You might not think it – and George Osborne and most ministers don't behave as if it's true – but Whitehall invests heavily in long term scanning and futurology.
One participant did not use the term scanning or environmental scanning but did describe trend watching as a similar activity.
Long-term scans of activity in home cages were performed to determine abnormalities in motor coordination and circadian activity.
A mid-term scan showed the baby had no limbs.
A search engine, for instance, could accept encrypted search terms, scan the Web for results based on those scrambled words, and return encrypted results for the user to decode without ever seeing what he or she was searching for.
Linear regressions were used to determine if CSA or TCV calculated from the term equivalent scan (PMA at scan ≥36 weeks; n = 27) were related to Bayley-III composite scores, controlling for PMA at scan.
In our analysis, we considered a positive B-profile pattern even those with only one positive scan on each side, which is not "predominant" in the real sense of the term (2/4 scans).
The Term Life Shopping Insurance Network scans more than 40 companies offering term life insurance and then faxes you a spreadsheet showing what the company considers to be the lowest-cost policy.
: Vertical Scanning Interferometry (Scanning White Light Interferometry), also known by the ISO term Coherence Scanning Interferometry or CSI, is an example of low-coherence interferometry, which exploits the low coherence of white light.
In the FRESHER project the term horizon scanning is used in a comparatively broad way, meaning a general scanning of different sources like scientific literature, conferences, Foresight projects, online sources etc. without drawing on an existing horizon scanning framework.
Big data, the term for scanning loads of information for possibly profitable patterns, is a growing sector of corporate technology.
