SAN DIEGO, June 19 /PRNewswire/ --

With food prices going up, farmers are getting wealthy (or wealthier, in the case of the big conglomerates), right? Not outside the US, according to a study in Economic Development and Cultural Change by Marcel Fafchamps(1) and Ruth Vargas Hill(2).

In their new study for look to the long-time coffee producing nation of Uganda to attempt to answer the riddle of why higher prices don't 'trickle down' in other countries, even if they are modern liberalized economies.

Coffee is the world's largest agricultural commodity, and is also one of the world's most volatile. Large global coffee price fluctuations mean coffee has seen many periods of rapidly increasing prices. But new research shows that when global coffee prices rise, farmers do not see the same rise in the price they receive.

ROSEAU, Commonwealth of Dominica, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuftec Limited, the proprietor of the original nano-particulate cerium oxide fuel catalyst technology, which recently issued a claim against Oxonica Energy Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxonica PLC, for infringement of its European Patent in the High Court of Justice, has commented on a fundamental inaccuracy in Oxonica's AGM Statement issued by Dr Matthews (CEO) on 19 June 2008.

Dr Kevin Matthews stated in the recent Regulatory Announcement that:

"In 2007 Neuftec acknowledged that Envirox as supplied by Nyacol, Oxonica's strategic partner, does not fall within the claims of their granted patent, EP(UK) 1299 508."

TOKYO, June 19 /PRNewswire/ --

The 8th United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland has unanimously approved a resolution tabled by Japan, entitled "Elimination of Discrimination Against Persons Affected by Leprosy and their Family Members." 58 countries, including China, have co-sponsored the resolution. The resolution is the result of repeated appeals on the issue by Nippon Foundation Chairman Yohei Sasakawa.

LOS ANGELES, California, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Canopus BioPharma, Inc. (OTC: CBIA), has confirmed the efficacy of its oncology candidate, CB1400, as a tumor reducing agent and has also demonstrated the synergistic effect of this drug in combination with both cisplatin and cetuximab (Erbitux) in two mice lung cancer models.

Chairman of Canopus BioPharma, Dr. Patrick Prendergast, stated, "We at Canopus are encouraged with the discovery of this new use for CB1400 to increase efficacy and reduce toxicity issues associated with conventional chemotherapeutic agents."

When six day care centers imposed a fine on parents who picked their children up late, tardiness doubled and it stayed high even when the fine was removed.

How can it be that a financial penalty made the problem worse? Parents, it seems, stopped seeing lateness as an imposition on teachers, and instead saw it as something that could be purchased with no moral failing.

A basic tenet of economics is that people always behave selfishly, or as the 18th century philosopher economist David Hume put it, "every man ought to be supposed to be a knave."

Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation.

The ice core showed the Northern Hemisphere briefly emerged from the last ice age some 14,700 years ago with a 22-degree-Fahrenheit spike in just 50 years, then plunged back into icy conditions before abruptly warming again about 11,700 years ago. Startlingly, the Greenland ice core evidence showed that a massive "reorganization" of atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere coincided with each temperature spurt, with each reorganization taking just one or two years, said the study authors.

The new findings are expected to help scientists improve existing computer models for predicting future climate change as increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the atmosphere drive up Earth's temperatures globally.

Firing someone? Do it on Friday because they would have the weekend off anyway and they are less likely to show up after two days with a rifle. Some things don't change.

But the 'Friday Effect' for publicly traded companies has diminished with the advent of instant news so they have little to gain from saving bad news until Fridays on the assumption that traders are distracted by the approaching weekend, says economist Leon Zolotoy in his research, for which he will be awarded a PhD at Tilburg University in the Netherlands on 25 June.

Zolotoy researched how international stock markets react to new information. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was introduced in July 2002, partly as a result of the corporate scandals involving Global Crossing, WorldCom, Enron and Tyco. The Act’s strict disclosure requirements were designed to restore investors’ and analysts’ confidence in the stock market.

LONDON, June 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading Provider of Web 2.0 Solutions for Financial Institutions and Gaming Organisations Enhance Technology Lead

Push Technology Ltd today announced the immediate commercial release of Diffusion 2.0, a real-time push engine, enhancing its product portfolio of Web 2.0 solutions.

The new market-leading release enables organisations such as financial institutions, on-line gaming companies, spread betting organisations, travel agents and news feed providers to greatly improve their customers user experience by providing real-time, compelling data in a format that requires no browser add-ins or specialist client implementation.

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BANGKOK, Thailand, June 19 /PRNewswire/ --

CMP Media (Thailand) Co Ltd, and the Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) jointly announced the success of the recently concluded INTERMACH 2008 and SUBCON THAILAND 2008 machinery exhibition which attracted over 35,000 local and foreign visitors and produced combined transaction values of over 4.2 billion baht.

In spite of doom and gloom predictions, the 2008 exhibition turned out to be one of the most successful ever as the combined forces of INTERMACH and SUBCON THAILAND joined to forge new business opportunities across the board. The show's outstanding success bodes well for Thai industry which should continue to thrive and stimulate the country's overall economy.