Research by the University of Aberdeen found that 7% of 11-year-olds experience smoking in cars.
Prof Kenneth MacKinnon, of the University of Aberdeen, studied newspaper clippings for a year.
Software that will allow robots to "talk" with people is being developed at the University of Aberdeen.
Professor David Heald of the University of Aberdeen was next to give evidence on the spending review.
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The research project was led by Dr Aylwin Pillai, co-director of the University of Aberdeen Rural Law Research Group.
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The principal of Robert Gordon University later confirmed that they would be discussing sharing services with neighbouring University of Aberdeen.
The University of Aberdeen has received the financial backing to develop man-made proteins closely related to structures found in sharks.
Alexander Mather of the University of Aberdeen predicted in 1992 that forest transition is the likely future of tropical countries, too.
The amyloid theory "is in a meltdown, " says Claude Wischik of the University of Aberdeen, founder of the biotech TauRx Therapeutics.
As Hugh Pennington, professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, says, there is some circumstantial evidence to support the theory.
However Prof Alex Kemp, an oil economist at the University of Aberdeen, said the closure would have a limited impact on oil prices.
According to the lead author of the report, Dr Gareth Jones from the University of Aberdeen, there is very little evidence for most complementary therapies.
Age is one factor, says Wendy Moncur, a computer technology and human behavior expert at the University of Aberdeen who has been researching the digital afterlife concept.
The University of Aberdeen report found insufficient vitamin D levels in women was a problem in the winter months, and even greater for those in poorer areas.
Some research groups are investigating ways to keep bats away from wind farms, and a University of Aberdeen group recently suggested radar emissions might act as a "bat-scarer".
Dr Lawrence Whalley of the University of Aberdeen, who has led research showing that smokers' cognitive ability decreases with time, said the current study findings were very important.
He said the discussions between the University of Aberdeen and Robert Gordon University would enable two distinct, independent institutes to run their universities in "an even more efficient manner".
The three-year project is a new partnership between Rivers and Fisheries Trusts of Scotland (RAFTS), Scottish Wildlife Trust, the University of Aberdeen, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and more than 16 other organisations.
"When you have such a big mass in such a small space you have extremely high gravity, " said Charles Wang, a theoretical physicist at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, who wasn't involved in the study.
David Lusseau, of the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, and Mark Newman, of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, chose to look at the dolphins of Doubtful Sound, off the coast of New Zealand.
Professor Alex Kemp, a petroleum economics expert at the University of Aberdeen, described the Falklands oil reserve estimates as "optimistic, " adding that even if they are proven, the cost of exploiting them could still be prohibitive.
Dr Lawrence Whalley of the University of Aberdeen, who led the research, said the explanation could be that smoking causes oxidative stress - cumulative damage caused by molecules called "free radicals" - to organs including the brain.
University of Aberdeen doctoral candidate Sophie Alkhaled, who grew up in Saudi Arabia, conducted in-depth interviews with 13 female Saudi entrepreneurs to explore the strategies they used to work around cultural restrictions on women in the Islamic kingdom.
"Employed across a variety of sectors, these systems can quickly process huge amounts of information when deciding how to act, " said Dr Wamberto Vasconcelos, who is leading the research at the University of Aberdeen's School of Natural and Computing Sciences.
To try to understand why, a team of researchers from the University of Aberdeen established a cohort of approximately 2, 000 women and measured the impact of diet on the incidence of asthma in children up to the age of five.
Prof John Beattie, head of the micronutrients group at the University of Aberdeen, said NF-kB cropped up in many processes in the body, including atherosclerosis, which leads to blocked arteries seen in heart disease and has been linked to zinc deficiency.
Dr Dermot Ryan, a GP in Loughborough and clinical research fellow in primary care respiratory medicine at the University of Aberdeen, said the data on chest infections backed up previous research which had shown cuts in antibiotic use had driven up rates of pneumonia.
Chief Constable Strang was giving evidence, along side Chief Superintendent Paul Main from Strathclyde Police, Peter Duff, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Aberdeen and Gerard Sinclair the chief executive of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission on the Carloway review, on Tuesday 13 December 2011.
Peter Duff, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Aberdeen, told the committee he agreed with Lord Carloway that corroboration "could go" and stressed there were a number of "corroboration fiddles" used to get round the law and there was a lack of clarity in this "very complex area of law".
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