FARMINGDALE, New Jersey, February 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Dialight Corporation has received a major order for its newly developed, high-intensity LED lights for military shelters, which have been approved for use by the U.S. Marine Corps. Complying with MIL-STD-461E, RE102 and CE102 for EMI/RFI shielding, they can also be used for vehicle interior and shipboard lighting, as well as for general illumination requiring high light output.

FARMINGDALE, New Jersey, February 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Dialight Corporation recently reached an agreement with Rio Tinto Energy America to install its LED-based SafeSite(TM) and LEDBright fixtures throughout many of its coal mining and crushing facilities, thus improving safety dramatically and decreasing maintenance and energy costs in these locations.

The rugged solid-state design of these newly released fixtures creates a new era where failed lamps and expensive re-lamping costs become a thing of the past. Dialight's newest illumination fixture, the SafeSite series, is designed exclusively for hazardous locations.

OXFORD, England, February 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Commerce Decisions today announced that it is working with North Lincolnshire Council to support the procurement process behind its multi-million pound investment in schools. The council has secured GBP80m to rebuild and modernise secondary schools in Scunthorpe. This investment is part of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, which is the UK Government's biggest investment in improving schools for over 50 years.

SANTA CLARA, California, February 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Finesse Solutions, LLC and Applikon Biotechnology Inc, announced the general release of the TruConnect(TM) gateway, a migration device designed to provide an interface between Applikon ADI 1010 and ADI 1030 Controllers, and the Finesse TruLogic(TM) Controller, enabled by Finesse's TruBio(TM) software (based on DeltaV(TM) control.)

Old media news groups that have put up news websites have had inconsistent success due to factors like the costs of moderation and the inconsistent quality of their user-generated content (UGC). As a result, readers are not all that excited about it.

You know what that means, right? Yes, we eat their lunch.

In a New Media & Society article(1), Neil Thurman of City University London states that despite a full-court press by old media to embrace Web 2.0 concepts, their own restrictions have caused readers to participate less than they would like. So some of them are considering it a failure.

In The Big Bang and the Birth of Culture, we talked about the beginning of culture long before what anthropologists had previously assumed.

One thing has long been clear. Not thinning forests has been a disaster for the environment. Groups normally at loggerheads have reached a consensus on responsible forest management and it identifies the potential volume of wood resources available from more than 2 million acres of Arizona forests, representing the first major agreement among groups typically at odds over the issue of forest thinning.

The “Wood Supply Analysis” report identifies a potential supply of up to 850 million cubic feet of wood and 8 million tons of biomass from branches and timber residue for such commercial uses as pallets, firewood, poles, lumber, mulch and stove pellets.

A team of researchers at the University of Alberta, including a scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, have discovered a gene that is able to block HIV, and thought to in turn prevent the onset of AIDS.

Dr. Stephen Barr, a researcher in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology at the U of A, says his team identified a human gene called TRIM22 that can block HIV infection in a cell culture by preventing the assembly of the virus.

Barr says “interestingly, when we prevent cells from turning on TRIM22, the normal interferon response (a natural defense produced by our cells to fight infection by viruses such as HIV) is useless at blocking HIV infection.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified a gene in Asian monkeys that may have evolved as a defense against lentiviruses, the group of viruses that includes HIV. The study suggests that AIDS is not a new epidemic.

The gene, called TRIM5-CypA, well characterized elsewhere (AIDS, 2007; PNAS, 2008), is a hybrid of two existing cellular genes, TRIM5 and CypA. The combination produces a single protein capable of blocking infection by viruses closely related to HIV. Surprisingly, this is actually the second time researchers have identified a TRIM5-CypA gene in monkeys. The other hybrid gene, called TRIMCyp, was discovered in 2004 in South American owl monkeys.

NEW YORK, February 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- First European Rare Disease Day highlights impact on people affected by rare diseases

European Rare Disease Day -- The first ever European Rare Disease Day will be launched on Friday 29 February...because it's a rare day that only comes around once every four years, of course.

(See video from Shire plc at: http://media.medialink.com/WebNR.aspx?story=34701)