Deeplight

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Context-Aware Surgical Theaters, OR 2.0 2019, and the Second International Workshop on Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging, MLCN 2019, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2019, in Shenzhen, China, in October 2019. For OR 2.0 all 6 submissions were accepted for publication. They aim to highlight the potential use of machine vision and perception, robotics, surgical simulation and modeling, multi-modal data fusion and visualization, image analysis, advanced imaging, advanced display technologies, human-computer interfaces, sensors, wearable and implantable electronics and robots, visual attention models, cognitive models, decision support networks to enhance surgical procedural assistance, context-awareness and team communication in the operating theater, human-robot collaborative systems, and surgical training and assessment. MLCN 2019 accepted 6 papers out of 7 submissions for publication. They focus on addressing the problems of applying machine learning to large and multi-site clinical neuroimaging datasets. The workshop aimed to bring together experts in both machine learning and clinical neuroimaging to discuss and hopefully bridge the existing challenges of applied machine learning in clinical neuroscience.

For the past fifteen years, Commander Ian Philips with the help of thousands of others; choosing the best in each field designed and built Parallax, an enormous Space Station and the Deep Light device. The Parallax space station is located in the void between Ganymede and Callisto, two of Jupiter’s moons and orbits the colossal planet every fifteen days. From the top or bottom view, the Parallax space station, resembles a pair of eyeglasses with Deep Light star shaped object directly in the middle. Parallax and Deep Light were developed and designed to generate and contain a small controllable black hole to study and maybe for the first time shine a Deep Light into the void. However, things go array from the start and what they may have done is opened an unimaginable nightmare to Hell.

Following the material turn in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children's fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the 21st century. It develops the concept of entanglement, which originated in 20th-century quantum physics but has been applied to cultural critique, through a reading of Fantastika literature. Surveying a wide-ranging scope of literary texts, this book covers the gothic, fantasy, the Weird, and other forms of speculative fiction to argue that Fantastika positions entanglement as an ethical imperative that transforms our imaginative relationship with materiality. In so doing, it synthesizes perspectives from a similarly diverse range of areas, including ecology, physics, anthropology, and literary studies, to examine the storied matter of children's Fantastika as ground from which we might begin to imagine an as-yet-unrealised future that addresses the problems of our present.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th Computer Graphics International Conference on Advances in Computer Graphics, CGI 2022, held Virtually, during September 12–16, 2022. The 45 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: image analysis & processing; graphs & networks; estimation & feature matching; 3d reconstruction; rendering & animation; detection & recognition; colors, paintings & layout; synthesis & generation; ar & user interfaces; medical imaging; segmentation; object detection; image attention & perception; and modeling & simulation.

This book is a unique collection of abstracts from inaugural Brazil – India – Cuba – China – United Kingdom (BIC²UK) Conference on Materials & Machine Learning. As part of the International Scientific Convention "Universidad de La Habana 2023", it celebrates the 295th anniversary of the University of Havana. The volume encapsulates the most remarkable works in the field of Machine-Learning-Assisted Nanomaterials, covering a wide range of applications from Simulation to Imaging. The abstracts, translated into Spanish, Chinese, and Portuguese, reflect the global reach of this groundbreaking research. Special thanks are extended to the Chairpersons who have made this event possible: - Professor Sabu Thomas from Mahatma Gandhi University, India, whose inspirational leadership continually motivates us to strive for excellence. - Professor Dionisio Zaldiva Silva from Havana University, Cuba, who graciously invited us to participate in Saber 2023. - Professor Diganta Das from Loughborough University, UK, a valued friend and colleague whose support has been invaluable. - Professors Yuqing Miao and Ruizhuo Ouyang from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China, whose unwavering support has been instrumental in the success of this event. - Professor Kaushik Pal from Chandigarh University, India, our friend and International Convener, whose contributions have been pivotal to the conference. We also extend our gratitude to all the speakers who have shared their insights and expertise, the dedicated BIC²UK team who worked tirelessly to ensure the event's success, and all our sponsors, with a special mention to FAPERJ. Their collective efforts have made this conference and this book a reality. This book is more than a collection of abstracts; it is a testament to international collaboration, the power of shared knowledge, and the exciting future of nanomaterials and machine learning. Enjoy the journey through these pages. Fernando Gomes de Souza Jr. (Ed.)

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One of our finest storytellers,' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex SerpentFrom Frances Hardinge, the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree comes Deeplight. The gods of The Myriad were as real as the coastlines and currents, and as merciless as the winds and whirlpools. Now the gods are dead, but their remains are stirring beneath the waves . . .On the streets of the Island of Lady's Crave live 14-year-old street urchins Hark and his best friend Jelt. They are scavengers: diving for relics of the gods, desperate for anything they can sell. But there is something dangerous in the deep waters of the undersea, calling to someone brave enough to retrieve it. When the waves try to claim Jelt, Hark will do anything to save him. Even if it means compromising not just who Jelt is, but what he is . . .