Transatlantic Issues: Report from Scotland

A transatlantic perspective on 20 emerging issues in biological engineering

Advances in biological engineering are likely to have substantial impacts on global society. To explore these potential impacts we ran a horizon scanning exercise to capture a range of perspectives on the opportunities and risks presented by biological engineering. We first identified 70 potential issues, and then used an iterative process to prioritise 20 issues that we considered to be emergi...

Zero Waste Scotland Report Template

Conjugal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a case report from Scotland

BACKGROUND Conjugal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is rare, with significant effects on psychological and care needs. We report a case of conjugal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease from central Scotland. This case is particularly unusual as both patients were diagnosed within an 18-month period and experienced the disease simultaneously, with similar symptomatology and progression. CASE PR...

The Transatlantic on 2200 Meters

here has been much excitement below our so-called top band at 1.8 MHz. At less than one-tenth this frequency, near 136 kHz, you will find many amateurs enjoying QSOs using a variety of modes. Although US and Canadian amateurs need special permission to transmit here, there is a 2200 meter amateur band in many European countries and in New Zealand. Aside from its low frequency, the most striking...

TCP Behavior on Transatlantic Lambda's

Recent research in the area of high speed TCP has revealed that the protocol can misbehave in cases of high bandwidth long delay networks. Here we present work that clearly demonstrates this behavior of TCP flows in detail. This examination has led us to study the influence of the underlying network as well as the end user system using bursty a protocol such as TCP under such conditions. We des...