LONDON, November 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Manpower Software plc, the leading provider of workforce optimisation and electronic rostering solutions in the UK healthcare market, is pleased to announce that United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has selected Manpower Software's MAPS Healthroster solution for electronic rostering of all their staff groups including Junior Doctors and Consultants, after a thorough evaluation of competitive offerings. The contract has been won as part of the framework agreement awarded last year by the NHS re:source Procurement Hub for the East Midlands region.

TORONTO, November 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Backed by Redknee's Roaming Recharge solution, KAMA KAWAIDA is Named Amongst the Best Pan-African Initiatives

Redknee (TSX: RKN; AIM: RKN), a leading provider of mission-critical software and solutions for communications service providers, congratulates the KAMA KAWAIDA alliance for being shortlisted for the Best Pan-African Initiative category at the AfricaCom Awards 2008. Based on Redknee's Roaming Recharge solution, KAMA KAWAIDA extends the concept of borderless roaming to allow subscribers to top-up their pre-paid accounts wherever they are within the roaming alliance, based on local currency and using local vouchers on their handset to top up. The Award winners will be announced on 18 November at AfricaCom in Cape Town.

LEUVEN, Belgium, November 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Results Continue to Support Microplasmin's Potential to Make a Major Contribution to the Treatment of Back of the eye Disease

ThromboGenics NV (Euronext Brussels: THR), a biotechnology company focused on eye disease, vascular disease and cancer, announces promising six month follow-up results from its Phase IIb MIVI III trial, which was designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of microplasmin in vitrectomy. The results were presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology in Atlanta, USA, by Dr. Kirk Packo, Professor and Chairman at the Department of Ophthalmology, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.

An article published electronically in the scientific journal Acta Paediatrica describes how heart rate and sleep in boys are affected by violent video games. Researchers from Stockholm University, Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have worked together with this study.

A recently discovered female pelvis is changing minds about the head size of an ancient human ancestor, Homo erectus, and consequently revising notions about how smart they may have been. The Pleistocene adult female Homo erectus pelvis was from the Busidima Formation of Gona, Afar, Ethiopia., not far from the site that yielded the 3.2 million year old remains of the famed Australopithecus afarensi "Lucy," and the pelvis indicates that Homo erectus, which lived in Africa roughly 2 million years ago, had a larger birth canal than originally suspected and could have given birth to babies with bigger brains.

An unusual microorganism discovered in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems.

A research team led by Jonathan Zehr, a marine scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, characterized the new microbe by analyzing its genetic material, even though researchers have not been able to grow it in the laboratory.  Zehr said the newly described organism seems to be an atypical member of the cyanobacteria, a group of photosynthetic bacteria formerly known as blue-green algae.

We are now in the transition from the Information Age to the Shift Age. In recent columns I have positioned the recent financial melt down and global economic collapse as the beginning of a painful transitional restructuring between ages. Just as the 1970s with all its stagflation and unprecedented turmoil was the transitional period between the Industrial Age and the Information Age, so is this time a transitional period between the Information Age and the Shift Age.

LOS ANGELES, November 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- H.H. Sheikh Khalid To Meet with Key Government Officials, Business Leaders and Dignitaries in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, to Build on a 'Pledge For Progress'

His Highness Sheikh Khalid bin Saqr Al Qasimi, The Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost Emirate of the United Arab Emirates, today launched a friendship tour through the United States where he will be meeting with key government officials, business leaders and dignitaries while participating in important political forums.

MADRID, Spain, November 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- SolFocus 1100S slated for medium- to large-scale installations

SolFocus today announced its latest Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) solution -- the SolFocus 1100S. This new CPV system achieves panel efficiencies of 25% resulting in systems which produce the highest energy density and highest energy yield of photovoltaic systems available today. SolFocus customer EMPE Solar will deploy the SolFocus 1100S in its recently announced 10 megawatt large-scale project, expected to be the largest deployment of CPV technology in Europe.

Autoimmune diseases are some of the most confounding diseases that affect the human body. Viruses, bacteria and parasites are all simple compared to the complexities and complications that arise when faced with treating an autoimmune disease. Researchers and physicians alike are unsure of the root of most autoimmune diseases and can only guess as to what specifically triggers our immune system to turn on itself. Treatment for most autoimmune diseases is brutal, consisting of high doses of steroids which suppress immune system function.