LONDON, September 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Data Explorers are announcing today a new monitoring service (http://www.dataexplorers.com/rsm) covering all stocks with short selling restrictions recently applied by the SEC and FSA. These stocks now require specific regulatory filings and Data Explorers will combine these with their extensive global short side intelligence database.

Data Explorers has been providing transparency to the Securities Lending industry for the past 6 years. The company delivers unique data provided directly by the Securities Lending market participants. As short selling information becomes increasingly public, Data Explorers will integrate it with their proprietary data to provide increasing transparency in this large and important market.

High blood pressure (hypertension) is one of the most prevalent diseases in the United States. The American Heart Association estimates that high blood pressure affects approximately one in three adults in the US. Genetics and a diet of foods high in fat and saturated with salt underlie the resulting 73 million people suffering from hypertension in the US. As a result, they have a greatly increased risk of heart disease, kidney disease, atherosclerosis, eye damage and stroke. These complications can result in permanent organ damage and death.

Blood pressure is intricately linked to salt and water balance in the body, which is controlled by the kidneys. More salt equals more water and fluid in the kidneys and therefore in the arteries. This causes an increase in overall blood pressure due to increased fluid mass. Furthermore, certain salt ions are linked in cells. Sodium and potassium are commonly linked ions which travel in and out of cells conducted by specific ion channels. The ion charges inside or outside of the cell create a electrical charge which then control physiological outcomes including neuronal impulses and hormonal and muscle controlling cells.

Naphthalene molecules, in combination with water, ammonia and ultraviolet radiation, produce many of the amino acids fundamental to the development of life.

A team of scientists led by researchers from the Instituto Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has succeeded in identifying naphthalene in a star formation region in the constellation Perseus, in the direction of the star Cernis 52.

This means a large number of the key components in prebiotic terrestrial chemistry could have been present in the interstellar matter from which the Solar System was formed.

Pirates, like gangsters, highwayman, and other colorful outlaws, have always carried a certain romantic appeal and, thanks to "Pirates of the Caribbean", they are the most appealing of the outlaws at this moment.

In a swashbuckling article for the Journal of Political Economy, Peter Leeson explored the fascinating “golden age” of piracy during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and finds that these criminal organizations were able to establish a remarkably stable form of self-government.

LONDON, September 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambian Healthcare and re:source won the 2008 Independent Healthcare Award for their ground-breaking partnership to improve the lives of patients with mental illness. The award was judged by the Healthcare Commission.

The award recognises a new innovative programme that enables long-stay hospital patients to return to their communities.

In 2007, 47 patients from the East Midlands were transferred to Cambian's Intensive Psychiatric Rehabilitation Programme. The programme uses high staff ratios and intensive clinical inputs to work closely with these patients to rebuild their daily living skills and confidence.

LONDON, September 19 /PRNewswire/ --

The spate of ATM withdrawals on customer accounts with fraudulent cards has sparked widespread concern across the Middle East. The incidents that happened in UAE have rattled many banks and have instilled fear in the minds of cardholders.

Dubai is maturing into a major leisure and business destination and this means that many foreign-issued cards will be used at local ATM machines. Middle East-issued cards also have a very high level of out of country spending since a large portion of cardholders are expatriates.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, September 19 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 200 participants from 72 companies assembled at the exclusive annual international platform for sustainable energy solutions at Hilton Nordica Reykjavík September 18 and 19.

"In the next five years or so we have to lay the fundamental groundwork of a comprehensive transformation of our traffic system, our transport, how we use the roads, how we move from one place to another, whether it is a household or a city or a country." said Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland, in his opening address at Driving Sustainability at Hilton Reykjavik Thursday.

TORONTO, Canada, September 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Addax Petroleum Corporation (TSX: AXC and LSE: AXC) ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation") will host a management presentation to financial analysts and investors on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 in London, U.K. The Corporation's senior management team, including Mr. Jean Claude Gandur, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. James Pearce, Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Michael Ebsary, Chief Financial Officer, and Mr. Jeff Schrull, General Manager Exploration, will discuss the Corporation's most recent operating results and expectations regarding future operations.

LONDON, September 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Integer, a leading business consultancy in the area of global emissions regulations, today announced its latest speaker lineup for the Diesel Exhaust Fluid Forum (DEFF '08) to be held in San Diego, California, on November 11-12. The aim of this independent forum is to give exclusive insight into the commercial opportunities and concerns created by stricter heavy duty diesel vehicle emissions regulations from January 2010.

Identity thieves can learn a lot about you from your trash and so it goes that a cell's "trash" can yield treasures for biologists.

Using a new technique they developed, scientists at University of Delaware's Delaware Biotechnology Institute analyzed the cellular waste of one of the world's most-studied plants and discovered formerly hidden relationships between genes and the small molecules that can turn them off.