CALABASAS, California, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- SunGard's AvantGard Receivables Solution Given Highest Score in Receivables & Collections Management Report

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

Quintiles Transnational Corp. today announced the appointment of Dipti Amin, M.D., as Senior Vice President of Strategic Research and Safety Services (SRS) and Medical and Regulatory Services, effective immediately. She will report to Jeff Thomis, President, Global Clinical Development Services.

BOSTON, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Study Includes 16 US, 15 European, 3 Canadian and 5 Asian Banks; Unprecedented Look at How World's Largest Publicly Traded Banks Are Addressing Global Warming

A first-ever comprehensive assessment of 40 of the world's largest banks on their handling of climate change risks and opportunities is the subject of a major new report to be released at 10 a.m. ET on January 10, 2008 by the Ceres investor coalition. Report authors used a "Climate Change Governance Index" to evaluate how 16 U.S. and 24 non-U.S. banks are addressing climate change through board oversight, management performance, public disclosure, greenhouse gas emissions management and strategic planning. Each of the 40 companies is given a 1- to 100-point score.

Donated, freeze-dried tendon grafts loaded with gene therapy may soon offer effective repair of injured tendons, a goal that has eluded surgeons to date.

According to study data published today in Molecular Therapy, a new graft technique may provide the first effective framework around which flexor tendon tissue can reorganize as it heals. Such tissue-engineering approaches could significantly improve repair of anterior cruciate ligaments and rotator cuffs as well, researchers said. The study was in a mouse model designed to resemble hard-to-repair flexor tendons in human hands, and the results should provide an impetus for future clinical trials.

VANCOUVER, Canada, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Seismic Proceeding to Define Drilling Locations in Conventional and Unconventional Opportunities

Canadian-based oil and gas explorer Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd. (TOPLF/OTCBB) is pleased to provide an activity update on its 100%-controlled onshore East Coast Basin project in New Zealand.

Waipawa-Whangai fractured shale source rock returns porosities of 22-30%

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- New strategic alliance with mosaic Global Executive Search to enhance search capabilities in Europe, Asia and Asia Pacific

The Cleantech Group(TM) today announced a strategic partnership between its executive search business, Cleantech Search(TM), and mosaic Global Executive Search.

The alliance will enable Cleantech Search to expand its executive search capabilities to international markets and leverage mosaic's global network, which includes Gillamor Stephens in Europe, Braithwaite Steiner Pretty in Asia Pacific as well as Mainstay Partners of Boston and LGES of San Francisco in the US.

DENVER, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) announces the opening of a SimSuite center in Germany. MSC has entered into an agreement with CardioSkills Company, headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. MSC and the CardioSkills team have partnered to provide an interventional skills training experience for physicians and their staff through the use of simulation education. Training experiences range from basic to complex procedures.

"MSC and CardioSkills -- that's professionalism meeting professionalism and the result is a new definition of quality and a new standard in medical education and simulation," said Dr. Erhard Kaiser, Founder of CardioSkills.

MANCHESTER, Connecticut, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

Vgo Software, Inc., a leading provider of software modernization solutions, today announces Futech, a professional software services firm, as a certified Vgo implementation partner and reseller of its Oracle Forms to Java/ADF conversion tool in the Middle East.

Futech will utilize Vgo's conversion tool, Evo(TM), to perform these conversions for the Middle Eastern Forms-user community in what will be called the MAGEC (Modernization and Automated Generation of Enhanced Code) model.

REDWOOD CITY, California, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions to help life science researchers generate insights from biological and chemical information, is pleased to announce that the Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium (PNDRC) has renewed and expanded its licensing agreement for access to the Ingenuity Pathways Analysis (IPA) software application, assisting the PNDRC's efforts to understand neuropsychiatric disorders. Consortium members will utilize the newest release of IPA to illustrate significant differences in gene expression and to determine impact in neuronal pathways, circuits, and target systems.

LEEDS, England, January 8 /PRNewswire/ -- World-leading pallet and container pooling company CHEP has awarded Masternaut a GBP 300,000 contract to supply its satellite tracking service for a major pilot programme based in the UK. There is potential to install 1000 articulated vehicles with mobile collection units giving CHEP a comprehensive real-time view of its European fleet using the innovative Masternaut web-based satellite-tracking service.