LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Hikma Pharmaceuticals today announced strong revenue growth and stable net profits despite a loss at the company's US Generics business. The weakness in the US was offset by a strong performance from the multinational Pharma company's Injectable and Branded businesses. CEO, Said Darwazah, said The US operations, in 2007, reported operating profit of about $30m and in 2008 we had a loss there so in spite of this $30m plus loss the other divisions, the Branded and the Injectables, performed so well, grew so much that they were able to offset that.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --
blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that its senior vice president of Business Development, Federico Grosso, will be speaking at the 2009 Media Summit Conference at the McGraw-Hill Building in New York City at 2:15 p.m. E.T. on March 18th. Grosso will be presenting on a panel titled, Video Advertising: How New Consumer Habits are Driving the Advertising Community to Innovate, and the Challenges with Scale.
LUCCA, Italy and LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --
- Local Agreement Signed for a Global Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Financial Governance Solution
Tagetik, a global provider of Corporate Performance Management and Financial Governance software solutions, today announced its integration with Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft's Business Intelligence Platform. The announcement follows a comprehensive review of Microsoft's Business Intelligence roadmap, aiming to provide companies with well-known application tools such as SharePoint technologies, SQL Server and Office 2007 to support their decision making.
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I have a curious mind and like to find out how and why things work. Unlike my husband and my two boys, I don’t necessarily take things apart to uncover how they operate (what is it with the Y chromosome and the inherent need to do this?) – instead, I’m more of a look-it-up-and-research-it type of girl. Thank goodness for Google.
At the same time, there are some of life’s mysteries that I am happy to accept. I don’t really understand how volume control works. I mean, I know it has something to do with sound waves and amplitude – but all I really know is when I turn the knob up, I can suddenly hear my movie again over the ruckus of the kids. Mystery of how to hear the ending of “Stardust” while the boys play destruction derby in the other room – solved. **
They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are? Yes, say UCLA researchers.
In a Journal of Neuroscience study, UCLA neurology professor Paul Thompson and colleagues used a new type of brain-imaging scanner to show that intelligence is strongly influenced by the quality of the brain's axons, or wiring that sends signals throughout the brain. The faster the signaling, the faster the brain processes information. And since the integrity of the brain's wiring is influenced by genes, the genes we inherit play a far greater role in intelligence than was previously thought.
The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard. In the morning, the bricks will be covered with snow and barely discernible. The snowflakes will have filled every vacant space between and around the bricks.
What you will see, says Ivan Biaggio, an associate professor of physics at Lehigh University, resembles a phenomenon that, when it occurs at the smallest of scales on an integrated optical circuit, could hasten the day when the Internet works at superfast speeds.
NASA scientists analyzing the dust of meteorites say they have discovered new clues to a long-standing mystery about how life works on its most basic, molecular level.
Over the last four years, the team carefully analyzed samples of meteorites with an abundance of carbon, called carbonaceous chondrites. The researchers looked for the amino acid isovaline and discovered that three types of carbonaceous meteorites had more of the left-handed version than the right-handed variety – as much as a record 18 percent more in the often-studied Murchison meteorite.
Eating dog meat is common in Asia. In two case studies published by PLoS Medicine, researchers analyzed situations in Hanoi where men died from laboratory-confirmed rabies.
The first patient was a 48-year-old male construction worker, with no preceding medical illnesses who was, among other symptoms, unable to swallow due to involuntary inspiratory muscle spasms. The second patient was a 37-year-old male farmer, without any prior medical history and similar symptoms.
The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters today announced the results of its annual roundup of the hottest researchers and research papers. In its March/April issue of Science Watch, Thomson Reuters identified the top 13 authors who fielded the highest numbers of Hot Papers in 2007-2008 as well as the most-cited research papers of 2008.
"Our annual list of those authoring multiple Hot Papers serves to highlight researchers who are leading modern scientific thought," said Christopher King, editor of Science Watch.
COPENHAGEN and ISTANBUL, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- From golf courses to books, olive oil to vaccinations, all the goods and services that we rely on, together with many of our daily activities, require a vital resource: water. A new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) confirms that in many parts of Europe water use is unsustainable and provides recommendations for a new approach to managing water resources.
