ROCKVILLE, Maryland, February 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- CJ Acquires Cur Stock for Rights to Spinal Cells in Future

LONDON, February 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Breakthroughs in Secure Information Sharing on the Agenda

At this year's Defence IT 08 conference, members of the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) will discuss issue and opportunities in secure information sharing in mission-critical environments, with an emphasis on how the obstacles are being overcome.

The session, moderated by John Taylor, Director General Information at the Ministry of Defence, will offer attendees a first-hand look at how organizations like BAE SYSTEMS, Rolls-Royce, the U.K. Ministry of Defence and the U.S. Department of Defense are working together on initiatives such as secure e-mail, identity federation, online collaboration and digital rights management.

PARIS, February 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Electrical and HVAC Engineering Group is Following a Robust Acquisitions Policy.

SPIE crossed a significant threshold in 2007 in its ambition to become the European leader in its sector by making two major acquisitions, Controlec in the Netherlands and Matthew Hall in the United Kingdom, as well as nine other companies in France, with total sales exceeding EUR600 million.

Strengthening SPIE's European presence

In Northern Europe, the acquisitions of Matthew Hall in the United Kingdom, Controlec in the Netherlands and Anca-Tech in the Benelux countries opens up new prospects for SPIE and has increased the share of sales generated outside France from 28% to 42%.

CHICAGO, February 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- New SAQ available in TrustKeeper(R) compliance management portal

Trustwave, the leading provider of information security and compliance management solutions for businesses and organizations throughout the world, has upgraded TrustKeeper with the new Self-assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) Version 1.1, issued by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) earlier this month. TrustKeeper, a Web-based, real-time compliance management tool used for compliance validation with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) by thousands of merchants and service providers throughout the world, is the first compliance management solution to support the new SAQ version 1.1.

You may not be aware of it - they might not be aware of it, but the people in your work environment might be slowing you down.

New research by University of Calgary, Faculty of Kinesiology researcher Dr. Tim Welsh says that regardless of their intentions, having an individual working on a different task - within your field of vision - could be enough to slow down your performance.

“Imagine a situation like a complex assembly line,” said Welsh If you are doing a particular task and the person across from you is doing a different task, you’ll be slowed down regardless of their performance.”

There are several human characteristics considered to be genetically predetermined and evolutionarily innate, such as immune system strength, physical adaptations and even sex differences. These qualities drive the nature versus nurture debate and ask of our species, who is more successful and why?

Psychologists Agneta Herlitz and Jenny Rehnman in Stockholm, Sweden asked an even more complicated question of human predisposition: Does one’s sex influence his or her ability to remember every day events? Their surprising findings did in fact determine significant sex differences in episodic memory, a type of long-term memory based on personal experiences, favoring women.

BOCA RATON, Florida, February 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Demand for independent information on the EB-5 Investor Visa pilot program has brought together a group of relocation, legal and currency experts offering unbiased advice on obtaining Green Cards in exchange for investment in the US economy

The possibility of generating hydrogen from sea water using sunlight energy is now one step closer, say scientists at Atmos Technologies. They claim to have successfully developed a completely new, environmentally friendly technique for the production of photo voltaic diodes at a lower cost and with a substantially lower carbon footprint than that created by conventional methods.

They say the hydrogen produced using their technology can be generated economically and efficiently and utilized either in fuel cells or in conventional engines as a replacement for petrol. Current techniques cost more in energy to generate the hydrogen than what is given out when the hydrogen is used.

Tiny particles of pure silica coated with an active material could be used to remove toxic chemicals, bacteria, viruses, and other hazardous materials from water much more effectively and at lower cost than conventional water purification methods, according to researchers writing in the International Journal of Nanotechnology.

Peter Majewski and Chiu Ping Chan of the Ian Wark Research Institute, at the University of South Australia, explain that the availability of drinking quality water is fast becoming a major socio-economic issue across the globe, especially in the developing world. However, water purification technology is often complicated, requires sophisticated equipment and is expensive to run and maintain. Moreover, it usually requires a final costly disinfection stage. The Australian team suggests that nanotechnology could provide a simple answer to the problem.

CONCORD, California, February 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Plans to Integrate Treatment Planning System with Oncology Solutions Technology

Siemens Healthcare (www.usa.siemens.com/healthcare) announces an exclusive partnership with Prowess Inc. to develop advanced radiation oncology treatment planning software for integration into Siemens' linear accelerators. The combination of Prowess' unique treatment planning system with Siemens' leading oncology solutions technology will help provide users with one of the most effective and reliable radiation therapy treatment solutions available in the market.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070904/SIEMENSLOGO )