A new University of Sussex study provides evidence that gorilla communication is linked to the left hemisphere of the brain - just as it is in humans.

Psychologist Dr Gillian Sebestyen Forrester developed a new method of analysing the behaviour of gorillas in captivity and found there was a right-handed bias for actions that also involved head and mouth movements. The right side of the body is controlled by the left hemisphere of the brain, which is also the location for language development.

As the world’s money markets do their best to combat the 'credit crunch', a University of Sunderland politics lecturer says that the root of modern democracy’s money woes may lay with the first corporations – pirates.

Dr Peter Hayes is Senior Lecturer in politics at the University of Sunderland. In his latest paper ‘Pirates, Privateers and the contract theories of Hobbes and Locke’ Dr Hayes argues that the roots of modern democracy were not in Britain or the USA, but were the ‘corporations’ which were created on pirate ships during the golden age of buccaneering.

Newswise — With the economy in crisis and foreclosures at an all time high, financial anxiety among Americans seems to be soaring to new heights. In a poll distributed by the American Psychological Association (APA) to more than 1,700 U.S. adults, eight out of 10 surveyed said the economy is a significant cause of stress.

“When there is a sense of uncertainty about the future or when folks feel as if their long-term goals such as retirement or children’s college funds are being threatened, a number of emotions may surface,” says Michael Groat, PhD, a psychologist for the Professionals in Crisis program at The Menninger Clinic in Houston. “We may feel as if we are no longer in control or there may be feelings of anger or lack of trust in our government leaders. All these factors together may make it difficult for people to cope, causing not only emotional distress, but stress related physical ailments as well.”

Is there a connection between what children believe and how they act, and how strong is the link? Researchers from four universities who studied these questions were surprised by the results.

"For me the biggest surprise was how the link between beliefs and behaviors changed from kindergarten to later in childhood and adolescence," said Jennifer Lansford, one of the researchers from Duke University's Center for Child and Family Policy. "Often we assume that if someone believes something, they will act in a way consistent with those beliefs, but that wasn't necessarily the case for the kindergarteners in our sample."

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, October 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Agreement Allows Both Companies To Deliver and Integrate Suite of Products for Branded Content

Aprimo, Inc., today announced it has entered into an alliance with Kodak's Graphic Communications Group to create a combined product portfolio for seamless, digital process that more tightly integrates brand owners with marketing and service providers.

Combined tools from Aprimo's Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) software and KODAK Design2Launch Solutions for "Brand Content Management" enhance the relevancy and effectiveness of marketing communications and provide greater consistency and control of customers' brands.

You know things are bad when an insurance company tries to fix the health care system.

WellPoint Inc. is funding a competition in collaboration with X Prize Foundation to devise solutions that improve health care cost and quality. Although the actual award amount and competition guidelines won’t be ready until early 2009, the rumored jackpot is about $10 million.

According to the X Prize site , the two partners will solicit advice from various stakeholders, hold the competition, and test the finalists’ plans in WellPoint’s markets.

WARSAW, October 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The most important task posed for the participants of the forthcoming "Summit on Sectoral Cooperation" is to develop a common position and to identify opportunities for the cooperation of governments and energy-intensive industries to tackle climate change. The Summit, organized by the Ministry of Economy of Poland, will take place on 27-28 November in Warsaw.

LONDON, October 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to the announcement today (Thursday, 16th October) from Ed Milliband that energy companies will be forced to introduce fairer pricing for customers with pre-payment meters if they would not do so voluntarily, Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley said:

"Asking the greedy energy companies to play fair by the poor and vulnerable is like putting a drunk in charge of the brewery. Voluntary codes do not work on monopoly companies who have a licence to print money at the expense of the poor and vulnerable. Only direct government action to impose change will bring about fairness.

"But at long last we are seeing some sign that the government is prepared to take on the profiteering oil and energy giants.

The means by which proteins provide a 'border control' service, allowing cells to take up chemicals and substances from their surroundings, whilst keeping others out, is revealed in unprecedented molecular detail for the first time in Science Express.

The scientists behind the new study have visualised the structure of a protein called Microbacterium hydantoin permease, or 'Mhp1', which lives in the oily membrane that surrounds bacteria cells. It belongs to a group of proteins known as 'transporters' which help cells take up certain substances from the environment around them. This is the first time scientists have been able to show how a transporter protein opens and closes to allow molecules across the membrane and into the cell, by accurate analysis of its molecular structure in different states.

LONDON, October 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Date: 17th October 2008

- Location: University of Sussex main campus entrance directly off A27 Worthing to Lewes.

Unite members working at the University of Sussex will take a further day of strike action in a dispute over pensions tomorrow (Friday 17th October).

Unite will be demonstrating at pickets which will be in place from 8 am on the 17th October in a dispute which will cause disruption to the university's laboratories.