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SDSU faculty tour Tijuana, collaborate with Mexico school
Faculty members and deans from SDSU pose for a photo outside Estacion Federal in Tijuana, one of several operations launched by entrepreneurs, during a visit to the city with representatives of CETYS University on Friday.
(Gary Warth / Union-Tribune)
By Gary Warth
San Diego —
Professors and deans from San Diego State University ventured south of the border Friday to meet social and business entrepreneurs in Tijuana and explore ways to expand its partnership with CETYS Universidad.
"We're calling this a Tijuana entrepreneurship ecosystem tour," said Alex DeNoble, executive director of the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center at SDSU and one of the coordinators of the trip.
DeNoble said he thought of the tour over tapas in Spain while doing a joint teaching project with Eduardo Durazo Watanabe, a faculty member in the School of Business Administration at CETYS Universidad (Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior), which has campuses in Tijuana, Ensenada and Mexicali.
Deans from the College of Professional Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering and College of Sciences were among about 20 people from SDSU on the Friday tour of Tijuana, which stopped at four businesses and nonprofits before ending at the local CETYS campus.
"This is just a start," DeNoble said. "I want to bring students down. I want CETYS students and our students to work together on multicultural projects. That's what today's all about."
SDSU and CETYS already have decades-long exchange programs, and since 2015 SDSU professors have taught classes on the global marketplace and international entrepreneurship at the Mexican university.
Looking ahead, DeNoble said he is working with CETYS to establish an entrepreneurship program and graduate program in entrepreneurship at the school.
The first stop of the day was at Estacion Federal, a former 1940s-era bus station that had been converted into a mixed-used plaza with residential units, work spaces, a coffee shop, barber and other businesses.
Miguel Marshall, a 2011 CETYS graduate, launched the project with his business Centro Ventures.
"Our slogan is 'Impacting emerging neighborhoods,'" Marshall said.
With housing prices out of reach for many in San Diego, he said most of his tenants are Americans who are taking advantage of the $500 monthly rent for 360-square-foot micro units.
Marshall said the project reflects the values of the neighborhood, with a focus on design, art and sustainability. More than 10 murals adorn outside walls, and a small art gallery takes up one of the spaces.
Marshall said he learned about entrepreneurship as a CETYS economics student.
"Just from the business class 101, everything started to make sense," he said. "I'm very tangible. I like to do things. By the first semester, I was working with an Israeli entrepreneur in Tijuana. We were selling wholesale clothing."
SDSU business professor Michael Sloan asked Marshall if he had a way of gauging what kind of impact the project was having on the neighborhood.
Marshall said he did not, which got Sloan thinking that he may have found an opportunity for his SDSU students.
"I could say, 'Here's a startup in urban development that wants to have an impact on the community, but they're not exactly sure how to measure it,'" he said.
Sloan asks his students each year to develop a project to help impoverished regions in other countries. Students have worked on projects in Bangladesh, Brazil and Ethiopia, where a portable threshing machine was developed for farmers.
While his original idea was to expose students to countries where they've never been, Sloan said he is looking closer to home this year because more students are interested in the border region.
Stanley Maloy, dean of College of Sciences, said he sees collaboration between San Diego and Tijuana as a benefit for both cities.
"Anything we can do to help improve the economy and stabilize Tijuana is also going to improve the economy and help San Diego," he said.
As another benefit, Maloy sees projects with Tijuana as a way of giving students a global perspective that is needed for businesses to be successful today.
Francisco Velez, dean of the School of Business at CETYS, saw a similar benefit to collaborating on entrepreneurial projects with SDSU.
"It means giving CETYS the opportunity to better fulfill its mission of creating professionals who are globally minded and also socially conscious and committed to creating a community that is more prosperous," he said.
The tour also visited La Granja, a concrete bunker-like building in the distressed Camino Verde neighborhood, where Torolab Collective founder Raul Cardenas talked about the nonprofit's far-reaching social innovation projects. Cardenas said state police had warned him not to move into the neighborhood seven years ago, but he said the presence of La Granja has been credited with helping reduce crime 85 percent in the area.
The tour also stoped at MIND Hub, a business incubator, and the Bit Center, a work space for companies and freelancers.
SDSU assistant professor Valerie Alexandra, who teaches international business and international management at Fowler College of Business, said the visits to La Granja and Estacion Federal demonstrated that the best way to make positive changes in society is from the bottom up and by working with people in communities.
"What we saw here was that what really works is when people are part of the change," she said.
Alexandra said it is especially valuable to work with people in the border region, because they can see problems from both sides and can help build bridges to solutions rather than walls.
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Cats Know Their Name and Ignore You Anyway: Study
Johnny Lopez
If you ever thought your cat was being aloof because it didn't know its own name when you called them then you are in for quite the shock.
A new study has found that our feline friends can actually distinguish their names from other sounds, so your kitty may just be ignoring you when you call for him, according to CNN.
If you've ever wondered if your cat was ignoring you because it didn't understand its name, these researchers have bad news for you.
Cats are able to distinguish their names from other random sounds, a new study suggests. #InternationalCatDay https://t.co/mniKrSyDYy
— CNN (@CNN) August 9, 2019
Researchers in Japan conducted a series of experiments in which a person would speak four different words and then say the cat's name.
Words were chosen which had the same length and accents as the cat's actual name. The idea was that if the cat acted differently when its name was mentioned, then the kitties must recognize their name from the other words.
The experiment was conducted by having the cat's owner and a stranger record the four words. The audio was played for the cats in 15-second intervals between each word, and the cat's name was always said last.
They found that all the cats moved or perked up their ears whenever their name was mentioned, regardless if it was their owner or not.
"We conclude that cats can discriminate the content of human utterances based on phonemic differences," the researchers wrote in the study published in Scientific Reports. "This is the first experimental evidence showing cats' ability to understand human verbal utterances."
What is still unknown is if the cats know that their name represents their identity. The findings only suggest that cats know that the word for their name holds special meaning.
So while Marbles may not know her name is Marbles, she knows those words are associated with a reward like food or petting.
Regardless, give your furry pal a treat and hope that she stops ignoring you! And whatever you do, don't show her the "Cats" trailer! Meow!

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Word Count of 39 Translations in Revelation 1:14
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Fiery (3)
Resembled (1)
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Flaming Fire
I beheld till thrones were set, and the Ancient of days did sit: his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was flames of fire, and its wheels burning fire.
Daniel 10:6
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And his eyes are a flame of fire, and upon his head many diadems, having a name written which no one knows but himself;
And to the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: These things says the Son of God, he that has his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass:
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He was 19 when he was sentenced to death row. Now, his 19-year-old daughter is suing to attend his execution after a judge ruled she's too young to observe.
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A federal judge ruled Khorry Ramey, 19, cannot watch her father's execution because she is too young.
Kevin Johnson was sentenced to death in 2015 for killing a police officer.
Johnson was 19 years old at the time of the crime that led to his death sentence.
A federal judge ruled on Friday that a 19-year-old woman cannot watch her father's execution because she is too young.
Kevin Johnson was sentenced to death in 2015 for killing a police officer when he was also 19 years old.
His daughter Khorry Ramey, however, will be restricted from watching her father's execution after US District Judge Brian Wimes said in a ruling on Friday that a state law that bars individuals under 21 from viewing executions is constitutional.
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit on Ramey's behalf to challenge the constitutionality of the law.
Wimes said in a wrote in his ruling that Ramey failed to show that the law was unconstitutional and that it is "in the public's interest to allow states to enforce their laws and administer state prisons without court intervention," court documents show.
An attorney for Johnson said that the judge's decision not to let Ramey see her father's execution was "ironic" because Johnson was the same age at the time of the crime.
"It's ironic that Kevin was 19 years old when he committed this crime and they still want to move forward with this execution, but they won't allow his daughter who's 19 at this time in because she's too young," Johnsons' lawyer Shawn Nolan, told reporters according to NBC.
Johnson, now 37, was convicted of killing William McCentee in 2005. McCentee was a 43-year-old police officer for the Kirkwood Police Department in Missouri. Johnson was accused of shooting McCentee in his car while he was responding to a call of fireworks being set off inside an apartment building, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page.
Ramey said in a statement that she is "heartbroken" that she won't be able to witness her father's execution, according to NBC.
