NEW DELHI, India, December 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific information, announced today the winners of the third annual Scopus Young Indian Scientist Award. Prof. J J Theo Groothuizen, ST Counsellor, Embassy of Netherlands, presided over the award ceremony, held at Le Meridien in New Delhi.

REHOVOT, Israel and JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, December 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Tests Based on the Company's Technology Expected to be Introduced to the Market Shortly

- Initiates Research and Development of Blood-Based microRNA Tests for Various Types of Cancers Including Colon, Lung and Others

- Launches Rosetta Green, a microRNA-Based Plant Biotechnology Initiative, and Secured up to $1.5M for This Project From Private Investors Which Will be Invested as Certain Milestones are Reached

REHOVOT, Israel and JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, December 5 /PRNewswire/ --

LONDON, December 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- comScore Releases Review of Holiday Retail Traffic Trends in U.K., France and Germany

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the first in a series of reports examining visitation to online retail sites in the U.K., France and Germany during the Christmas shopping period. The study monitored the total number of visitors to online retail sites during November and compared average weekly visitor data to a pre-season base period of September and October. The study also examined traffic to the leading online retail sites in each market, comparing current weekly visitation data against the corresponding weeks of last year's shopping season.

LONDON, December 5 /PRNewswire/ --

The 2008 Sub-Saharan Africa Biofuel Emerging Company Award is presented to Global Biofuels Limited of Nigeria in recognition of its commitment to producing biofuel, promoting the socio-economic upliftment of Nigerians and reducing greenhouse gases as set out in the Kyoto protocol.

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HAMBURG, Germany, December 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- New `Trophon EPR' Device Offers Unique Solution

Current methods of ultrasound transducer disinfection are in many cases not sufficient for clinical practice. This is the latest alarming result issued by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the leading US public health agency, in its recently published Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities.(i) The guideline is the CDC's response to the rapidly evolving epidemiology of hospital-acquired infections such as Clostridium difficile(ii) or MRSA(iii).

SKILLMAN, New Jersey, December 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Free Support Magazine Helps Individuals and Families Embrace Life to the Fullest

ConvaTec, a world-leading developer and marketer of innovative medical technologies for community and hospital care, announced today the launch of ConTact(TM), the new global lifestyle magazine for people with a stoma. The free magazine is filled with practical advice and feature articles on living a healthy and active life after stoma surgery.

In response to reader feedback, ConTact(TM), formerly known as Converse, now features expanded content, including personal profiles from people around the world who are living the life they want, tips from contributing experts and readers, as well as a new look and feel.

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) today released a comprehensive analysis clarifying major challenges and offering an assortment of options that could help negotiators reach a global agreement on reducing carbon emissions tied to forest destruction and degradation.

The report, Moving ahead with REDD: Issues, options and implications, is set to be released as officials from around the world have gathered here under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Negotiators are seeking to outline a new global agreement for reducing greenhouse gases, which will set the stage for final decisions scheduled for 2009 in Copenhagen.

If you're happy and you know it, thank your friends—and their friends. And while you're at it, their friends' friends. But if you're sad, hold the blame. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego have found that "happiness" is not the result solely of a cloistered journey filled with individually tailored self-help techniques. Happiness is also a collective phenomenon that spreads through social networks like an emotional contagion. 

The decline of the Roman and Byzantine Empires in the Eastern Mediterranean more than 1,400 years ago may have been driven by unfavorable climate changes.

Based on chemical signatures in a piece of calcite from a cave near Jerusalem, a team of American and Israeli geologists pieced together a detailed record of the area's climate from roughly 200 B.C. to 1100 A.D. Their analysis, to be reported in an upcoming issue of the journal Quaternary Research, reveals increasingly dry weather from 100 A.D. to 700 A.D. that coincided with the fall of both Roman and Byzantine rule in the region. 

REDMOND, Washington, December 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Yahoo! veteran to oversee Internet offerings for consumers, advertisers and publishers.

Microsoft Corp. today announced that Dr. Qi Lu will join the company as president of the Online Services Group. Dr. Lu will lead Microsoft's efforts in search and online advertising and all the company's online information and communications services. Dr. Lu will report to Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.

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