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Two news stories on the University of the Highlands and Islands, currently the UHI Millenium Institute, report respectively that the organisation is on the brink of achieving full University status but this is subject to the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) recommendation which has asked for a stronger university structure.Regardless of the outcome, law firm Harper Macleod, is providing funding by for two three-year UHI PhD research projects, suggesting that commercial Scotland endorses it's long awaited and hard worked for 15th University.

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Phosphorus is just as important to agriculture as water. But a lack of availability and accessibility of phosphorus is an emerging problem that threatens our capacity to feed the global population. Like nitrogen and potassium, it is a nutrient that plants take up from the soil and it is crucial to soil fertility and crop growth.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1,500 Fellows are the cream of experts in the sciences, arts, humanities, professions, industry and commerce. This March it announced the election of 48 new UK and International Fellows elected after a rigorous four-stage selection process culminating in a ballot of the entire Fellowship. Each new Fellow of the RSE is recognised within his or her peer group as having achieved excellence within their discipline or profession.

Buses equipped with computers make interesting sense. Cisco, for one, exhibiting its unique Network On Wheels (NOW) Van at the New Start Scotland exhibition next Friday and Saturday at the SECC, Glasgow, sees this as moving hightech into the known element everyday of transport mobility. In the US a similar approach has been made by equipping the school bus with the Internet turning rowdy schoolchildren into quieter and either attentive students or dedicated gamers.

Around 63% of organisations take a day or more to recover from system downtime, according to research from Acronis. Despite living in a world where businesses operate around the clock, the majority of companies are still putting their systems, and therefore their productivity and profitability, at risk by failing to protect them adequately.

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Informatics Ventures seeks to maximise wealth creation and high-quality deal flows from Scotland's world leading academic institutions; and showcase what Scotland's highest performing company creation programme has to offer investors.

"Start prototyping, and just jump into it, not work for this perfect world:- all the money that you need, no competition, growing market, perfect employees, that day is never going to come. So just get into it" Guy Kawasaki

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In the run up to looking at how anyone selects help to build a website or happily goes the DIY route, ComputeScotland takes a look an one site that anyone wanting to keep an eye on their lairs kingdom, will have inevitably stumbled over, that is Scotland archivist,'Scottie' and his comprehensive guide to all thing Scottish at the Rampant Scotland site.

The most joyous conclusion to Robert Edbert's search for a voice 2009, which he lost in 2006 after operations for thyroid cancer, has been answered by delivery of a prototype by CereProc this week. Another Scottish-made program React2 from Propeller Multimedia is providing voice therapy rehabilitation for stroke sufferers, while Affective Media uses tone and pitch of voice as indicators of driver's emotion for use with voice recognition software.

Hightech but eco building technology slowly attracting interest in Scotland is the potential of the J.Pod and Energyflo. The j.Pod is a Scottish-Japanese innovation, conceived and designed by Scottish architect, John Barr and developed in Kyoto University with Japanese construction companies and universities. The Energyflo technology, developed by a research team at Aberdeen University, creates "breathing buildings" through insulation cells which trap and recirculates warm or cool air within a building and trialled in Scotland and Dubai.

Two studies, worth Scottish attention, focus on the physicality of landscape design and how the UK's earlier springs and summers sounds a warning if we do not want that silent spring.The recent trend towards earlier UK springs and summers, accelerating according to one study (alas, inevitably published when Scotland is still having snow in February). The other study constructively finds that rugged, hilly landscapes with a range of different habitat types can help maintain more stable butterfly populations (possibly bees too) thus aiding their conservation. It also highlights that Scotland has a paucity of monitored sites or perhaps we do not feel the need?

Game theory combined with legal knowledge and ‘second order thinking’ provides an effective structure around which to build business strategies advises intellectual property legal expert Alexander Carter-Silk. With a thesis on games theory under his belt, not to mention an economics and a law degree, he expounded his arguments recently to a crowded Scottish Society for Computers & Law meeting in Edinburgh. Barely sixty miles away, the young Institute of Arts Media & Computer Games facility in Dundee should have been logged in. Both their approaches are starting to shift games and game theory, with visuals and data which morph and segue sociology, science, business and politics into quite another dimension.

