HAIFA, Israel, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Stage Expected to Add Roughly 120,000 Tons of Diesel and Kerosene per Annum

Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) (the Company), Israel's largest oil refiner, announced today that it has activated the first stage of its Mild Hydrocracking unit. The first stage is expected to increase Diesel and Kerosene (Jet Fuel) production by over 1.5%, contributing an additional 120 thousand tons of produced middle distillates per annum. The second stage of the Mild Hydrocracker is expected to become operational in the third quarter of 2010 and to increase the Company's Diesel and Kerosene production capacity by a further 1.5%. The total expected investment cost in both these stages is approximately US$62 million.

AMSTERDAM, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Allows Institutions to Optimize Strategic Funding, Hiring and Collaboration Decisions

Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of SciVal Spotlight, a customized web-based tool that offers institutions a unique multidisciplinary perspective of research performance to evaluate, establish and execute more informed research strategies.

NEW YORK, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Globalpark ( http://www.globalpark.com ), a leading provider of panel, community and survey software, today launches the latest version of its Enterprise Feedback Suite (EFS). EFS 7.0 ( http://www.globalpark.com/EFS7 ) enables researchers to turn research panels into communities, and includes enhanced performance, engagement and quality features. This new version will enable organizations to gain greater insight into customers, employees and partners, to drive new product innovation and extend loyalty, revenue and reach.

New community features; improved respondent engagement

BOZEN , Italy, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Health-Robotics today announced that it has signed an exclusive 5-year strategic partnership with Grifols S.A., the leading Pharmacy Automation provider in Spain, Portugal, and South America. Grifols desires to safely, accurately, and cost-effectively automate the preparation of non-hazardous IV Admixtures with Health Robotics' i.v.STATION Robot. As part of this strategic partnership, Grifols will take delivery of 120 i.v.STATION Robots between now and December 2014 for deployment in Spain, Portugal, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Surinam, Guyana, Belize, and French Guyana.

SUNNYVALE, California, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Zscaler, Inc., the market leader in cloud-delivered multi-tenant Security as a Service (SaaS), today announced the immediate availability of Safe Search for Microsoft Corp.'s newly-released Decision Engine, Bing. With a Safe Search solution like Zscaler's, companies can further enforce appropriate access to Web content--including explicit images and videos. Without properly controlling access to search content, organizations invite risk and liability. And whereas with traditional software or hardware appliances similar deployment would have taken months, Zscaler was able to add this protection to its service within days of the availability of Bing.

Elsevier today announced the highlights of its journal impact factor performance in 2008. Elsevier overall saw 75% of its journal impact factors (IF) increase from 2007 to 2008. According to the 2008 Journal Citation Report(R) published by ThomsonReuters, Elsevier journals took the #1 position in 51 categories (of 229) across all of the sciences and social sciences.

In addition, 30 Elsevier journals got their first impact factor this year. Cell Stem Cell (http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/home) (16.826) entered the Cell Biology category ranked 6th (of 157 journals), while Cell Host Microbe (http://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/home) (7.436) entered the Microbiology category ranked 10th (of 91 journals).

LONDON, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Online Poker Players of all Levels can Chase Their way to Thousands of Cash Prizes this Summer at DevilfishPoker.com in the World's Biggest Rake Chase

DevilfishPoker.com today announces its World's Biggest Rake Chase promotion running from July 1 to September 30 and offering over euro 1.7 million in prizes.

The World's Biggest Rake Chase is free to enter for players of all levels and bankrolls and takes place over three monthly chase periods - July 1 to 31, August 1 to 31 and September 1 to 30. All real money play counts towards this World's Biggest Rake Chase including cash games, sit go tournaments and multi-table tournaments.

LONDON, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

The Healthcare Group at Frost Sullivan is pleased to announce its 2009 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on the European Hospital Information Systems (HIS) Market to be held on Tuesday, 7th July 2009, at 2 p.m. GMT.

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Although most hospitals in Europe have some kind of information system in place, only a few have fully integrated and functional hospital information systems solutions installed. The Frost Sullivan briefing will cover latest market trends, challenges and market metrics in the European market and also gives a detailed overview from the end-user perspective.

DOHA, Qatar, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Young Innovator Awarded 300,000 $ in Competition Final

Lebanese contestant Bassam Jalgha was yesterday evening declared winner of the first series of Stars of Science, a new Pan-Arab innovation contest initiated by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development.

At the end of a heated grand finale held at the Aspire Sports Academy in Doha and televised live across the Arab world, viewers awarded 62% of the votes to the creator of Dozan, an automatic tuner for stringed instruments, against 38% for Mohammed Orsod and his Orsod project, a cooking oil tester.

BALTIMORE, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Northrop Grumman Cobham Intercoms LLC (NGCI LLC), a company formed by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Cobham (LSE: COB), has been selected to provide the VIS-X Vehicular Intercommunication System Expanded for the U.S. Army's Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM).

Under the terms of this indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract, the NGCI team is required to be able to deliver up to 500 VIS-X systems per month during the first year following completion of First Article Testing and up to 2,000 systems per month in subsequent years. The total value of the 10-year ID/IQ contract has an anticipated not-to-exceed ceiling of US$2.4 billion.