LONDON, October 14 /PRNewswire/ -- XLN Telecom - the UK's leading telecoms company serving the small business community - has been ranked above both BT and TalkTalk by Topcomm. Topcomm measures key performance indicators such as delivering on-time orders, providing accurate billing and promptly handling and resolving complaints and faults.

GENEVA, Switzerland, October 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Five Research Teams Selected to Receive Funding for Preclinical and Clinical Research Projects in Parkinson's Disease-Related Cognitive Deficits and Mood Disorders

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) awarded a total of $2 million to five research teams to speed development of effective therapies for the under-addressed cognitive and mood-related symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). The award was made possible by leadership funding from Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

LENEXA, Kansas, October 14 /PRNewswire/ --

Today, SpreadsheetGear LLC announced the immediate availability of SpreadsheetGear 2008. With one safe managed assembly, SpreadsheetGear 2008 enables developers to easily add scalable ASP.NET Excel Reporting, dynamic Dashboards from Excel Charts and Ranges, powerful Windows Forms Spreadsheet Controls, comprehensive Excel Compatible Charting, the fastest and most complete Excel Compatible Calculations and much more.

NEW YORK, October 14 /PRNewswire/ -- RavenPack International, a leading global provider of news analytics technology and content, today announced the appointment of Don Williams as Managing Director, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Welcoming Mr. Williams to RavenPack, Armando Gonzalez CEO and President of RavenPack said, "We are pleased to have Don on board with us to drive our sales and marketing initiatives forward. The addition of Don strengthens the leadership team at RavenPack and we are looking forward to tapping his broad experience in providing technology and content solutions to financial markets."

LONDON, October 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Digital Agency Rufus Leonard Deploys NTT Europe Online's Hosted Virtualization Solution - Cutting Website Development Time in Half and Dramatically Improving its Service Offering

Rufus Leonard (http://www.rufusleonard.com/), a leading digital marketing agency, is using NTT Europe Online's (http://www.ntteuropeonline.com/) managed virtualization service to dramatically reduce the cost and time associated with developing, testing and launching its clients' websites, giving it clear competitive advantage and greater agility.

The discovery of the earliest known cases of human tuberculosis (TB) in bones found submerged off the coast of Israel shows that the disease is 3000 years older than previously thought. Direct examination of this ancient DNA confirms the latest theory that bovine TB evolved later than human TB.

The new research sheds light on how the TB bacterium has evolved over the millennia and increases our understanding of how it may change in the future.

The bones, thought to be of a mother and baby, were excavated from Alit-Yam, a 9000 year-old Pre-Pottery Neolithic village, which has been submerged off the coast of Haifa, Israel for thousands of years. Professor Israel Hershkovitz, from Tel-Aviv University's Department of Anatomy, noticed the characteristic bone lesions that are signs of TB in skeletons from the settlement, one of the earliest with evidence of domesticated cattle.

A new study sheds light on the lives of teenage boys who abuse their girlfriends. In their own words, the young men often describe facing challenges such as growing up with troubled family lives, having little or no support when they began to fail at school, and witnessing violence in their own homes and communities. The study advocates broadening the view of abusive behaviors within dating relationships to explore the myriad environments — school, home and community — that affect boys' lives and actions.

'Blindsight' is a phenomenon in which patients with damage in the primary visual cortex of the brain can tell where an object is although they claim they cannot see it.

A research team led by Prof. Tadashi Isa and Dr. Masatoshi Yoshida of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan, provides compelling evidence that blindsight occurs because visual information is conveyed bypassing the primary visual cortex.

LONDON, October 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Eminent Scientist Declares Innovative Technologies can Halve Crude Oil Price Whilst Protecting Global Environment

Kenneth Hsu Consulting (KHC) is pleased to announce a Press & Investor Conference at The Geological Society of London on 30th October 2008 at 10am (doors open 9.45am) to present the company's technological inventions, to alleviate the global water, energy, environmental, climate and economic crises.

Hershey's Center for Health and Nutrition announced the publication of a study that shows resveratrol, the compound often associated with the health benefits of red wine, is also found in cocoa and dark chocolate products. In the September 24 edition of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Hershey scientists conducting a report that cocoa powder, baking chocolate and dark chocolate all have significant levels of resveratrol, a naturally occurring antioxidant.

"This study shows that the levels of resveratrol found in cocoa and chocolate products is second to red wine among known sources of resveratrol and forms yet another important link between the antioxidants found in cocoa and dark chocolate to other foods," says David Stuart, PhD, Director of Natural Product Science at The Hershey Company who partnered with Planta Analytica to conduct this study.