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A highly accurate 3D map of Britain made available online by aerial mapping company Bluesky is created using data from aircraft mounted lasers that transmit light pulses that bounce off the earth’s surface the 3D map covers most of England and Wales, including all major towns and floodplains. Nothing there for Scotland? Not so!

In January 2012 the Westminster government offered to devolve to the Scottish Parliament the powers necessary to conduct a referendum on the independence of Scotland, with the possibility of repealing the Act of Union of 1707. This could return Great Britain to a Union of the Crowns, with separate parliaments under one sovereign.

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LMU biologist, Professor Susanne Renner teamed with Professor Robert E. Ricklefs at University of Missouri in St. Louis used data to dispose of the neural theory for rainforests. At Cambridge University Professor Holger Babinsky creates a 1-minute video to show it is lower air pressure above that raises a wing, not the common but wrong explanation of wing curvature creating wing lift.

nnovative sensors have been developed that will dramatically improve the ability to spot early warning signs of corrosion in concrete. More resilient and much longer lasting than traditional corrosion sensors they will make monitoring the safety of structures such as bridges and vital coastal defences much more effective as carbon steel bars used to reinforce submerged concrete in tidal zone areas are at particular risk of corrosion caused by wet conditions.

China’s oldest and third largest brewer, Harbin Beer has hired British company Telemetry to serve and audit its online video advertising in China. Telemetry being the first foreign company to be permitted to serve and audit an online video campaign for a Chinese brand, within China not unjustifiably claims a major achievement.

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David Milne in 1970 appointed to the Wolfson Microelectronics Institute in Edinburgh where he became director in 1973. He took the Institute private in 1985 forming a company specialising in integrated circuit design for third parties  and transitioned it into a fabless semiconductor company in 1995 addressing the emerging market for digital consumer applications and has since established a worldwide reputation for its audio products used in many iconic digital consumer products. It listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2003 reaching a market capitalisation in excess of $1bn in 2006.

ADS Scotland noting that The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) is on course to complete the move to electronic trading for all procurement by the end of 2012, saying the move to e-Trading will allow faster payment, clearer audit trails and increased cash flows for suppliers, is to introduce a series of free briefings designed specifically for the Aerospace and Defence sector in Scotland to be delivered by national law firm, Dundas & Wilson with Core Business Psychology Ltd.

The requirements for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) deployment in the UK following the publication of the Government's 2050 CCS Roadmap.
Planned sessions focus on the continued technical challenges and overall feasibility of post-combustion CCS, and will include discussion on the findings from the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) studies, which were completed as part of the now discontinued Longannet project. The seminar will also examine how these findings can be used in taking forward the development of CCS.

Are you up to speed on the two environmental regulations for two directives concerning electronic waste and batteries and what they will mean to your business in 2012?  Important, significant changes planned will impact upon your environmental responsibilities. UK Department for business, Innovation and Skills invites you to a free half day roadshow in your area which will provide you with essential information and helpful advice.

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Last November, Google announced its support for a new Data Journalism competition, organised by the Global Editors Network. The competition is now open to submissions and a London event detailed on how to compete and win a total of six prizes worth €45,000. Hopefully even if the UK makes a poor fist at it this time, it will encourage higher teaching associations specialising in journalism to push at data analysis and social network analysis tools and skills.

As Scotland opens a prototype government search portal, European and Chinese experts in political science, simulation and computing technologies are working to develop new software through a 17 partner and 12 project linked FUPOL that will allow politicians to analyse opinions expressed in social networks. But concurrently political and economic theorists could also gain pragmatic wisdom learning how an ant colony allocates food resources, according to authors of a new paper in The American Naturalist.

Scotland is undertaking considerable joint collaborative work with energy researchers across the world, encompassing Hong Kong, India, the Maldives, China and most recently Abu Dhabi. Renewable energy interest however is less solar energy, a market where China already dominates globally (with perhaps the exception of ultra thin solar), and more in wind, wave, tidal power, and second generation bio-fuel. Sadly Scotland seems disinclined to team or advance with its European neighbours, despite Napier nursing solar power research. The two early 2012 concentrated solar power conferences are held in Johannesburg and New Delhi.

Focusing concerned society on issues, whether it be prostrate cancer or a lack of women in technology can range from such curiosities as UK men going hirsute with moustaches in November, or a month earlier in Seattle, men wearing kilts to the US Microsoft PASS summit SQL Server meeting, in support for Women in Technology.

Currently both TEM plates design methods require precise (less than one tenth of micrometre) mechanical alignment of the device in the back focal plane of the objective lens, a difficult requirement in practical alignment of the microscope electron optics and prevention of charging the carbon phase plate film when in use

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A highly accurate 3D map of Britain made available online by aerial mapping company Bluesky is created using data from aircraft mounted lasers that transmit light pulses that bounce off the earth’s surface the 3D map covers most of England and Wales, including all major towns and floodplains. Nothing there for Scotland? Not so!

