Almost all universities include some form of assignment in their courses. The assignments are either carried out in either in groups or individually. To effectively manage these submitted assignments, a well-designed assignment submission system is needed, hence the need for an online assignment submission system to facilitate the distribution, and collection of assignments on due dates. The ob...

The Scientific Electronic Library (SciELO), with the support of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), has given the opportunity for journals indexed in this database to use a more powerful online, electronic submission system. Therefore, soon the Journal of Applied Oral Science will use ScholarOne. ScholarOne has been providing scholarly publishers, societies, and associations with online...

OBJECTIVES After reading this article, users will be able to do the following: understand the requirements of online submission of manuscripts; prepare manuscript, figure, and table files to optimize digital formats; avoid common pitfalls encountered in online submission processes; and speed the processing and review time.

1. Instructions to authors about submitting papers for publication vary hugely — from none at all to whole handbooks. 2. Online submission systems have not reduced the complexity of submission and may have increased the work of authors. 3. Electronic submission processes do not appear to have been adequately ‘road tested’ with authors. 4. Some publishers are introducing more flexible submission...

Introduction: Usually, when detecting activated regions in fMRI data, only the sequence of T2*-weighted images is analyzed. This image sequence contains blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal, which is related to neurological activity. Since the images are very noisy, spatial smoothing is applied before signal detection. To improve the detection performance, the filtering can be made a...