LONDON, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading Science and Technology Broadcaster Dr Adam Hart-Davis Lends Full Support to Campaign

A campaign begun by independent engineers in the letters page of Engineering Technology Magazine, and covered by a full investigation in the new issue, has led to calls for safety socket covers to be banned in the UK as an unnecessary drain on parents' resources and a potentially lethal addition to any home.

The potential dangers of using safety socket covers was originally highlighted by Peter M Munro in the May 2008 issue of Engineering Technology (ET) which led to the formation of FatallyFlawed - by a group of qualified engineers, doctors and child-care specialists - as a vehicle to campaign against plug-in socket covers.

LONDON, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

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A new study from Salford University has shown us exactly why wearing FitFlop sandals can help provide...

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HELSINKI, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Wärtsilä has received another major order from Pakistan. The order was placed by Liberty Power Tech Ltd. which is an independent power producer (IPP). The value of the contract is approximately EUR 137 million. The total gross electrical power output of the power plant is 200 MWe and the plant will be located near Faisalabad some 200 km west from Lahore.

The power plant is due to be commissioned in December 2010 and it will supply electricity to the country's national grid. This order follows three other IPP projects signed by Wärtsilä in 2007 and 2008. Including these last four orders the total generating capacity delivered by Wärtsilä to Pakistan will exceed 1700 MWe.

WAALWIJK, The Netherlands, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology company IAI industrial systems in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, a subsidiary of the stock listed company DOCDATA N.V. in Waalwijk, the Netherlands, will supply three BookMaster One systems for the personalisation of passports to a non-European country.

The principal of IAI industrial systems will acquire the systems within the framework of an order from the country's government. At request of the country concerned, no further details can be disclosed at this stage.

MONTREAL, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

North Side Inc., of Montreal, will unveil a prototype of its Bot Colony(TM) title (www.botcolony.com ) at GDC in San Francisco on March 25 - 27 (booth 5016 NH). Bot Colony(TM) is the first game ever where the player can converse with the characters in English. The language used is completely unrestricted: the player simply speaks and the characters answer naturally using speech, asking questions, seeking clarifications or offering comments in return. During this interaction, the characters learn new concepts and facts from the player, and use them immediately in the game.

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TOKYO, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

On March 21, 2009, at a graduation ceremony at Soka University in Hachioji, Tokyo, University College South of Denmark conferred an honorary doctorate upon Daisaku Ikeda, founder of Soka University and president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), bringing to 250 the number of academic honors he has received.

AUSTIN, Texas, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- http://www.arrivedok.mobi Announces Public Beta Testing

ArrivedOK (http://www.arrivedok.mobi/hello), the personal flight arrival tracker, is now open for public beta testing. The service lets air passengers automatically notify others about their arrival to airports worldwide by SMS, email, via weblogs or Twitter, and enables users to save on international roaming charges.

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LONDON, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

The 2008 European Tissue Sealants Topical Hemostats Product Differentiation Innovation Award is conferred on Nycomed in recognition of its revolutionary product - TachoSil. The innovative surgical patch, TachoSil is poised to be the future of the European tissue sealants and topical hemostats markets.

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At present, Nycomed, with TachoSil, is the sole company in the market with a ready-to-use dual action patch. TachoSil is unique: it does not fit into any of the standard market segments and constitutes a separate category on its own.

LONDON, March 23 /PRNewswire/ --

Medical images are increasingly becoming digitised. However, the exponential growth of digitised medical images poses an immense challenge in terms of management, compression and retrieval. It is essential that image archive storage solution providers, picture archiving and communication system (PACS) vendors and image modality manufacturers become aware of the growing requirements of storage space.

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LONDON, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to the announcement by the BBC, that many university chancellors would like to see increases in tuition fees by between GBP5,000 and GBP20,000 a year, leading Child Trust Fund (CTF) Provider, The Children's Mutual (http://www.thechildrensmutual.co.uk/) has calculated that families may have to find GBP49,900 if youngsters decide to go to university in 18 years time.

David White, Chief Executive of The Children's Mutual comments: What is clear from the research is that the cost of university is only going to increase, it's just a case of by how much. Any parent thinking about sending their child to university in the future will ideally plan how they are going to help fund it and that plan has to be formulated now.