LMU biologist, Professor Susanne Renner teamed with Professor Robert E. Ricklefs at University of Missouri in St. Louis used data to dispose of the neural theory for rainforests. At Cambridge University Professor Holger Babinsky creates a 1-minute video to show it is lower air pressure above that raises a wing, not the common but wrong explanation of wing curvature creating wing lift.

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Margaret Hodge the Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts notes that "The idea of smart electricity and gas meters is a good one, but the programme to install 53m of them in all homes and small businesses in the country by 2019, at an estimated cost of £11.7 billion, is both challenging and subject to significant uncertainty.

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A highly accurate 3D map of Britain made available online by aerial mapping company Bluesky is created using data from aircraft mounted lasers that transmit light pulses that bounce off the earth’s surface the 3D map covers most of England and Wales, including all major towns and floodplains. Nothing there for Scotland? Not so!

China’s oldest and third largest brewer, Harbin Beer has hired British company Telemetry to serve and audit its online video advertising in China. Telemetry being the first foreign company to be permitted to serve and audit an online video campaign for a Chinese brand, within China not unjustifiably claims a major achievement.

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iomart Hosting has been voted one of the best web hosting companies and cloud service providers of 2011in the US HostReview Annual Web Hosting Awards winning third place, just behind Liquid Web and SoftLayer and was the highest placed of any European company. It also came 4th in the Best Cloud Service category for “those companies that offer outstanding performance and value for cloud computing servers,” ahead of US giant, Amazon.

Last November, Google announced its support for a new Data Journalism competition, organised by the Global Editors Network. The competition is now open to submissions and a London event detailed on how to compete and win a total of six prizes worth €45,000. Hopefully even if the UK makes a poor fist at it this time, it will encourage higher teaching associations specialising in journalism to push at data analysis and social network analysis tools and skills.

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A highly accurate 3D map of Britain made available online by aerial mapping company Bluesky is created using data from aircraft mounted lasers that transmit light pulses that bounce off the earth’s surface the 3D map covers most of England and Wales, including all major towns and floodplains. Nothing there for Scotland? Not so!

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A highly accurate 3D map of Britain made available online by aerial mapping company Bluesky is created using data from aircraft mounted lasers that transmit light pulses that bounce off the earth’s surface the 3D map covers most of England and Wales, including all major towns and floodplains. Nothing there for Scotland? Not so!

In January 2012 the Westminster government offered to devolve to the Scottish Parliament the powers necessary to conduct a referendum on the independence of Scotland, with the possibility of repealing the Act of Union of 1707. This could return Great Britain to a Union of the Crowns, with separate parliaments under one sovereign.

GeoPlace is one of two winners of the Best Project Delivery category at the 2011 UK Public Sector Digital Awards for the development and delivery of the National Address Gazetteer Database, alongside Surrey County Council for their separate e-safeguarding project. It follows on their European Award. But interestingly Scotland is not in the database. Great opening for a smart Scottish SME operation.

nnovative sensors have been developed that will dramatically improve the ability to spot early warning signs of corrosion in concrete. More resilient and much longer lasting than traditional corrosion sensors they will make monitoring the safety of structures such as bridges and vital coastal defences much more effective as carbon steel bars used to reinforce submerged concrete in tidal zone areas are at particular risk of corrosion caused by wet conditions.

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The engineering group Weir has made its second acquisition in the US shale oil and gas sector with the acquisition of Dallas-based US valve maker Novatech for $176m (£113m). Perhaps it should also consider the seismic sensor market too.

Gaberlunzie has always had an enormous fondness for robots from the earliest Ridiculous ElectronicDevice which he was warned never to stand near unless he had personally programmed.

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Rorward planning procurement strategies for far-shore wind developments is becoming increasingly hard to manage and have critical impact on the overall success of project deliveries moving forwards. The 2nd annual conference is specially tailored to protect future offfshore wind investments.

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Quantum computers, besides offering substantial computational speedups, are also expected to preserve the privacy of a computation.

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Gaberlunzie has always had an enormous fondness for robots from the earliest Ridiculous ElectronicDevice which he was warned never to stand near unless he had personally programmed.

The USA National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is being terminated A new database, the National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC), has been added. If you wish to receive NISIC Alerts access your Alerts account and add it to your selected Alerts source

Quantum computers, besides offering substantial computational speedups, are also expected to preserve the privacy of a computation.

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The head of IT at the Ministry of Justice is to become the Government's chief information offices, on the heels of Joe Harley announing his resignation from that post at the end of March. Government also looks for a replacement CIO at Department for Work & Pension where Harley held the title.

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The engineering group Weir has made its second acquisition in the US shale oil and gas sector with the acquisition of Dallas-based US valve maker Novatech for $176m (£113m). Perhaps it should also consider the seismic sensor market too.