The Allen Institute for Brain Science today unveiled the groundbreaking Allen Spinal Cord Atlas, the world's first genome-wide map of the mouse spinal cord. Researchers can immediately access the free online data...
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Last month, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged that the UK should be a world leader in renewable energy calling for a national debate on achieving the UK's target of 15% renewable energy by 2020."Mr Brown...
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D-8. G-8. What's next?" "I will remind all parties about our common consensus on the Bali Road Map . I will tell both developing and developed nations to carry out their common obligations based on the responsive capability principle," the President said on the sidelines of...
A recent study has shown that the global occurance of emerging infectious diseases has risen significantly since 1940. Of these diseases 60.3% are reported to be zoonotic (from animals), of which 71.8%...
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Andre Oboler is a social media expert and Ph.D. in computer science from Lancaster University, UK and a Post-Doc in Political Science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is currently a Legacy Heritage Fellow at NGO Monitor in Jerusalem and edits...
You don't ever have to get lost again with a Disney Google Map. I wonder if you can see the inner workings of this magical place from outer space."Tourists overwhelmed by the mind-boggling size of Walt Disney World...
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The Platypus is one of nature's strangest animals. It has a bill like a duck, fur like a mammal, and venom like a snake. But scientists in Australia say they have now mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus, and...
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I often complain that many Japanese websites are available only in the native language.Therefore I have to applaud Tokyo Metro for the launch (in February) of a Foreign Language site.It not only offers the Subway Map of course (French, English, German, Spanish) but also tips...
Kudos to Google and the UNHCR for undertaking a project that makes such worthy and excellent use of Google's technologies, to educate and inform the public about global humanitarian crises."Internet search giant...
The unlikely Google hotspot of Nanaimo, BC, a 78,000-person city about an hour north of Victoria, has made waves by pioneering new features of Google Earth, and Time Magazine recently took note. Check out some...
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The BBC is reporting on the environmental devastation being wrought on the world's oceans. View the map here."Only about 4% of the world's oceans remain undamaged by human activity, according to the first detailed...
For everyone following the current political and diplomatic crisis with Iran, I havejust discovered a little gem of a story that has surprisingly received very little press coverage. I find it amazing and somewhat...
"The XIP format is an intermediate format of each vendor's original map format, and the format has the following flexible features:
-- It enables the differences of each format to be absorbed into one, while taking advantage of the characteristic features of each format.
For...
"Note 1: XIP format: Abbreviation of "eXchange format for Information Provider". It is the world first integrated map format that allows both 2D and 3D map data to be stored into one format.
Resulting from HI's technical knowledge of graphics and content and the know-how...