Bøger af Macie Holloway

Atticus Fletcher is a thirteen-year-old boy in a Darth Vader costume holding his mother captive in the basement. It was all HER fault he never had any friends. The other mothers wouldn't dare let their sons play with the son of a prostitute known throughout the neighborhood as the Black Widow Spider. Atticus assumed that's why he didn't know who his Daddy was. His mother must have eaten him. Now revenge is sweet as her bloody severed tongue can only produce a silent scream in the darkness, and he can focus on his remaining hit list- the rest of the world. Everyone always saw him as the fat freckle-faced kid on the bike, not a genius capable of walking through fire walls with his new Skeleton Key virus. A ghost in the darkness, he is invisible as he scrambles government communications and empties enough Swiss Bank accounts to start world world III. He won't stop until all of his enemies are walking dead and the black water rolling beside Sterling Heights, Mississippi turns red with blood. Facing extinction, humanity is left with only one hope - aerospace engineer Haiku Makanura. But, Haiku doesn't have time to play mind games with the devil, only the innocent. While the young antichrist is busy ushering in his apocalyptic season of 666, Haiku is sending out ninjas on stealth drones to rescue the children. As Ebola spreads throughout the world, and nations implode like stars in a pointless power struggle, he is the only man alive who knows the real passage to freedom. After all, legend told of two ghosts in the darkness.

Optical diagnostics is a specialized field of diagnostics that makes use of optical imaging. It is a technique that enables medical practitioners to look inside the body in a non-invasive manner. Optical imaging makes use of visible light and the special properties of photons to obtain detailed images of organs, tissues, cells and molecules. Optical diagnostics help in diagnosing various pathological disorders of biological tissues. There are several biomedical applications of optical diagnostics. The major advantage of optical imaging is that it offers minimally invasive or non-invasive methods for looking inside the body. Optical diagnostics also reduces a patient's exposure to harmful radiation. It can be used to measure metabolic changes that can act as early indicators of abnormal functioning of organs and tissues. A combination of optical imaging with other imaging techniques like MRI or X-rays can provide enhanced information to monitor complex diseases. The objective of this book is to give a general view of optical diagnostics and its biomedical applications. Researchers and students in this field will be assisted by this book.

Light-based technologies help diagnose an array of pathological disorders of biological tissues. Innovation and progress in the field of medical science and technologies has enabled medical practitioners to identify various diseases in a non-invasive manner in the initial stages. The optical technologies use laser radiation to capture light-tissue interaction, which helps in obtaining information with respect to the morphological structure and biochemical state of the body area that has been examined. In optical diagnostics, light is passed through the tissues of particular organs of a patient under investigation using optical radiation and the results are recorded. Several imaging and spectroscopic techniques are used in optical non-invasive diagnostics such as laser speckle contrast imaging, optical coherence tomography, optoacoustic tomography, near infrared spectrophotometry, confocal spectroscopy, and fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging. The book aims to shed light on some of the unexplored aspects of optical diagnostics and imaging, and the recent researches in this field. Those with an interest in this field would find this book helpful.

Daphne Delray is the only one who knows humans are about to be fossil fuel. To her, it is no surprise that embryos have webbed fingers. Humans are doomed because they believe they are Gods. Daphne knows they are really only fish recycling machines with snake eggs hatching in their hearts and nesting in their minds. She can't tell a soul, though. They wouldn't get it. Now as she looks to her dreams to make sense of her struggles, she finds she is a pawn in a mythological chess game between Immortal Gods waging war for her soul. For only Daphne knows the city coming from the clouds shall sink to the bottom of the sea.