LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- It doesn't take long after you've polished off a plateful of the delicious vegetable before you are forcefully reminded of it in the restroom. Some people are surprised by the strange odor rising from the bowl after urinating. The unmistakable olfactory experience is caused by organic sulfur-containing compounds. In entertaining episodes our Chemical Reporter answers questions of our Podcast listeners on Chemistry in our everyday life.

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MARLOW, England, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced web-based mobile tracking technology from NetDespatch is helping to ensure the rapid delivery of urgent medical supplies from Europe to UK hospitals. Specialist courier DSB is rolling out the system throughout its UK network to manage the transfer of the life-saving supplies.

Part of an end-to-end NetDespatch delivery management solution accessed over the Internet, the mobile element is called Agility and uses advanced Intermec GPS and GPRS mobile scanning devices to provide live web track and trace from collection to delivery. Deliveries are very time-critical and DSB guarantee delivery to any one of 180 hospitals across Britain by 9am next day.

LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Misys Summit FT Recognised in Five key Categories in the First Annual Rankings Technology Survey

Misys plc (LSE: MSY.L), the global application software and services company, today announces that its Misys Summit FT solution has been awarded a top-three classification in five categories in Structured Products Magazine's Annual Technology Rankings, building on the significant success it has enjoyed since the magazine's inception in 2004.

FARMINGTON, Connecticut, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- LEED(R) Gold awarded to Otis facility in China

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) recognized Otis Elevator Company today for its leadership in environmental sustainability. Otis is a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX).

Located in China's Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), the Otis Elevator Company TEDA Center office building has achieved Gold-level Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. LEED is the USGBC's rating system for designing and constructing the world's greenest, most energy-efficient, and high performing buildings. LEED was established for market leaders to design and construct buildings that protect and save precious resources.

ATLANTA, Georgia, June 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Excellence and Distinction Winners Announced

Elsevier / MC Strategies, a pioneer in providing e-learning solutions to over 1,300 healthcare organizations nationwide is proud to announce that five Clinical e-Learning courses were named as winners in the 2009 Communicator Awards (http://www.communicatorawards.com/) presented by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA). With thousands of entries received from across the US and around the world, the Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring the creative excellence for communications professionals.

LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Unisys, the worldwide information technology solutions company, today announced a strategic software and services agreement with Prevx, an internet security company, to help organisations reduce the risks they face from cyber crime.

Unisys is partnering with Prevx in the UK to sell the Prevx 3.0 Banking and Finance and Prevx 3.0 Enterprise technologies to commercial, banking and public sector organisations. Prevx is included in the recently published Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms and Unisys will be the first solutions provider in the banking and finance sector to promote and deliver these powerful solutions to address the growing concerns of Internet banking fraud.

No. 1 “Evolution is the external and visible manifestation of the differential survival of alternative replicators.”

This is my all-time favourite, the Dawkins Fallacy, the definition of evolution Richard Dawkins gave in The Extended Phenotype p.82. The fallacy it contains is so obvious I’m amazed that his colleagues have not drawn his attention to it. The survival of replicators is a result of evolution, an outcome, and therefore cannot be the definition of evolution. If we said that fire is the visible manifestation of the production of ash, the statement would be true but meaningless. It would not be a definition of fire and it would tell us nothing about fire, just as Dawkins’ definition tells us nothing about evolution.

KOLKATA, India, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The CDM Executive Board of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has confirmed the registration of ITC's unique and large-scale social forestry project - a first of its kind in India.

CHAM, Switzerland, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- RapidShare AG, one of the most popular 1-Click-Hosters, has released its application programming interface (API). This will enable private and professional developers to incorporate RapidShare technology quickly and easily into their tools and integrate upload functions in music and video software or games, for example. In addition, they will also be able to write programs to manage RapidShare accounts - there are no limits to coders' ideas.

LONDON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- As the summer hols loom, and a warm one is predicted realbuzz.com has come up with a variety of healthy active ideas to keep the whole family entertained over the summer months. Our realbuzz.com top 10 healthy family activities include:

1. Swimming is always a sure-fire hit with children. With a huge push across the country to get the population more active and leading a healthier lifestyle, some councils have even dropped entrance costs for swimmers under 16 heading to their local pool. An hour swimming can burn up to 300 calories and gives the whole body a workout and not to mention the fun element. http://www.realbuzz.com/swimming