Business & Markets

Two news stories on the University of the Highlands and Islands, currently the UHI Millenium Institute, report respectively that the organisation is on the brink of achieving full University status but this is subject to the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) recommendation which has asked for a stronger university structure.Regardless of the outcome, law firm Harper Macleod, is providing funding by for two three-year UHI PhD research projects, suggesting that commercial Scotland endorses it's long awaited and hard worked for 15th University.

Hardware

Technology developed for use in multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAVs), a sophisticated autonomous computer framework of control algorithms - the first of its kind - allows one operator to control a number of vehicles from a safe position on the ground making surveillance missions significantly cheaper. The technology also offers potential in search & rescue, environmental surveillance, mining, oil exploration, surveillance and reconnaissance for traffic control, fire extinction, oceanographic or geological surveys, and marine and border inspection.

CERN has been able to take the first measurements of collisions between particles with the highest energy ever generated and performed at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator and recorded with the CMS Experiment, which involved a key component (the barrel pixel detector) contributed by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in collaboration with Swiss Universities.

Software

Around 63% of organisations take a day or more to recover from system downtime, according to research from Acronis. Despite living in a world where businesses operate around the clock, the majority of companies are still putting their systems, and therefore their productivity and profitability, at risk by failing to protect them adequately.

Scotland has innovative voice software skills, but Wales are the experts at listening to the sound of voices, so no surprise that innovative sound-mapping software has been developed at Cardiff University. Based on human hearing it aims to help architects design-out unwanted noise from proposed room design, through the use of audibility maps. Currently looking for a software company to develop the market, long term it could have architectural impact of comfortable conversation places.

Technology developed for use in multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAVs), a sophisticated autonomous computer framework of control algorithms - the first of its kind - allows one operator to control a number of vehicles from a safe position on the ground making surveillance missions significantly cheaper. The technology also offers potential in search & rescue, environmental surveillance, mining, oil exploration, surveillance and reconnaissance for traffic control, fire extinction, oceanographic or geological surveys, and marine and border inspection.

Server/Data Storage

Around 63% of organisations take a day or more to recover from system downtime, according to research from Acronis. Despite living in a world where businesses operate around the clock, the majority of companies are still putting their systems, and therefore their productivity and profitability, at risk by failing to protect them adequately.

Dingwall based Alchemy Plus has now submitted proposals to Highland Council in Scotland with the aim of creating a £20m computing centre, which might seem lightweight in comparison to the proposed and conditional approved £950m Lockerbie data centre but is greeted with enthusiasm in Inverness and it could be opened by 2011.

Networking/Community

Buses equipped with computers make interesting sense. Cisco, for one, exhibiting its unique Network On Wheels (NOW) Van at the New Start Scotland exhibition next Friday and Saturday at the SECC, Glasgow, sees this as moving hightech into the known element everyday of transport mobility. In the US a similar approach has been made by equipping the school bus with the Internet turning rowdy schoolchildren into quieter and either attentive students or dedicated gamers.

Services

The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1,500 Fellows are the cream of experts in the sciences, arts, humanities, professions, industry and commerce. This March it announced the election of 48 new UK and International Fellows elected after a rigorous four-stage selection process culminating in a ballot of the entire Fellowship. Each new Fellow of the RSE is recognised within his or her peer group as having achieved excellence within their discipline or profession.

Buses equipped with computers make interesting sense. Cisco, for one, exhibiting its unique Network On Wheels (NOW) Van at the New Start Scotland exhibition next Friday and Saturday at the SECC, Glasgow, sees this as moving hightech into the known element everyday of transport mobility. In the US a similar approach has been made by equipping the school bus with the Internet turning rowdy schoolchildren into quieter and either attentive students or dedicated gamers.

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