LONDON, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Level Four, the provider of open standards-based ATM software, today announced its partnership with TietoEnator Italia S.p.A., an established provider of IT services to deliver BRIDGE:test to financial institutions in Italy. The partnership offers a best-of-breed ATM network testing solution which combines Level Four's advanced testing software with Tieto's IT consulting and implementation capabilities. The agreement provides Level Four with an additional route to market for BRIDGE:test in Italy and supports Tieto's commitment to expanding its offering for the financial services sector.

As an ethical hedonist, the 18th-19th-century English utilitarian philosopher and proto-bleeding-heart-liberal Jeremy Bentham, believed that right and wrong could be determined by weighing the “pleasures” and “pains” of any given action, with an action that produced more pleasure than pain being morally right.

While this would be great by itself (in a geeky kind of way), what makes it truly spectacular is the fact that Bentham actually created an algorithm to define exactly how much pleasure and pain an action would cause. (His application of algebra to life decisions is echoed by at least one complete whack-job modern author…)

LEIDEN, The Netherlands, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dutch Orphan Disease Registry Consortium is set up in order to build a disease registry framework to collect information on rare diseases, encourage drug development and optimize patient care. The consortium focuses on inborn errors of metabolism as target group of diseases.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, April 6 /PRNewswire/ --

Expanding therapeutic areas are creating significant opportunities for growth within the Kenyan pharmaceutical industry. Although infectious diseases are still responsible for the largest burden of disease in Kenya, non-communicable diseases are becoming a major problem, with the incidence of type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer increasing rapidly.

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa, April 6 /PRNewswire/ --

West Africa urgently needs additional power generation capacities to meet the rising and suppressed demand for power. The region has abundant natural resources, which power producers can easily transform into energy.

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New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.energy.frost.com), Investment Opportunities for Independent Power Producers in West Africa, finds that perceptive independent power producers (IPPs) can identify countries with secure sources of fuel and lower political risks that offer lucrative opportunities. The next few years will see the emergence of a strong market for new turbines and opportunities for refurbishing old existing plants.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, April 6 /PRNewswire/ --

As the South African mineral and mining industry has expanded in recent years, the related mineral and mining chemicals markets have enjoyed steady growth. However, the global economic downturn has had a severe impact on mining activity, and this has in turn decreased the demand for chemicals in this sector.

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AMSTERDAM, April 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- SLA Centennial Observance Honors Cell, The Lancet and Other Key Elsevier Journals

Twenty journals published by Elsevier (many on behalf of renowned societies) have been nominated for the Special Library Association's (SLA) Top 100 Journals in Biology and Medicine. The Top 100 list is compiled by the 680-plus members of the Biomedical and Life Sciences Division (DBIO) on the most influential journals in biology and medicine over the last 100 years. The Journal of the Century and the winners of this prestigious award will be announced on Tuesday, June 16th, at the Centennial Conference of the Special Libraries Association in Washington DC.

ATLANTA and PARIS, April 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Digital Element's IP Intelligence Helps European Seismological Organization Accurately Identify Affected Locations in Less Than 10 Minutes

By tracking the number of hits to its website after an earthquake, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) (http://www.emsc-csem.org/), based in Arpajon, France, can accurately measure the impact of the event, in near real time. EMSC is using Digital Element's IP (http://www.digital-element.net/) Intelligence technology (http://www.digital-element.net/our_technology/our_technology.html) to accurately detect the areas affected by an earthquake based on the geographic location of each site visitor.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Hult International Business School (http://hult.edu/), the world's first global business school, announced today that it is offering its MBA program alumni a unique opportunity to maintain their business knowledge throughout their careers. Going forward the school has taken the unprecedented step of giving all of its 4,500 MBA degree holders the option of returning regularly to join elective classes for free.

Hult graduates can take one MBA elective course per year for the rest of their career. They will receive a certificate for each elective course completed.

LONDON, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Digiterre, leading provider of software products and enterprise software development services to the investment management community, today congratulates Man Investments on winning the Best use of business-to-business ecommerce category at the Financial Sector Technology Awards 2009.

The award comes as a result of a partnership between Digiterre and Man Investments to develop a trading system to support Man's new secondary market business.