PARIS, November 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Amid a Volatile Economy, Demand for Turnkey Office Space Stays Strong

Citing growth opportunities in Latin America, The Regus Group (LSE: RGU), the leading global provider of workplace solutions, will extend its footprint in the region with the opening of its first business center in Asuncion, Paraguay.

Asuncion, the country's capital and largest city, is garnering attention on the world stage in part because of its agricultural export products such as soybeans, cotton and beef. A recent Reuters news article highlighted that Some of India's top vegetable oil firms plan to lease or buy land in Paraguay.

Research into the development of invisibility devices has spurred two physicists’ thought on the behaviour of light to overcome the seemingly intractable problem of optical singularities which could soon lead to the manufacturing of a perfect cat’s eye.

A research paper published in a New Journal of Physics’ focus issue ‘Cloaking and Transformation Optics’ called ‘The Transmutation of Singularities in Optical Instruments’, written by Thomas Tyc, Masaryk University, and Ulf Leonhardt, the University of St. Andrews and Singapore National University, shows that it is possible to reflect light from all directions.

LONDON, November 28 /PRNewswire/ --

In challenging economic times, enterprise search applications can help employees become more productive. Recent articles and blogs are making this point, such as eWeek's, 5 Technology Businesses Poised to Boom in the Financial Crisis,(1) and analyst Brian Babineau's Got Search?(2) blog for the Enterprise Strategy Group.

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But enterprise IT groups need knowledge and confidence to plan a winning strategy. Vivisimo (vivisimo.com), an enterprise search leader, will help IT make the case with quick implementation, high user satisfaction and a measurable difference in organizational performance.

By manipulating the appearance of a chronically achy hand, researchers have found they could increase or decrease the pain and swelling in patients moving their symptomatic limbs. The findings in Current Biology reveal a profound top-down effect of body image on body tissues, according to the researchers.

Defective calcium metabolism in nerve cells may play a major role in a fatal genetic neurological disorder that resembles Huntington’s disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in a mouse study.

Each year, coal-burning power plants, steel factories and similar facilities in the United States produce more than 125 million tons of waste, much of it fly ash and bottom ash left over from combustion. Mulalo Doyoyo has plans for that material.

An assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Doyoyo has developed a new structural material based on these leftovers from coal burning. Known as Cenocell™, the material offers attributes that include high strength and light weight – without the use of cement, an essential ingredient of conventional concrete. 

Older people who spent at least 14 hours a week taking care of a disabled spouse lived longer than others. That is the unexpected finding of a University of Michigan study forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

The study supports earlier research showing that in terms of health and longevity, it really is better to give than to receive.

LONDON, November 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr Ian Gibson MP, Chair of the All Party Writers Group made the key note speech at the Authors' Licensing Collecting Society (ALCS) Annual General Meeting last night at the Stationers' Hall, London.

Following the AGM Dr Gibson announced the winner of the new Educational Writers' Award, sponsored by ALCS and supported and administered by the Society of Authors. The inaugural award was made to Ian Gilbert for The Little Bok of Thunks - 260 Questions to Make your Brain Go Ouch! (Crown House Publishing).

LONDON, November 28 /PRNewswire/ --

It was announced last night that Ian Gilbert's The Little Book of Thunks - 260 Questions to Make your Brain Go Ouch! (Crown House Publishing) is the inaugural winner of the Educational Writers' Award, sponsored by the Authors' Licensing Collecting Society (ALCS) and supported and administered by the Society of Authors. Ian Gilbert received his cheque for GBP2000 from Dr Ian Gibson MP at a reception at the Stationers' Hall, London.

The judges described The Little Book of Thunks as 'a completely original book to get all ages stretching their imaginations, thinking, discussing cogently and debating...a valuable tool for the teacher'.