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...

In this age of modern era, the use of internet must be maximized. Yeah, internet will help us very much not only for important thing but also for daily activities. Many people now, from any level can use internet. The sources of internet connection can also be enjoyed in many places. As one of the benefits is to get the on-line if you can t say something nice book, as the world window, as many ...

Selfies refer to self-portraits taken by oneself using a digital camera or a smartphone. They become increasingly popular in social media. However, little is known about how selfies reflect their owners’ personality traits and how people judge others’ personality from selfies. In this study, we examined the association between selfies and personality by measuring participants’ Big Five personal...

We propose a technique for making Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based models more transparent by visualizing input regions that are ‘important’ for predictions – producing visual explanations. Our approach, called Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM), uses class-specific gradient information to localize important regions. These localizations are combined with existing pixe...

A major source of communication breakdowns is incongruence between the words that people say and the nonverbal signals that they send, largely because we lose sight of the fundamental truth: You cannot not communicate. Every second that we are in the presence of another, we are constantly sending and receiving messages, often silent, nonverbal messages that can either augment our communication ...

Phonemic restoration, or top-down repair of speech, is the ability of the brain to perceptually reconstruct missing speech sounds, using remaining speech features, linguistic knowledge and context. This usually occurs in conditions where the interrupted speech is perceived as continuous. The main goal of this study was to investigate whether voice continuity was necessary for phonemic restorati...

ness of linguistic form may influence self-perceived attitudes in at least two ways. Thus far we have advocated a self-perception process in which people (mis)attribute their use of essentialist linguistic formulations to the centrality of the relevant preference to their identity. A second mechanism is also possible in which the use of more or less abstract linguistic formulations influences t...