"With culture you're also measuring the contribution to the human soul, " says Prof Joe Goldblatt, executive director of Queen Margaret University Edinburgh's centre for planned events.

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Children with speech impairments are to benefit from technology developed at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.

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Professor Petra Wend, principal of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, has seen at first hand the use of the technology in Barga in Italy where they are routinely used on artwork all over the town.

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