2014 An exciting year upon us

Abstract

Dear readers, 2014 brings us a great year to both our Journal and to the Brazilian community of Biomedical Engineering. This year we shall all meet again during our traditional congress. This time, our friends from the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia have the not so easy task of hosting an event of such magnitude. The XXIV Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering will take place in the city of Uberlândia (MG-Brazil) from 13 to 17 October 2014. As usual, the event should bring together the academic community, scientists, undergraduate and post-graduate students, industry and government representatives. So, don't miss this opportunity. Please take a moment to access the web site of the event (www.cbeb.org.br), register for the conference and start preparing your articles for submission.Also, the editorial board of RBEB is proud to announce the "CBEB 2014 -Special Edition" dedicated to the XXIV CBEB. The editorial board, along with members of the organizing committee, will select articles presented during the event and invite their authors to submit full papers to this edition. All those granted with prizes and awards will be automatically selected to receive the invitation. Other papers will also be invited. As usual, manuscripts submitted to this edition should undergo the normal peer reviewing process. Only papers related to works presented during the CBEB 2014 will be published in this special edition.Shifting the subject to this edition of RBEB, as you may have already noticed, we are putting into action our plan laid out at the beginning of last year: the RBEB is now turning into a full English language journal. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors for understanding the importance of such move and helping us to achieve this goal. This first edition comes with ten very exciting articles written in English. Our next edition should come with another surprise: a new title in English. This has been a matter of great debate, but, with the help of the Council of the Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering, the editorial board is getting closer to some very interesting new titles. However, we also want to hear from our readers and from the whole community. To do so, as soon as the editorial board and the SBEB council agrees upon a set of possible titles, we will post a poll on the internet so that you all can give your contribution by choosing the title you think better suits our journal. So, keep an eye on your e-mails and on the RBEB and SBEB websites. This poll should come up soon.