Part I. Medical Technologies for the Betterment of Humankind -- Chapter 1. Empathy and the Quest for Social Ethics - Their Relevance to Contemporary Healthcare. The European Perspective -- Chapter 2. Conceptual Model of Professional Supervision Study Based on Data Mining - A Study in the Regional Council of Nutritionists of the 4-th Brazilian Region (Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo States) -- Chapter 3. Building Bridges and Remediating Illiteracy - How Intergenerational Cooperation Foster Better Engineering Professionals -- Chapter 4. Acoustic Contrast between Neutral and Angry Speech: Variation of Prosodic Features in Algerian Dialect Speech and German Speech -- Part II. Medical Technologies Systems -- Chapter 5. Artificial Intelligence and Its Application in Insulin Bolus Calculators -- Chapter 6. Feature Extraction Based on Wavelet Transform for Classification of Stress Level -- Chapter 7. Packet Synchronization in a Network Time Protocol Server and ASTM Elecsys Packets during Detection for Cancer with Optical DNA Biochip -- Chapter 8. Particle Swarm Optimization with Tabu Search Algorithm (PSO-TS) Applied to Multiple Sequence Alignment Problem -- Chapter 9. Extracted Haralick's Texture Features for Abnormal Blood Cells -- Chapter 10. Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Internet of Medical Things: New Technologies in Detecting, Pre-venting and Controlling of Emergent Diseases -- Chapter 11. The Role of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in Intelligent Transport Systems for Healthcare -- Chapter 12. The Vedic Design Carry Look Ahead (VD-CLA) - A Smart and Hardware Friendly Implementation of the FIR Filter for ECG Signal Denoising -- Chapter 13. Implementation of an FPGA Real-Time Configurable System for Enhancement of Lung and Heart Images -- Chapter 14. Adaptive Specular Reflection Detection in Cervigrams (ASRDC) Technique- A Computer-Aided Tool for Early Screening of Cervical Cancer -- Chapter 15. Implementation of Image Encryption by Steganography Using Discrete Wavelet Transform in Verilog -- Chapter 16. Non-Destructive Diagnosis and Analysis of Computed Microtomography Images via Texture Descriptors.