is mixed with potassium bromide and the mixture pressed into a thin wafer, which is placed in the path of the IR beam. Newer instmments require little or no sample preparation. The present generation of IR spectrometers employs a technique known as attenuated total reflectance (ATR) coupled with FT data analysis. The whole range of vibrational states is sampled at once and transformed by Fourier analysis. 

I have heard papers presented at conferences where you know the person has spent years doing excellent work, but only 10 minutes preparing the presentation of the work. They are often surprised that others don t immediately see the value and cleverness of their accomplishment. 

These figures were assembled in the course of preparing the present study See Chapter One. 

Recall the first Define the Purpose and Profile the Audience section in this discussion of preparing the presentation. You may have connected with one or a few audience members who can advance that purpose. Pursue that opportunity by following up. What you do or don t do, now that the presentation is over, may determine the success or failure of your speaking effort. 

To get to this point with carbon membranes will take more dedicated research, the development of new ideas and with luck a few breakthroughs in synthesis and preparation. The present volume is a terrific starting point for the scientist or engineer who is embarking upon research in the area. Collected in one place for the first time is all that one needs to know to synthesize and test carbon membranes. The time saving offered by the collection of information into this volume is enormous and will prove to be useful not just for one newly entering the field but for the seasoned researcher as well. 

Ten years after the first edition and because of the tremendous novelties that have recently appeared showing the fundamental role of ruthenium in catalysis, it was the appropriate opportunity to prepare the present volume, which should be helpful to researchers, teachers and students motivated by innovative and sustainable chemistry. It might also be a source of inspiration for new and unexpected catalytic transformations. We are grateful to the authors, experts in their domain, who have contributed by writing a chapter. 

National committee and program of IDO is in active preparation. The present Health Authorithies accept the priority of prevention and the fact that new efforts are needed to improve the iodination program in Hungary. 

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