A total of 161 abstracts were submitted for this year’s conference. Out of these 143 were accepted.

Authors affiliated with institutions from Bangladesh, Australia, Cyprus, UK, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Oman, Bahrain, Croatia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Maldives, are to present their papers at this conference.

MNU staff and students are to present 70 papers. Nearly 60 papers are from authors affiliated with foreign institutions. This year’s abstracts are compiled in the following pages, arranged by sub-themes 1 to 9. Abstracts of poster presentations are also included here within their respective sub-themes.

Abstract Structure
Objectives
Methods
Results
Conclusion
*Please do not include any graphs, tables, or images in the abstracts.

Keywords
Include 5 key words.

Font Size
12 pts

Language
English

Abstract length
Please keep your abstract length within the following limits.
Abstract Body: 250-300 words
Abstract Title: 150 characters, including spaces and punctuation. The first letter of each word should be in upper case.
Number of Authors: Up to 5 authors
Number of Affiliations: Up to 5 institutions
* First author is considered as the presenting as well as corresponding author.
* Please do not include authors’ information within abstract body. Any authors’
information within abstract body may be deleted from publication.