"I'm heartbroken that I won't be able to be with my dad in his last moments," Ramey said in the statement,
Ramey also said that her father "has worked very hard to rehabilitate himself in prison" and that she hoped Missouri Gov. Mike Parson will grant him clemency.
Ramey said in the statement that she thinks witnessing the execution would help her begin her grieving process.
"I am my dad's closest living relative and he is mine, other than my baby son," Ramey said in the statement. "If my dad were dying in the hospital, I would stick by his side and hold his hand, praying until his death."


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Changes in Article 370 may lead to protests, London seminar told
Article 370 grants autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir, while Article 35A allows the state legislature to define 'permanent resident' of the state, which is key to exercising various citizen rights.
india Updated: Jun 21, 2019 13:06 IST
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Repealing or abrogating key Jammu and Kashmir-specific provisions in India's Constitution could provoke protests. (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP)
Repealing or abrogating key Jammu and Kashmir-specific provisions in India's Constitution could provoke protests and more radicalisation in the state, a seminar at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) was told on Thursday.
Setting out what was billed as the 'first detailed examination' of the new government's foreign and security priorities, Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, IISS senior fellow for South Asia, and others presented a range of perspectives at the seminar on 'India's Modi government 2.0 - foreign and security priorities'.
Noting that there is no immediate interest in India's security establishment to resume official dialogue with Pakistan, Roy-Chaudhury said 'back channel' efforts between the two countries should be complemented with measures on Jammu and Kashmir.
"The Modi government needs to exercise caution over its stated objective of abrogating Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution, lest it lead to demographic changes provoking further violent protests and an increase in the radicalisation of Kashmiri youth", he said.
On India-UK ties, Roy-Chaudhury said there are considerable post-Brexit opportunities, especially in terms of a convergence of interests on key issues of growing importance to India, such as cyber security and maritime affairs, besides increased sensitivities and prospective compromises on one another's security concerns.
According to Antoine Levesques, IISS Research Fellow for South Asia, Indian statecraft's challenge to 2024 will continue on simultaneously growing ties with the US and China, while strengthening India's deterrence and defence towards China.
"The flipside to India's growing strategic footprint in Southern Asia and the Indo-Pacific will become ever-more apparent: India will require a deft mix of leadership, process-driven, defence and public diplomacy to manage the growing inter-dependencies in its separate ties to Washington and Beijing", he said.
Viraj Solanki, a research analyst at the think-tank, highlighted India's focus on the littoral and island states of the Indian Ocean, stating that the Modi government will seek to enhance three key areas of cooperation with its neighbours: connectivity, including project execution; maritime security; and counter-terrorism.
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Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and contemporary science. The many dimensions of this work are explored in her books Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age (New Society Publishers, 1983); Dharma and Development (Kumarian Press, 198); Thinking Like a Mountain (with John Seed, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess; New Society Publishers, 1988; New Society/ New Catalyst, 2007); Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory (SUNY Press, 1991); Rilke's Book of Hours (1996, 2005) and In Praise of Mortality (2004) (with Anita Barrows, Riverhead); Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (with Molly Young Brown, New Society Publishers, 1998); Joanna's memoir entitled Widening Circles (New Society, 2000); World as Lover, World as Self (Parallax Press, 2007), A Year With Rilke, (with Anita Barrows, Harper One, 2009); and Pass It On: Five Stories That Can Change the World (with Norbert Gahbler, Parallax Press, 2010).
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Journal of Advanced Oral Research
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Manuscript Submission Guidelines: Journal of Advanced Oral Research
This Journal recommends that authors follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal's submission site [https://peerreview.sagepub.com/aad] to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to the below guidelines may be returned.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Journal of Advanced Oral Research will be reviewed. There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
1. What do we publish?
1.1 Aims & Scope
1.2 Article types
1.3 Writing your paper
2. Editorial policies
2.1 Peer review policy
2.2 Authorship
2.3 Acknowledgements
2.4 Funding
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
2.6 Research ethics and patient consent
2.7 Clinical Trials
2.8 Reporting Guidelines
2.9 Research data
3. Publishing Policies
3.1 Publication ethics
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
3.3 Open access and author archiving
4. Preparing your manuscript
4.1 Formatting
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
4.3 Supplemental material
4.4 Reference style
5. Submitting your manuscript
5.1 ORCID
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
5.3 Permissions
6. On acceptance and publication
6.1 SAGE Production
6.2 Online First publication
6.3 Access to your published article
6.4 Promoting your article
Before submitting your manuscript to Journal of Advanced Oral Research, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope.
