A new phase in healthcare is rapidly approaching where “deep learning” deployment in the health system is becoming more and more popular. This chapter discusses about “big data” and how it helps to manage healthcare issues and looks into the challenges and threats in using “deep learning” in healthcare practices. A better understanding, determination, and treatment of numerous diseases have been made possible by “big data” from the healthcare industry, which is utilized in “deep learning” process. “Deep learning” is also a type of machine learning; there are layers of artificial neural networks (ANNs) through which data are filtered from each successive structured layer to inform the output for the next layer. Deep models make it possible to find high-level characteristics, which enhances performance compared to typical models, increases interpretability, and offers more insight into the structure of biological data.

Digital technology proved to be essential in the “COVID-19” response, globally. “Deep learning” neural networks were used to screen, track, and anticipate future events during the “COVID-19” pandemic. More recently, researchers have used multilayer perceptron algorithm (MLP) to detect, diagnose, and treat the condition and the Inception C-Net (IC-Net) has been used for the detection and differentiation of COVID-19 from other diseases. However, further studies should be conducted to reduce the risk of data breaches and increase online security for future “big data”–based healthcare management systems.

In How to Weather Together, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton develop an innovative model for climate change mitigation and adaptation that brings together climate justice and community engagement. Translating feminist theory into practice, they demonstrate how we can gradually change the world as the world changes us.

Drawing on a rich and varied history of feminist, queer and anticolonial scholarship, Neimanis and Hamilton propose 'weathering' as both a theoretical framework and a set of practical tools for responding to environmental catastrophe. They ask how we can reckon with existential crisis through playful, low-tech practice by connecting the planetary to the personal. With photographs and a series of illustrated weathering activities throughout, the book turns academic concepts into practical, hands-on guidance for community groups, artists, students, researchers, and others. It shows how climate adaptation requires building better social infrastructures for our shared but different worlds.

Drawing on a rich and varied history of feminist, queer and anticolonial scholarship, the authors propose ‘weathering’ as both a theoretical framework and a set of practical tools for responding to environmental catastrophe. Connecting the planetary to the personal, it asks how we can reckon with existential crisis through playful, low-tech practice.

With photographs and a series of illustrated weathering activities throughout, this book unpacks key concepts and theories related to climate change (e.g. feminism, weather, weathering, infrastructure), and translates them into practical, hands-on guidance for community groups, artists, students, researchers, and others. In a quest for the redistribution of shelter and vulnerability as an ethical anchor point, How to Weather Together argues that feminist climate adaptation work needs to be broad, holistic and inclusive, while holding the line against fascism, capitalism, and colonialism. This requires building community-scaled social infrastructures for our shared but different worlds.

This personal essay explores the partly autonomic, partly behavioural process of thermoregulation in relation to everyday life. Queer feminist and materialist life writing regularly examines how socio-economic systems and cultural norms relate to the desiring self. I build on this tradition by reflecting on how experiences of extreme heat and cold can influence thermoregulatory processes and seed new desires. Although the non-human meteorological elements of heat and cold feature in a narrative representation of a formative decade in my adult life (24–34), this piece does not adopt a strong post-human or eco-sexual stance. Rather it questions whether the messiness of human desire, combined with our animal need for thermoregulation, can collude with the variabilities of weather in queerly anti-imperalist forms of ecological embodiment. What takes this life writing beyond the human is the attempt to document the possibilities in the human-weather relation: the human potential outlined here cannot be separated from the aliveness of the body and the energetic force of the weather.

The 21 chapters in Ellis and McCartney's edited collection, Applied Linguistics and Primary School Teaching, evolved from an invited seminar sponsored by the University of Strathclyde, the British Association of Applied Linguistics, and Cambridge University Press. A number of chapters in this 2011 publication focus on educational policy abroad, curriculum reform and teacher education reform and are recommended readings. Five chapters have direct relevance for the teaching of grammar in the renewed Australian Curriculum: English Version 9.0 (AC:E V9.0) (ACARA, 2026):