The First International Congress of Respiratory Biology (ICRB) took place August 14–16, 2006, at the Seminaris Congress Hotel in Bad Honnef and at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University in Bonn, Germany. The goal was to bring together researchers worldwide who work on respiration and to create a forum for them to interact. The emphasis was on promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and ...

Epigenetics provides the opportunity to revolutionize our understanding of the role of genetics and the environment in explaining human behavior, although the use of epigenetics to study human behavior is just beginning. In this introduction, the authors present the basics of epigenetics in a way that is designed to make this exciting field accessible to a wide readership. The authors describe ...

THREE papers in this issue of TVCG are expanded versions of ones presented at the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2003. These examples convey the breadth of work in the InfoVis community, attacking practically motivated problems from sophisticated mathematical and scientific perspectives. They demonstrate an interaction technique for navigation, a mathematically well-found...

THERE is still so much we do not know regarding how our emotional lives play out in digital experiences and how the design of systems, interfaces and interaction shape our emotions. How can technology support psychological wellbeing? How can we at least make sure that it does not hinder it? The majority of the research trying to address these questions seems to focus on identifying the problems...