LONDON, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Director Global Transfer Will Advance P2P Business

LONDON, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Online Payment Provider Enables Simple and Secure Money Transfers Worldwide

LONDON, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --

As Moneybookers' Director Global Money Transfer, Felix Leuschner will be responsible for advancing the growth of its peer-to-peer (P2P) money transfer business. While over half of Moneybookers' five million account holders already use its payment system for email-based remittances, the company is looking to aggressively expand growth in the volume of annual transactions.

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The potential of renewable energy in Russia may become the answer to experts' warnings about future depletion of country's energy resources. Currently, Russia is the world's largest gas producer with rich oil and coal reserves as well as subsidised domestic gas and electricity prices. However, the traditional oil and gas resource bases of Volga-Urals and West Siberian regions approach depletion and could face a rapid production decline. While initial steps have been taken for developing the renewable energy sector, reaching its full potential will require a large amount of investment, as well as government support.

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In a study I dub “Are you powerful or not?” I’d be in a third category. Why? Because I felt insulted when instructed to do what researchers asked of students. At Northwestern and Stanford, no less. Here’s what happened. Two professors, Adam Galinsky, Professor of Ethics&Decision Management, Northwestern University and Joe Magee, Joe Magee of the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU,  divided undergrads into two groups.

LONDON and BALTIMORE, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ralph Silva, TowerGroup Research Director and Broadcast Contributor, Joins as Guest Speaker

Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced it will be hosting a complimentary Financial Services Executive Breakfast Briefing with guest speaker Ralph Silva of TowerGroup. The event is being held at the Devonshire Terrace in London on Thursday, 4th December 2008 from 08:00 - 10:45.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, November 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Avantium has introduced a novel technology to measure corrosion. The technology has broad potential in the oil and chemical industry, where corrosive effects of crude oil, oil fractions and chemicals can have devastating effects on pipelines, refineries and chemical plants. Avantium's novel technology is used to assess the corrosive properties of fluids on metal and provides valuable insights that will help to minimize the damaging effects of corrosion.

Based upon its proprietary Nanoflow technology, Avantium has developed a new tool, which allows the quantitative analysis of corrosion of liquids on metals.

MACAU, China, November 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtual International Mobile Network Operator, Morodo has announced the launch of an Affiliate and Reseller program, enabling everyone to share in the success of the popular MO-Call mobile international calling service.

Speaking at GSMA Asia Macau, where Morodo are exhibiting, Morodo Group Managing Director, Andrew Reid, said, We had not planned on launching an Affiliate and Reseller program so soon but we were inundated with requests from around the world. It's a great means of letting everyone share in the success of MO-Call.

Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from the body.  University of Chicago researchers will describe the discovery, a testimony created by an Iron Age official that includes an incised image of the man, on Nov. 22-23 at conferences of biblical and Middle Eastern archaeological scholars in Boston.

The Neubauer Expedition of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago found the 800-pound basalt stele, 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide, at Zincirli (pronounced "Zin-jeer-lee"), the site of the ancient city of Sam'al. Once the capital of a prosperous kingdom, it is now one of the most important Iron Age sites under excavation. 

A review of previously published studies suggests that rates of adverse outcomes for mothers or pregnant women and newborn babies, such as gestational diabetes and low birth weight, may be lower after bariatric surgery compared with pregnant women who are obese, according to an article in the November 19 issue of JAMA.

That's right, women who have their stomachs stapled have healthier babies.

New research has traced elevated levels of a specific compound in the brain called kynurenic acid to problem-solving deficits in patients with schizophrenia.

The finding suggests that drugs used to suppress the compound  might be an important supplement to antipsychotic medicines, as these adjuncts could be used to treat the disorder's most resistant symptoms – cognitive impairments. 

The powerful black holes at the center of massive galaxies and galaxy clusters act as hearts to the systems, pumping energy out at regular intervals to regulate the growth of the black holes themselves, as well as star formation, according to new data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory. 

Scientists from the University of Michigan, the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Jacobs University in Germany contributed to the results.