For original and review articles:
Abstract: Needs to be structured with Aim, Materials and Methods, Result(s) and Conclusion up to 250 words.
Intro to conclusion: 3000 to 4000 words.
References must be minimum 18 in nos or can be more.
Tables: Not more than 6.
Figures/Graphs: Cannot be more than 3.
For case reports:
Abstract: 100-150 words limit.
Intro to conclusion: 800-1200 words.
References: 8-10.
Figures/Graphs: Not more than 3.
Please note the following guidelines:
Article title. Authors should include all information in the title that will make electronic retrieval of the article both sensitive and specific. A title should be of no more than 50 words, a running head of no more than 50 characters.
Authors' names, institutional affiliation and each author's highest academic degree.
The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed.
Disclaimers, if any.
Contact information for corresponding authors. The name, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the author responsible for correspondence about the manuscript (the "corresponding author;" this author may or may not be the "guarantor" for the integrity of the study). The corresponding author should indicate clearly whether his or her e-mail address can be published.
The name and address of the author to who requests for reprints should be addressed or a statement that reprints are not available from the authors.
Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these.
Word counts. A word count for the text only (excluding abstract, acknowledgments, figure legends, and references) allows editors and reviewers to assess whether the information contained in the paper warrants the amount of space devoted to it, and whether the submitted manuscript fits within the journal's word limits. A separate word count for the Abstract is useful for the same reason.
The number of figures and tables. It is difficult for editorial staff and reviewers to determine whether the figures and tables that should have accompanied a manuscript were actually included unless the numbers of figures and tables are noted on the title page.
Abstract. All manuscripts submitted to JOAOR should use a structured abstract under the headings: Aim, Materials and Methods, Result(s) and Conclusion. Structured abstracts are preferred for original research and systematic reviews. The abstract should provide the context or background for the study and should state the study's purpose, basic procedures (selection of study subjects or laboratory animals, observational and analytical methods), main findings (giving specific effect sizes and their statistical significance, if possible), principal conclusions, and funding sources. It should emphasize new and important aspects of the study or observations.
Main text of original articles. The text of observational and experimental articles should be divided into the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. Long articles may need subheadings within some sections (especially Methods and Results) to clarify their content. Other types of articles, such as case reports, reviews, and editorials need to be formatted differently.
Authors should number all of the pages of the manuscript consecutively, beginning with the title page, to facilitate the editorial process.
Introduction. Provide a context or background for the study (that is, the nature of the problem and its significance). State the specific purpose or research objective of, or hypothesis tested by, the study or observation; the research objective is often more sharply focused when stated as a question. Both the main and secondary objectives should be clear, and any prespecified subgroup analyses should be described. Provide only directly pertinent references, and do not include data or conclusions from the work being reported.
Outline the historical or logical origins of the study and not summarize the results; exhaustive literature reviews are not appropriate. It should close with the explicit statement of the specific aims/objective of the investigation and study hypothesis.
Materials and Methods must contain sufficient detail such that, in combination with the references cited, all studies reported can be fully reproduced. As a condition of publication, authors are required to make materials and methods used freely available to academic researchers for their own use.
Describe your selection of the observational or experimental participants (patients or laboratory animals, including controls) clearly, including eligibility and exclusion criteria and a description of the source population. It should be clarified that how and why a study was done in a particular way.
When authors use such variables as race or ethnicity, they should define how they measured these variables and justify their relevance.
The Methods section should include only information that was available at the time the plan or protocol for the study was being written; all information obtained during the study belongs in the results section. Inform consent and ethical approval are must content where applicable.
Authors submitting review manuscripts should include a section describing the methods used for locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesizing data. These methods should also be summarized in the abstract.
