The 2021 VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award goes to Mayra Donaji Barrera Machuca, a 2019 graduate from Simon Fraser University, for her dissertation entitled, “Towards More Accurate Immersive 3D Sketching.”. Honorable Mention Javad Fotouhi. Title: Augmented reality and artificial intelligence in image-guided robot-assisted interventions.

On 17 March 1813 King Frederick William III of Prussia issued his appeal “to my people.” It was a call to arms for the struggle against Napoleon, a war of liberation, “...It is the final, decisive struggle that we must endure, for the sake of our existence, our independence, our fortune. There is no way out except an honorable peace, or glorious defeat.” The proclamation appeared in the newspap...

The World Jurist Association’s Conference on International Arbitration and ADR – the Impact on the Rule of Law was held April 5 – 7, 2011 in Grand Baie, Mauritius. This Conference brought together 150 distinguished delegates and speakers from 20 countries, representing every region of the world. Our Host Committee was chaired by Honorable YKJ Yeung Sik Yuen, GOSK, Chief Justice of the Supreme C...

The Honorable Minister has brilliantly outlined the current status of medical technology--not only in Brazil but worldwide--and has analyzed the trends and the necessary measures for correcting the problems identified. I sincerely congratulate you for the clarity of your presentation, Mr. Minister, and I would like to express the firm commitment of the Pan American Health Organization to accomp...

The 50th anniversary of the Brazilian Academy Neurology (BAN) is being celebrated. BAN was founded on May 5th, in 1962. The BAN initial leaders and members are treated with reverence, as well as the honorable place where its foundation took place: the Institute of Neurology, first in Brazil, at the backyards of the ancient National Hospice for the Insane, which is an important and fruitful birt...

We express our sincere thanks to the honorable Editors and anonymous Reviewers for valuable comments and fruitful suggestions, which significantly improved the manuscript. In this paper, hierarchical Bayes approach is presented for estimation and prediction of reliability indexes and remaining lifetimes of a cold standby series system under general progressive Type II censoring scheme. A simula...