LAS VEGAS, Nevada, February 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Diagnostic Imaging International Corp. (OTC: DIIG) was pleased to announce today that the Company stock symbol has been cleared for quotation on the OTC Bulletin Board.

The trading symbol is DIIG.

Additionally the Company announced today that the corporate website is now live at http://www.diig.biz

The Company plans to work diligently to build on its business plan as quickly as possible.

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A study by UC Irvine ecologists finds that excess nitrogen in tropical forests boosts plant growth by an average of 20 percent, countering the belief that such forests would not respond to nitrogen pollution.

Faster plant growth means the tropics will take in more carbon dioxide than previously thought, though long-term climate effects are unclear. Over the next century, nitrogen pollution is expected to steadily rise, with the most dramatic increases in rapidly developing tropical regions such as India, South America, Africa and Southeast Asia.

Nitrogen fertilizer, applied to farmland to improve crop yield, also affects ecosystems downwind by seeping into runoff water and evaporating into the atmosphere. Industrial burning and forest clearing also pumps nitrogen into the air.

Scientists from the University of Bonn are researching which plants giant dinosaurs could have lived off more than 100 million years ago in order to find out how they were able to become as large as they did. Such gigantic animals should not have existed.

Their recipe; take 200 milligrams of dried and ground equisetum, ten milliliters of digestive juice from sheep's rumen, a few minerals, carbonate and water. Fill a big glass syringe with the mix, clamp this into a revolving drum and put the whole thing into an incubator, where the brew can rotate slowly.

In this way they obtained an artificial 'dinosaur rumen'. With this apparatus (also used as a ‘Menke gas production technique’ in assessing food for cows) Dr. Jürgen Hummel from the Bonn Institute of Animal Sciences (Bonner Institut für Tierwissenschaften) is investigating which plants giant dinosaurs could have lived off more than 100 million years ago, since this is one of the pieces still missing in the puzzle involving the largest land animals that ever walked the earth. The largest of these 'sauropod dinosaurs' with their 70 to 100 tons had a mass of ten full grown elephants or more than 1000 average people.

When something is moving close to the speed of light, the fastest anything can move, sending ahead information in time to make mid-path flight corrections sounds impossible.

Not quite, say physicists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

They have developed a way to measure subtle fluctuations in RHIC's particle beams as they speed around their 2.4-mile-circumference high-tech racetrack - and send that information ahead to specialized devices that smooth the fluctuations when the beam arrives.

Citizen Science – Past, Present & Future, to be held at Vaughan College, the University’s Institute of Lifelong Learning, will showcase longstanding research from the University’s Departments of Biology and Lifelong Learning, as well as from the Rutland Water Nature Reserve, the British Trust for Ornithology, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) and the Earthwatch Institute, all linked with the University.

Its emphasis will be on how ordinary citizens have helped scientific research over the years of the University’s existence. In making this connection, the conference goes back to the very beginnings of Adult Education in Leicester, when Canon Vaughan made academic knowledge – including knowledge of the natural world – available to ordinary working class men and women of Leicester in the 19th Century. The university is proud to continue these traditions throughout the world.

BEND, Oregon, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

Vulcan Power Company today announced the G3 Power Plan, a preliminary plan for green grid transmission upgrades to deliver a "green gigawatt" (1,000 megawatts) of clean geothermal power to Los Angeles and Las Vegas from massive natural steam zones located in northwest Nevada. Maps and full article text can be found at http://www.G3Plan.com.

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SAN JOSE, California, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Acquisition Expands and Strengthens Atmel's Proprietary Microcontroller Product Portfolio

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Quantum Research Group Ltd. ("Quantum"), the leading independent developer of capacitive sensing IP and solutions for user interfaces. The acquisition of Quantum provides Atmel with an immediate presence in touch sensing, one of the fastest growing markets for microcontrollers. The acquisition is expected to be accretive to Atmel's net income per share in the fourth quarter of 2008 and thereafter.

CRAWLEY, England, February 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Capabilities for UMTS Location Test Solution (ULTS) Keep Spirent in the Forefront of LBS Testing

Spirent Communications plc (LSE: SPT), a global provider of performance analysis and service management solutions, today announced the availability of two important new capabilities for its market-leading UMTS Location Test Solution (ULTS): enhanced testing of Secure User Plane (SUPL) and WCDMA Signalling Conformance testing.

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, February 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Mosby's Nursing Skills(TM), the online nursing skills and reference system from Elsevier, today announced the launch of Mosby's Nursing Skills-Pediatric Collection, the largest and most robust collection of pediatric-specific Web-based competencies, numbering over 320 topics. The product is Elsevier's latest to deliver evidence based medicine electronically to help healthcare institutions improve the quality of care.