MILAN, Italy and FREMONT, California, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Silicon Valley and Canada Presence Expanding Customer Reach Outside Europe as Part of Accent's Strategic Growth Plan - ASIC and IP Veteran Graeme Finlayson Joining Accent as the New SVP of WW Sales

Accent S.A., a leading fabless ASIC provider offering highly differentiated design and turnkey services for state-of-the-art SoC silicon solutions, today announced the opening of its North America operations, with new office locations in the Silicon Valley (USA) and in Ottawa (Canada). At the same time Graeme Finlayson has joined Accent's executive team as the new VP of WW Sales.

ATLANTA, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- New release streamlines and centralizes the view of your workload infrastructure

Stonebranch(TM), Inc., the innovation leader in Enterprise Systems Management, today announced the 3.2 release of its Universal Solutions Suite(TM). The 3.2 release gives Stonebranch clients a Single System Image(TM) approach to their IT infrastructure, streamlining their workload solutions and centralizing the view of all workload management activities through its Enterprise Execution Environment(TM).

New imaging research shows that brain activity differs in sleep-deprived and well-rested people. The study, in the May 21 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, shows that individuals who are sleep-deprived experience periods of near-normal brain function, but these periods are interspersed with severe drops in attention and visual processing.

They have shown for the first time what happens to the visual perceptions of healthy but sleep-deprived volunteers who fight to stay awake, like people who try to drive through the night. The scientists found that even after sleep deprivation, people had periods of near-normal brain function in which they could finish tasks quickly. However, this normalcy mixed with periods of slow response and severe drops in visual processing and attention.

During imaging, participants did a task that required visual attention. Researchers showed them large letters composed of many smaller letters. Participants were asked to identify either the large or small letters and to indicate their responses by pushing a button.

Using data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft and two telescopes on or near Earth, an international team of scientists has found that one of the solar system’s largest and newest storms – Jupiter’s Little Red Spot – has some of the highest wind speeds ever detected on any planet.

Jupiter’s "LRS" is an anticyclone, a storm whose winds circulate in the opposite direction to that of a cyclone – counterclockwise, in this case. It is nearly the size of Earth and as red as the similar, but larger and more well known, Great Red Spot (GRS). The dramatic evolution of the LRS began with the merger of three smaller white storms that had been observed since the 1930s. Two of these storms coalesced in 1998, and the combined pair merged with a third major Jovian storm in 2000. In late 2005 -- for reasons still unknown -- the combined storm turned red.

REHOVOT, Israel and NORTH BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Diagnostic Test Based on Company's microRNA Technology Submitted for Regulatory Approval to the New York State Department of Health by Columbia University Medical Center - Additional West Coast Clinical Laboratory to Validate and Offer Tests Based on Rosetta Genomics' microRNA Technology - Two Additional microRNA-Related Patents Allowed

Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. (NASDAQ: ROSG), a leading molecular diagnostics company, reported today its consolidated financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 and business highlights.

Researchers from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have unveiled unveiling a grasshopper-inspired jumping robot that weighs a miniscule 7 grams but can jump 1.4 meters - more than 27 times its body size. That's ten times farther for its size and weight than any existing jumping robot.

These jumpers could be fitted out with tiny sensors to explore rough, inaccessible terrain or to aid in search and rescue operations. "This biomimetic form of jumping is unique because it allows micro-robots to travel over many types of rough terrain where no other walking or wheeled robot could go," explains EPFL Professor Dario Floreano. "These tiny jumping robots could be fitted with solar cells to recharge between jumps and deployed in swarms for extended exploration of remote areas on Earth or on other planets."

SAN JOSE, California, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industrial Software Technology to Provide Java Solutions to Increase Development Productivity for AVR32 AP7 Series

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and Industrial Software Technology(TM) S.A. announced today the industry's most integrated solutions to design Java applications for embedded systems. Based on a cleanroom implementation of a Java(R) Virtual Machine called MicroJvm(R), the first product of the MicroJvm family specifically targeted for AVR(R)32 cores offers a bare-metal virtual machine with a small memory footprint (65 Kbytes), a high speed engine (up to 3 times faster than common Java engines) and optimized software library bundles.

BIRMINGHAM, England, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Environment and Energy Awards Recognise Semplice Eco|Solutions for Addressing Hybridised Energy Saving and Clean Energy Generation to Make Sustainability Financially Viable

Semplice Energy Limited, a leading provider of CleanTech energy solutions to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions, were awarded the consultancy award for sustainable cleanup at the Environment and Energy awards held at the ICC in Birmingham last night.

A "CatCam” that captures feline-centric video of a forest and a new mathematical model are two elements of a new effort to explain how the brain’s visual circuitry processes real scenes.

The new model of the neural responses of a major visual-processing brain region promises to significantly advance understanding of vision.

The researchers sought to develop the new model because until now, studies of the visual system have used simple stimuli such as dots, bars and gratings.

HAIFA, Israel, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) ("Oil Refineries" or the "Company") announced today its financial results for three months ending March 31, 2008.

The following reports are accounted for under IFRS is US dollars. During the first quarter of 2008 the Company expanded its segment reporting and, in addition to the segments reported, the Company added a Trade sector. The Company is implementing its strategic plan in all areas of activity.