REHOVOT, Israel and JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, August 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Study Will Correlate the Results of Rosetta Genomics' MicroRNA-Based CUP Assay With Diagnostic Work Conducted at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

- Data on the Company's MicroRNA-Based CUP Assay and its High Sensitivity and Accuracy was Recently Published in the April Issue of Nature Biotechnology

Researchers have tackled the problem of cooperation (and the related one of the evolution of altruism) for some time now. Initial game theory models suggested that cooperative animals would quickly be supplanted by selfish ones because of a cost to cooperation, as in the the so-called simple prisoners’ dilemma. In these situations, typically an individual can choose between an action that benefits everyone, but at a cost to oneself, and an action that clearly benefits the individual, but comes at the risk of greater loss if everyone adopts that strategy. It turns out that most of us would rather lose than share, a sad but to many not surprising commentary on the human condition. However, people eventually realized that cooperation makes the most sense in social groups, where phenomena such as kin and reciprocal altruism can take place. Sure enough, if the prisoners’ dilemma game is played iteratively, instead of in just one round, and if the players are allowed to keep track of what other players are doing (i.e., to build “reputations”) then it turns out that cooperating, even at a certain cost to oneself, is the winning long-term strategy.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Marketers Can Buy Online and Print Advertising Direct Beginning September 2

TechInsights, the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry's decision makers, today announced TechInsights Direct, the first online portal that enables technology marketers to search, analyze, buy and manage online and print advertising programs from EE Times, Embedded Systems Design and TechOnline. TechInsights Direct is powered by Balihoo, the leading provider of advertising productivity tools, and will launch September 2 at www.techinsights.com/direct .

TOKYO, Japan, August 11 /PRNewswire/ -- HOYA Corporation today announced financial results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2008. Net sales were 130.1 billion yen for the quarter, representing an increase of 33.1% from 97.7 billion yen in the first quarter of 2007.

Operating income for the quarter was 21.8 billion yen, a 3.5% decrease compared with 22.6 billion yen in the first quarter of 2007. Net income for the first quarter was 21.1 billion yen, a 24.0% increase compared with 17.0 billion yen in the first quarter of 2007, primarily due to profits on sale of NH Techno Glass stocks, HOYA's equity method affiliate. Earnings per share for the quarter were 48.97 yen compared with 39.61 yen in the first quarter of 2007.

BERLIN, August 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Exceptional Performance Makes it the Solution of Choice for Data Centres

Corning Cable Systems LLC, part of Corning Incorporated's (NYSE:GLW) Telecommunications segment, announces that its FutureCom(TM) 10TENe System exceeds international ISO/IEC 11801:2002 Amd1:2008 and American ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-10-CAT6A system standards requirements.

NEW DELHI, August 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Plans to Develop Eco-Friendly Projects in India

Falcon Realty Services Private Limited (FRSPL), a company actively involved in Land acquisition and Land consolidation in India for over two decades, has enlarged its business scope by entering Real Estate development in a big way.

FRSPL plans to bring the best in class Eco-Friendly Real Estate Projects, create strong infrastructure and support varied developments in and around Industrial hubs. FRSPL and its group companies specializes in conceptualizing , formulating designing and executing various real estate projects including Townships, Group Housings, Corporate Buildings, IT Parks, Bio Tech Parks, Knowledge Parks, Medi City, Sports City, Hotels and Cultural Parks.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Packages deliver automated File Integrity Compliance and Point of Sale configuration auditing

LONDON, August 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading Middle East Institution Extends Longstanding Misys Relationship With Market Leading Functionality for Shari'a Compliant Commercial Retail Operations

Arab Bank, the first private sector financial institution in the Arab World, with offices throughout the Middle East, has gone live with the Misys Equation Islamic solution at its offices in Qatar. The move gives the Amman-based bank unmatched Corporate Islamic banking capabilities, and greatly enhances the bank's offering to the fast-growing Islamic banking community in Qatar. The intention is now to roll out the solution across its operations in the GCC.

DUBLIN, August 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Commercial Imaging Lab to Offer Quantitative Coronary Angiographic Analysis With Integrated eCRF

ICON plc (NASDAQ: ICLR; ISIN:IE0005711209), a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today announced that its Medical Imaging division has become the first commercial imaging core laboratory to offer Quantitative Coronary Angiographic (QCA) analysis with an integrated electronic Case Report Form (eCRF).

The victory stance of a gold medalist and the slumped shoulders of a non-finalist are innate and biological rather than learned responses to success and failure, according to a University of British Columbia study using cross-cultural data gathered at the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

In the first study of its kind, UBC psychology researcher Jessica Tracy investigated how pride and shame are expressed across cultures, and among the congenitally blind. She compared the non-verbal expressions and body language of sighted, blind, and congenitally blind judo competitors representing more than 30 countries, among them Algeria, Taiwan, North Korea, the Ukraine and the United States.