SALT LAKE CITY, June 20 /PRNewswire/ --

Equis International, maker of the award winning line of technical analysis investment software MetaStock, introduced three new international dealers today: AlphaAlliance, Statica, and Elastic.

"We are pleased to announce partnerships with AlphaAlliance, Statica, and Elastic," said Scott Brown, Director of Sales and Marketing for Equis International. "These companies are a natural fit with MetaStock; they all provide superior trading products which we expect MetaStock to enhance."

AlphaAlliance is a company located in Singapore who trains people how to execute effective trades. AlphaAlliance's education courses focus primarily on how to trade stocks using technical analysis.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Illinois, June 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Advanced ANPR/ALPR technology continues to enable public safety and security around the world

Federal Signal Corporation's Safety and Security Systems Group, a leader in advancing security and well-being, today announced that the Warsaw Police have adopted Federal Signal's PIPS automated number/license plate recognition (ANPR/ALPR) technology to better enable timely and efficient traffic enforcement along strategic roadways into Warsaw, Poland. Through this collaborative effort between PHU Telsat, local network providers and PIPS Technology, more than 20 PIPS Spike ANPR/ALPR camera systems have been deployed to monitor roadways for vehicles of interest in Warsaw.

LONDON, June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite, the UK's largest union, is today calling for the government to act quickly and decisively to safeguard the jobs and skills of up to 1000 people presently working on the GBP12.7bn NHS IT contract for the IT services company Fujitsu.

Fujitsu has today announced the potential redundancy of nearly 700 people working on the NHS contract, and follows the decisions of Fujitsu to withdraw from contract negotiations and termination of the GBP1.1bn contract share for the south of England announced two weeks ago.

Currently there are nearly 1000 people in Fujitsu working on the NHS IT contract and related activities to modernise IT systems, provide electronic patient records and quick and easy access to information and test results.

Leprosy, attributable to infection with Mycobacterium leprae, was once endemic over much of the world. Though now often considered a “tropical disease,” cases occurred north of the Arctic Circle just 100 years ago. The disease has gradually disappeared from higher latitudes in recent centuries. The last case of leprosy attributable to continued transmission in the British Isles had onset around 1800 (1) and in Norway the last case had onset around 1950 (2). Mycobacterium leprae was carried repeatedly across the Atlantic from both Europe and Africa in the last few hundred years, becoming endemic throughout the Americas with the exception of Chile, Canada and the northern United States (cases still occur in Louisiana and Texas). The disease is found throughout Africa and Asia.

One of my pet peeves is the common description in the media of bacteria "learning" to "outsmart" antibiotics. As anyone with a basic comprehension of evolution knows, learning has nothing to do with it. Learning is what happens during the lifetime of an individual, and it occurs in direct response to some information that the individual encounters. When bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, it is not by learning. The individual bacteria do not sense the antibiotic and change to become resistant. Rather, individual bacteria in a population that happen to be resistant because of some genetic difference (or in whom a mutation conferring resistance arises by chance or through gene transfer from another population) will survive and reproduce more effectively than individuals lacking the genetic characteristic that confers resistance. Over many generations of this process, the gene providing resistance to the antibiotic will be found in the majority of bacteria -- not because it "spreads" and not because individual bacteria develop  resistance, but because the bacteria that are the most abundant in the population after many generations are obviously the descendants of the ancestors that left the most offspring, namely those who survived the antibiotics.

MUMBAI, India, June 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) Partners With International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA) to Showcase Business Games and Simulations.

Global e-learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems announced its newly formed partnership with the International Simulation and Gaming Association to promote the use of gaming and simulations in India Inc.'s business acumen skill development.

Skin piercings might be the rage among teens, but researchers from Tel Aviv University have found good reasons to think twice about piercing one's tongue or lip.

Dr. Liran Levin, a dentist from the Department of Oral Rehabilitation, School of Dental Medicine at Tel Aviv University has found that about 15 to 20 percent of teens with oral piercings are at high risk for both tooth fractures and gum disease. Resulting tooth fractures as well as periodontal problems, he says, can lead to anterior (front) tooth loss later in life.

High rates of fractures due to piercings are not found in other age groups, and cases of severe periodontal damage in teens without oral piercings are similarly rare, says Dr. Levin, who conducted the study with partners Dr. Yehuda Zadik and Dr. Tal Becker, both dentists in the Israeli Army.

Researchers have found that female red squirrels showed high levels of multimale mating and would even mate with males that had similar genetic relatedness, basically mating with their relatives.

Researchers from the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom studied a population of red squirrels over a period of three years near Kluane National Park in southwest Yukon.

While males mating with multiple females is quite common in the animal kingdom, females that multi-mate is much harder to explain.

LONDON, June 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Providing the Platform Behind the First Full Length Movie Download Store for Mobile Phones in Europe

It was revealed today that London-based company, Saffron Digital, provided the technology platform behind Motorola's video download store. The movie download store gives users the opportunity to download full feature films direct to their PC's and then side load them to mobile phones.

While the UK website (http://www.hellomoto.co.uk) is the first in Europe to support such functionality, the service will be extended to Germany, Italy, Spain and France.

A new discovery by University of Western Ontario scientist Graham Thompson claims to be conclusive evidence that the 'selfish gene', introduced conceptually in 1976 by British biologist Richard Dawkins, isn't just accepted as a natural extension to the works of Charles Darwin, but is now confirmed.

In studying genomes, the word 'selfish' does not refer to the human-describing adjective of self-centered behavior but rather to the blind tendency of genes wanting to continue their existence into the next generation. Ironically, this 'selfish' tendency can appear anything but selfish when the gene does move ahead for selfless and even self-sacrificing reasons.

For instance, in the honey bee colony, a complex social breeding system described as a 'super-organism,' the female worker bees are sterile. The adult queen bee, selected and developed by the worker bees, is left to mate with the male drones.