MARSEILLE, France, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Wind energy can replace a large proportion of the polluting and finite fuels we currently rely on, explained Andris Piebalgs, EU Energy Commissioner, at the opening session of the European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition (EWEC) organised by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) this morning. It makes good sense to invest in indigenous sources of power which hedge against unpredictable fossil fuel prices and in which Europe has a real competitive advantage.

BERLIN, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- In October 2009, the European College of Liberal Arts - in Berlin, Germany - will launch the first Bachelor of Arts in Value Studies worldwide, an interdisciplinary programme that represents a new form of liberal education.

MILPITAS, California, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Recognition Underscores Adaptec Channel Leadership in Unified Serial(R) (SATA/SAS) RAID Solutions

Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT), a global leader in storage solutions, today announced that it was named one of the Top 20 Strategic Storage Vendors by ChannelWeb, the industry leader in technology sales information, and that it has been named Best Channel Vendor in the storage category by Business Solutions, a leading technology magazine focused on growth strategies for the IT channel. Adaptec was the only RAID controller vendor to earn either of these awards.

DUBAI, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- After the 2002 surge in oil prices, most oil-exporting countries started setting up dedicated investment funds exclusively for the oil surplus they had earned. They were further encouraged when in 2006, the price of oil increased from an average of $28 per barrel to $80 per barrel.

Consequently, the gross domestic product (GDP) of the petro-states increased manifold and created substantial liquidity and large-scale opportunities for overseas investments. In fact, the funds of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) alone accounted for more than half the assets held by Sovereign Wealth Funds globally.

LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Hikma Pharmaceuticals today announced strong revenue growth and stable net profits despite a loss at the company's US Generics business. The weakness in the US was offset by a strong performance from the multinational Pharma company's Injectable and Branded businesses. CEO, Said Darwazah, said The US operations, in 2007, reported operating profit of about $30m and in 2008 we had a loss there so in spite of this $30m plus loss the other divisions, the Branded and the Injectables, performed so well, grew so much that they were able to offset that.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that its senior vice president of Business Development, Federico Grosso, will be speaking at the 2009 Media Summit Conference at the McGraw-Hill Building in New York City at 2:15 p.m. E.T. on March 18th. Grosso will be presenting on a panel titled, Video Advertising: How New Consumer Habits are Driving the Advertising Community to Innovate, and the Challenges with Scale.

LUCCA, Italy and LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Local Agreement Signed for a Global Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Financial Governance Solution

Tagetik, a global provider of Corporate Performance Management and Financial Governance software solutions, today announced its integration with Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft's Business Intelligence Platform. The announcement follows a comprehensive review of Microsoft's Business Intelligence roadmap, aiming to provide companies with well-known application tools such as SharePoint technologies, SQL Server and Office 2007 to support their decision making.

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I have a curious mind and like to find out how and why things work. Unlike my husband and my two boys, I don’t necessarily take things apart to uncover how they operate (what is it with the Y chromosome and the inherent need to do this?) – instead, I’m more of a look-it-up-and-research-it type of girl. Thank goodness for Google.

At the same time, there are some of life’s mysteries that I am happy to accept. I don’t really understand how volume control works. I mean, I know it has something to do with sound waves and amplitude – but all I really know is when I turn the knob up, I can suddenly hear my movie again over the ruckus of the kids. Mystery of how to hear the ending of “Stardust” while the boys play destruction derby in the other room – solved. **

They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are?  Yes, say UCLA researchers. 

In a Journal of Neuroscience study, UCLA neurology professor Paul Thompson and colleagues used a new type of brain-imaging scanner to show that intelligence is strongly influenced by the quality of the brain's axons, or wiring that sends signals throughout the brain. The faster the signaling, the faster the brain processes information. And since the integrity of the brain's wiring is influenced by genes, the genes we inherit play a far greater role in intelligence than was previously thought. 

The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard.  In the morning, the bricks will be covered with snow and barely discernible. The snowflakes will have filled every vacant space between and around the bricks.

What you will see, says Ivan Biaggio, an associate professor of physics at Lehigh University, resembles a phenomenon that, when it occurs at the smallest of scales on an integrated optical circuit, could hasten the day when the Internet works at superfast speeds.