UK government attacks European ruling on MRI scanners

Open magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners.

(1) In most MRI scanners, the patient examination table fits inside a long cylindrical tube. Large patients cannot be accommodated, and some persons experience claustrophobic reactions. Open MRI systems, in which the patient is placed between two plates, overcome these disadvantages. (2) Open MRI scanners are widely used in health care. High-field closed MRI systems are preferred for many exami...

Mouse Imaging with Whole-Body MRI Scanners

Magnetic Resonance Imaging has been used in clinical applications for several decades. It offers a physician excellent anatomic detail and tissue characterization. Within the past decade, advances in MRI allowed us to image with a sub-millimetre in-plane resolution. Achieving such reduction in voxel volume require novel technological developments in every aspect of the MRI acquisition process: ...

Linking UK Government Data

What does it take to create a web of linked government data? With the launch of data.gov.uk the UK Government has been finding out. This paper sets out the case for using Linked Data standards for publishing open government data and describes some of the benefits. It explains how Linked Data standards uniquely allow governments to publish data responsibly and why responsible data publishing is ...

Ruling out speculative hyperinflations The role of the government

In this paper we show that if the government can levy taxes to back the currency, speculative hyperinflations are ruled out as equilibrium outcomes. This is so even though convertibility is never observed in equilibrium. The only observational difference between a pure fiat money economy and a convertible economy as the one described in this paper is the potential of the former to exhibit specu...

Revisiting 'Fraser ruling competence' for under 16s in the UK.