Results. Present your results in logical sequence in the text, tables, and illustrations, giving the main or most important findings first. Do not repeat all the data in the tables or illustrations in the text; emphasize or summarize only the most important observations. Extra or supplementary materials and technical detail can be placed in an appendix where they will be accessible but will not interrupt the flow of the text.
When data are summarized in the Results section, give numeric results not only as derivatives (for example, percentages) but also as the absolute numbers from which the derivatives were calculated, and specify the statistical methods used to analyze them. Restrict tables and figures to those needed to explain the argument of the paper and to assess supporting data. Use graphs as an alternative to tables with many entries; do not duplicate data in graphs and tables. Avoid nontechnical uses of technical terms in statistics, such as "random" (which implies a randomizing device), "normal," "significant," "correlations," and "sample."
Where scientifically appropriate, analyses of the data by such variables as age and sex should be included. Also specify the software used with all relevant details of statistical analysis.
Discussion. Usually start with a brief summary of the major findings, but repetition of parts of the abstract or of the results sections should be avoided. The section should end with a brief conclusion and a comment on the potential clinical program or policy relevance of the findings. Statements and interpretation of the data should be appropriately supported by original references.
Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions that follow from them in the context of the totality of the best available evidence. For experimental studies, it is useful to begin the discussion by briefly summarizing the main findings, then explore possible mechanisms or explanations for these findings, compare and contrast the results with other relevant studies, state the limitations of the study, and explore the implications of the findings for future research and for clinical practice.
Link the conclusions with the goals of the study but avoid unqualified statements and conclusions not adequately supported by the data. In particular, avoid making statements on economic benefits and costs unless the manuscript includes the appropriate economic data and analyses. Avoid claiming priority or alluding to work that has not been completed. State new hypotheses when warranted, but label them clearly as such.
Tables and figures. Tables are part of the text and should be included, one per page, after the References. All graphs, drawings, and photographs are considered figures and should be sequentially numbered with Arabic numerals. Each figure must be on a separate page and each must have a caption. All captions, with necessary references, should be typed together on a separate page and numbered clearly (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.). Please submit all images of manuscript in minimum 600 dpi original resolution.
Figure legends. All captions, with necessary references, should be typed together on a separate page and numbered clearly (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.). Type or print out legends for illustrations using double spacing, starting on a separate page, with Arabic numerals corresponding to the illustrations. When symbols, arrows, numbers, or letters are used to identify parts of the illustrations, identify and explain each one clearly in the legend. Explain the internal scale and identify the method of staining in photomicrographs.
Units of measurement. Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be reported in metric units (meter, kilogram, or liter) or their decimal multiples. Temperatures should be in degrees Celsius. Blood pressures should be in millimeters of mercury. Authors are requested to add alternative or non-SI units, since SI units are not universally used. Drug concentrations may be reported in either SI or mass units, but the alternative should be provided in parentheses where appropriate.
Abbreviations, symbols and nomenclature. Use only standard abbreviations; use of nonstandard abbreviations can be confusing to readers. Avoid abbreviations in the title of the manuscript. The spelled-out abbreviation followed by the abbreviation in parenthesis should be used on first mention unless the abbreviation is a standard unit of measurement.
The SAGE Author Gateway has some general advice on how to get published, plus links to further resources.
1.3.1 Make your article discoverable
For information and guidance on how to make your article more discoverable, visit our Gateway page on How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online
Journal of Advanced Oral Research adheres to a rigorous double-anonymize reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties.
Journal of Advanced Oral Research is committed to delivering high quality, fast peer-review for your paper, and as such has partnered with Publons. Publons is a third party service that seeks to track, verify and give credit for peer review. Reviewers for Journal of Advanced Oral Research can opt in to Publons in order to claim their reviews or have them automatically verified and added to their reviewer profile. Reviewers claiming credit for their review will be associated with the relevant journal, but the article name, reviewer's decision and the content of their review is not published on the site. For more information visit the Publons website.
The Editor or members of the Editorial Board may occasionally submit their own manuscripts for possible publication in the Journal. In these cases, the peer review process will be managed by alternative members of the Board and the submitting Editor/Board member will have no involvement in the decision-making process.
Papers should only be submitted for consideration once consent is given by all contributing authors. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors.
