Preface to topic “International collaboration to control cholangiocarcinoma”

Preface to special topic: optofluidics.

This Special Topic section of Biomicrofluidics is on optofluidics or micro-optofluidic systems (MOFS), a burgeoning technology that aims to manipulate light and fluid at microscale and exploits their interaction to create highly versatile devices and integrated systems. This special issue puts together various contributed articles focusing on optofluidics or MOFS, which help inspire new researc...

Preface to Special Topic: Invited Papers of the 3rd International Conference on Ultrafast Structural Dynamics

The ability to visualize the real-time dynamics of atomic, magnetic, and electronic structure is widely recognized in many fields as a key element underpinning many important processes in chemistry, materials science, and biology. The need for an improved understanding of such processes becomes acute as energy conversion processes on fast time scales become increasingly relevant to problems in ...

Preface to Special Topic: Plasmas for Medical Applications

Preface to the Second International Workshop on Personalizing Persuasive Technologies

Personalizing Persuasive Technologies (PPTs) is a growing research area which investigates how interactive systems can be designed to better suit people of various dispositions, inclinations, and capabilities, and hence increase the efficacy of persuasive technology to motivate behavior change. Research has found that individual characteristics such as personality type [21–23], age [20], gender...

Preface to the Third International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations

This workshop is the third in a series promoting crosscollaboration between computer science disciplines on the topic of bidirectional transformations. The workshop had a 53% acceptance rate from submissions from four di↵erent disciplines. In this brief preface, we outline a definition for what makes a bidirectional transformation, and describe a history of the workshop and its associated meeti...