Please Say Thank You

Say what you please? Really?

Gennari and MacDonald (2009) presented evidence that reading times in comprehension are influenced by the likelihood of a speaker choosing a particular structure in production. It’s an important and interesting paper. From this they propose the PDC (Production Distribution Comprehension): choices made to ease planning in production give rise to distributional patterns in the input, which in tur...

The perfect time to say "thank you"

The year of 2007 was very special to the Journal of Applied Oral Science (JAOS). Some of our main goals were achieved like the increase in the number of international reviewers and contributors. Our online submission system, launched on November 1, has been receiving comments and suggestions. We encourage contributors and reviewers to keep on expressing their opinions about the online submissio...

A chance to say thank you.

Any research into why nurses stay in the profession usually comes up with the same answer - patients. Whatever else nurses look for in their careers, the single most important factor in their job satisfaction is being able to go home at the end of the shift knowing that they have made a difference for the people in their care.

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A scientific journal exists only because of the good will and assistance of its reviewers. We can only publish less than a fifth of the papers we receive and, in making our decisions, we depend on the expertise of many people. This year a total of 315 reviewers have helped us to decide about the papers that we should publish. Their names are listed below and we would like to take this opportuni...

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