The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all those who:
(i) Made a substantial contribution to the concept or design of the work; or acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data,
(ii) Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content,
(iii) Approved the version to be published,
(iv) Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship.
Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship, although all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. Please refer to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship guidelines for more information on authorship.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.
2.3.2 Writing assistance
Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual's name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance. It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.
Journal of Advanced Oral Research requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
It is the policy of Journal of Advanced Oral Research to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.
Please ensure that a 'Declaration of Conflicting Interests' statement is included at the end of your manuscript, after any acknowledgements and prior to the references. If no conflict exists, please state that 'The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest'. For guidance on conflict of interest statements, please see the ICMJE recommendations here
Medical research involving human subjects must be conducted according to the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. Manuscripts not in agreement with the guidelines of the Helsinki Declaration as revised in 1975 will not be accepted for publication.
Submitted manuscripts should conform to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, and all papers reporting animal and/or human studies must state in the methods section that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board provided (or waived) approval. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee, in addition to the approval number.
For research articles, authors are also required to state in the methods section whether participants provided informed consent and whether the consent was written or verbal.
Information on informed consent to report individual cases or case series should be included in the manuscript text. A statement is required regarding whether written informed consent for patient information and images to be published was provided by the patient(s) or a legally authorized representative. Please do not submit the patient's actual written informed consent with your article, as this in itself breaches the patient's confidentiality. The Journal requests that you confirm to us, in writing, that you have obtained written informed consent but the written consent itself should be held by the authors/investigators themselves, for example in a patient's hospital record. The confirmatory letter may be uploaded with your submission as a separate file.
Please also refer to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Protection of Research Participants
Journal of Advanced Oral Research endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment. However, consistent with the AllTrials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
The relevant EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines should be followed depending on the type of study. For example, all randomized controlled trials submitted for publication should include a completed CONSORT flow chart as a cited figure and the completed CONSORT checklist should be uploaded with your submission as a supplementary file. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses should include the completed PRISMA flow chart as a cited figure and the completed PRISMA checklist should be uploaded with your submission as a supplementary file. The EQUATOR wizard can help you identify the appropriate guideline.
Other resources can be found at NLM's Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives
2.9. Research data
The journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the SAGE Research Data policy pages.
Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to:
share your research data in a relevant public data repository
include a data availability statement linking to your data. If it is not possible to share your data, we encourage you to consider using the statement to explain why it cannot be shared.
cite this data in your research
3.1 Publishing ethics
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics' International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway
3.1.1 Plagiarism
Journal of Advanced Oral Research and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
3.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a SAGE journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the SAGE Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
Before publication, SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor's Publishing Agreement. SAGE's Journal Contributor's Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the SAGE Author Gateway
Journal of Advanced Oral Research offers optional open access publishing via the SAGE Choice programme. For more information on Open Access publishing options at SAGE please visit SAGE Open Access. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit SAGE's Author Archiving and Re-Use Guidelines and Publishing Policies.
4. Preparing your manuscript for submission
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. A LaTex template is available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE's Manuscript Submission Guidelines
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article.
This Journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplemental files
Journal of Advanced Oral Research adheres to the SAGE Vancouver reference style. View the SAGE Vancouver guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the SAGE Vancouver EndNote output file [OR] the SAGE Vancouver EndNote Output file
Journal of Advanced Oral Research is hosted on SAGE Track SAGE, a web-based online submission and peer review system. Visit https://peerreview.sagepub.com/aad to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the Journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created.
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process SAGE is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized.
The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication's metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.
If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. The affiliation listed in the manuscript should be the institution where the research was conducted. If an author has moved to a new institution since completing the research, the new affiliation can be included in a manuscript note at the end of the paper. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
5.3 Permission
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the SAGE Author Gateway
Your SAGE Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article's progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be made available to the corresponding author via email, and corrections should be made directly or notified to us promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate. Please note that if there are any changes to the author list at this stage all authors will be required to complete and sign a form authorising the change.
Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the SAGE Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.
SAGE provides authors with online access to their final article
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The SAGE Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Journal of Advanced Oral Research SAGE administration on the submission site.
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