LAS VEGAS, Nevada, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Chip PC new, Expandable Linux-based Platforms Feature Domain Authentication and Active-Directory Management in a Linux-based OS, Tight Security, Local Browser and a Truly Rich Multimedia Experience

SINGAPORE, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Singapore-based NanoMaterials Technology Pte Ltd ("NMT"), announced today that it has appointed Dr Frank U. Floether to its Scientific Advisory Board ("SAB").

VIENNA, Austria, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Microsoft BizTalk Server to help reduce risk and time for securities workflow between ING and its settlement counterparty.

SINGAPORE, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Carbon Trading and Green Initiatives Revving Up in MENA Region

Eight months after world leaders met in Bali to chart the course to a low-carbon world, green initiative like carbon trading are gaining ground in a region long associated with Big Oil. The World Carbon Emission Reduction Summit in Abu Dhabi, unthinkable until recently, now attracts international heavyweights such as the World Bank, UNFCCC and UNEP FI CCWG.

"The level of interest we are currently witnessing is very encouraging," says Bjorn Tore Urdal, Senior Equity Analyst (Energy) at Sustainable Asset Management. He predicts, "Undoubtedly, the Middle East will develop itself as a main hub for capital allocation into the low carbon economy."

DALLAS, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Entrust and Slovenia to demonstrate interoperability during ePassports EAC Conformity & Interoperability Tests in Prague

After successful deployment of their first-generation ePassport solution in 2006, Slovenia again has selected Entrust, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) to facilitate their government's migration to a second-generation ePassport solution based on the Extended Access Control (EAC) standard. With this, Slovenia becomes one of the first countries in the world to announce its migration to second-generation ePassports.

The next major advance in computer processors will be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running at 1.4 gigahertz at the University of Rochester.

Unlike past attempts at 3-D chips, the Rochester chip is not simply a number of regular processors stacked on top of one another. It was designed and built specifically to optimize all key processing functions vertically, through multiple layers of processors, the same way ordinary chips optimize functions horizontally. The design means tasks such as synchronicity, power distribution, and long-distance signaling are all fully functioning in three dimensions for the first time.

When we hear somebody described as “frosty” or “cold”, we automatically picture a person who is unfriendly and antisocial. There are numerous examples in our daily language of metaphors which make a connection between cold temperatures and emotions such as loneliness, despair and sadness.

We are taught at a young age that metaphors are meant to be descriptive and are not supposed to be taken literally but recent studies suggest that these metaphors are more than just fancy literary devices and that there is a psychological basis for linking cold with feelings of social isolation.

The recent dramatic melting and breakup of a few huge Greenland glaciers have fueled public concerns over the impact of global climate change, but that isn't the island's biggest problem.

A new study shows that the dozens of much smaller outflow glaciers dotting Greenland's coast together account for three times more loss from the island's ice sheet than the amount coming from their huge relatives.

In a study just published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, scientists at Ohio State University reported that nearly 75 percent of the loss of Greenland ice can be traced back to small coastal glaciers.

Minutes after having sexual intercourse with her boyfriend, a 35-year-old woman suddenly felt her left arm go weak. Her speech became slurred and she lost feeling on the left side of her face.

She had suffered a stroke and the conclusion was that the stroke probably was due to several related factors, including birth control pills, a venous blood clot, sexual intercourse and a heart defect. Doctors at Loyola University Medical Center describe the unusual case in the Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease.

Birth control pills slightly increase the risk of blood clots. Doctors believe a small clot formed in one of the veins in her thigh, broke loose and traveled to the right atrium (the heart's upper right pumping chamber). Normally in such cases, the clot will get pumped out of the right atrium and travel to the lungs, where it may harmlessly dissolve.