UTRECHT, The Netherlands, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- www.studychoice.nl

The Netherlands is an increasingly popular study destination for students from around the world who are looking to earn a bachelor's or master's degree. The www.studychoice.nl website provides detailed information on English-taught bachelor's and master's programmes available in the Netherlands. Transparency is an important aspect of the education system in the Netherlands, and that's why the website also allows visitors to compare the quality of the various study programmes.

One day soon patients may spit in a cup, instead of bracing for a needle prick, when being tested for cancer, heart disease or diabetes.

A major step in that direction is the cataloguing of the “complete” salivary proteome, a set of proteins in human ductal saliva, identified by a consortium of three research teams, according to an article published today in the Journal of Proteome Research. Replacing blood draws with saliva tests promises to make disease diagnosis, as well as the tracking of treatment efficacy, less invasive and costly.

Saliva proteomics and diagnostics is part of a nationwide effort to create the first map of every human protein and every protein interaction, as they contribute to health and disease and as they act as markers for disease states. Following instructions encoded by genes, protein “machines” make up the body’s organs and regulate its cellular processes.

NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Industry's First Quad-Radio 802.11n Access Point, Operating at Full Strength With Standard Power-Over-Ethernet, Highlights Series of Technology Innovations

Extricom, a leading provider of high-performance enterprise-class wireless solutions for converged voice (VoWLAN), data, video, and location-based services, today announced its new suite of 802.11n draft 2.0 compliant products. Extricom's fourth-generation solution is the only system to enable disruption-free introduction of full-performance 802.11n in the enterprise, for both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi bands, at the lowest cost-per-port.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Focused on Protecting Workers in Hazardous Situations

Ascom is delighted to announce the global release of the DURAsuite mission critical alarm and message management system.

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Designed to meet the exacting requirements of Healthcare, Industrial/Manufacturing and Corrective Services customers - DURAsuite's functionality, reliability and flexibility stands out. Whether assisting in the protection of staff that work in hazardous situations or alone or whether driving increased efficiency - DURAsuite delivers on a daily basis.

AI or ANN? Designers of artificial cognitive systems have tended to adopt one of two approaches to building robots that can think for themselves: classical rule-based artificial intelligence or artificial neural networks.

Both have advantages and disadvantages, and combining the two offers the best of both worlds, say a team of European researchers who have developed a new breed of cognitive, learning robot that goes beyond the state of the art.

The researchers’ work brings together the two distinct but mutually supportive technologies that have been used to develop artificial cognitive systems (ACS) for different purposes. The classical approach to artificial intelligence (AI) relies on a rule-based system in which the designer largely supplies the knowledge and scene representations, making the robot follow a decision-making process – much like climbing through the branches of a tree – toward a predefined response.

TOKYO, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

NTT Communications (NTT Com) today announced that it signed a construction and maintenance agreement to participate in a consortium building a new optical fiber cable system -- the Trans-Pacific Express Cable Network (TPE) -- that will link Japan, Mainland China, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States.

TPE, a new submarine cable network that will use cutting-edge technology, is being built jointly by a consortium that now consists of NTT Com, AT&T, China Netcom (CNC), China Telecom (CT), China Unicom, Chungwha Telecom (CHT), KT and Verizon Business (Verizon).

BEIJING, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

Mr. Wu Duanping, CEO of 5fad.com, revealed yesterday that the second hearing on the 5fad.com lawsuit against Baidu.com, dubbed as China's No. 1 Intellectual Property protection case, was held in the People's High Court of Beijing on March 3 and the court will make its final ruling by the end of May.

The case ranks No. 1 since the founding of the People's Republic of China in terms of the sum of compensation for copyright infringement asked by the plaintiff.

It is widely believed that the verdict will impose a far-reaching influence over the development of both the search engine service sector and digital entertainment industry in China. As a matter of fact, many parties are waiting to see what happens.

DUBLIN, Ireland, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Seminar Will Provide Practical and Comprehensive Training On Efficient Datacentre Cooling

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), a leading owner and manager of corporate datacentres and Internet gateways, will host a two-day seminar in Dublin on 16 and 17 April 2008 that will provide datacentre professionals with practical information about best practices for datacentre cooling. The seminar will feature three of the industry's most respected experts in datacentre operations and efficiency:

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for peri- and postmenopausal symptoms increases disease recurrence in breast cancer survivors, according to an article published online March 25 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Previous studies have shown that HRT increases breast cancer incidence in healthy women, but its impact on breast cancer survivors has remained obscure. Observational studies and one small randomized trial had suggested that HRT had no effect or even might reduce recurrence. However, two-year follow-up data from the randomized HABITS (Hormonal Replacement After Breast Cancer —Is It Safe?) trial indicated that survivors who took HRT were more likely to suffer disease recurrence than those who did not take HRT.

LONDON, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Yell.travel enables UK users to search the top 20 travel web sites such as Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, Priceline, Kayak, Hotels.com and other major travel sites at the same time with one click.

Yell.travel Corporation; http://www.Yell.travel, operator of popular web properties today announced the launch of Yell.travel; a tool that enables UK users to search the top 20 travel web sites such as Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, Priceline, Kayak, HotWire, SideStep, Hotels.com and other major travel websites at the same time with one click without having to search each website individually.