ARNHEM, The Netherlands, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international design, consulting, engineering and management services company, announces today that the Annual Report 2008 is now available digitally on the company website: http://www.arcadis-global.com.

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- IKIVO Picked Among Most Promising Technology Ventures by Innovative Listing

IKIVO, the No. 1 European supplier of rich media client solutions, has been selected as a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Europe 2009 award. The award is given to the top 100 private technology companies based in Europe, the Middle East and Africa each year.

We are honoured to be among the finalists for the Red Herring 100 Europe 2009 award. This is a reflection of our achievements in the past year, focusing our efforts on producing groundbreaking technology such as interactive mobile widgets, innovative user interfaces and rich media applications, says Huw W. Hampson-Jones, CEO of IKIVO.

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The '2008 European Telemedicine Systems for Cardiac Monitoring Product Innovation of the Year Award' is presented to SHL Telemedicine Ltd. in recognition of its next generation personal ECG device - the CardioSen'C(TM). This full 12 lead ECG personal digital cellular transmitter is a monitoring system that uses either cellular network (GPRS) or public switched telephone network (PSTN) to transmit real-time medical cardiological data remotely. It effectively fulfils the need for an end-user friendly system.

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- Target-Ad(TM), an intelligent foundation service, brings a better user experience and added value to publishers

Arti-Media, a company that brings ingenuity to video monetization, announces Target-Ad a solution that embeds advertising in online video content meeting IAB standards.

Through advanced behavioral and video content analysis technologies, Arti-Media's Target-Ad is able to increase advertising inventory, its effectiveness, and adds profitability to online video publishers while simultaneously limiting intrusiveness for the viewer.

VELDEN, Austria, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Good news for everyone who loses their keys: The European company Globalquickback offers its customers unique world-wide protection against the loss of their property, in 234 countries. With a free hotline and free return delivery - often within 24 hours!

With all the "bro's" and "ho's" we hear about in the rap world, I think it's safe to say that as a society, we all agree that the rap industry could use a drastic image change.  Furthermore, if that image change could include an educational aspect, then that would definitely be beneficial for our children. 

Just imagine, all the cool and funky beats of rap music coupled with the wholesome words we use in science class.  What a concept!  And please, don't be hatin' on me because you didn't think of it first.

Just before dawn on Oct. 7, 2008, an SUV-sized asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded harmlessly over the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan. Scientists expected the asteroid, called 2008 TC3, had blown to dust in the resulting high-altitude fireball. 

What happened next excited the scientific community. 

Peter Jenniskens, a meteor astronomer with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who works at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., joined Muawia Shaddad of the University of Khartoum in Sudan to search for possible extraterrestrial remnants from the asteroid.

It wouldn't seem logical today that big predators are at the greatest risk for extinction, but they are, and a group of researchers sees a number of similarities between extinctions of 65 million years ago and today.

Studies of modern fishes demonstrate that large body size is linked to large prey size and low rates of population growth, while fast-closing jaws appear to be adaptations for capturing agile, evasive prey—in other words, other fishes. The fossil record provides some remarkable evidence supporting these estimates of function: fossil fishes with preserved stomach contents that record their last meals.

Autism is a complex developmental disability that affects a person's ability to communicate and interact with others. It usually appears during the first three years of life. Autism is called a "spectrum disorder" since it affects individuals differently and to varying degrees. It is estimated that one in every 150 American children has some degree of autism.

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have proposed a new hypothesis about autism, suggesting that the brains of people with autism are structurally normal but dysregulated - meaning symptoms of the disorder might be reversible. 

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University say they have discovered a process that controls the amount of fat that cells store for use as a back-up energy source. Disruption of this process allows cellular fat to accumulate — a key factor in age-related metabolic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes.