HANOVER, Germany, December 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Market Entry in Italy and Spain

The managed services of the e-mail security service provider antispameurope have recently also become available in southern Europe. The company has initially focused its expansion on Spain and Italy, and is utilising strong regional sales partners to break into the new markets.

UTRECHT, The Netherlands, December 19 /PRNewswire/ -- WCC Smart Search Match, the leading provider of high-performance search and match software, today announced that Arbetsförmedlingen in Sweden (Swedish Public Employment Service) has decided to use ELISE as the backbone of its core business process, Job matching. ELISE will support Arbetsförmedlingen job consultants in giving better advice to unemployed people about getting the right job. Arbetsförmedlingen expects to increase the quality of the matching process and get more people in the right jobs faster.

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, December 19 /PRNewswire/ --

Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE Alternext US: CUR) announced this morning that it has filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin a clinical trial to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease).

LONDON, December 19 /PRNewswire/ --

Based on its recent analysis of the biometric access control markets, Frost Sullivan recognizes TBS - Touchless Biometric Systems with the 2008 European Frost Sullivan Product Innovation of the Year Award. This award acknowledges TBS' development of the world's first and only touchless and 3D fingerprint sensor. The company's technological innovations set a new level of security, usability and convenience in fingerprinting identification.

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LONDON, December 19 /PRNewswire/ --

The 2008 Frost Sullivan European Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) Growth Strategy Leadership Award is presented to Chloride. Strong revenue growth, strategic acquisitions, an expanding geographic reach and enhanced service capabilities have enabled the company to achieve significant growth. Focused growth strategies, including its remote monitoring facility LIFE.net, have also enabled Chloride to make solid gains in the services market.

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LONDON, December 19 /PRNewswire/ --

The 2008 Frost Sullivan European Megapixel Camera Product Line Strategy of the Year Award is presented to Arecont Vision (Arecont) for its complete portfolio of products ranging from multi-megapixel network cameras to high-definition Internet protocol video surveillance systems and associated software.

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In small towns in the Midwestern United States, people who eat out often at buffets and cafeterias and who perceive their community to be unpleasant for physical activity are more likely to be obese, says a studt in Preventive Medicine.

Thirty percent of U.S. adults are obese, which increases their risk for health conditions such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Rural adults have higher levels of obesity and are less active in their leisure time than urban and suburban U.S. adults, says Ross Brownson, Ph.D., senior author of the study and a professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis..

CALGARY, Canada, December 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Packers Plus hit a major milestone for 2008 - 1000 multi-stage completion systems in Canada this year alone.

We performed our 1000th job in Canada on December 4th, said Canadian Business Unit Director Doug Bobrosky.

On that day, we preformed seven jobs in several formations including the Bakken, Shaunavon, and Dunvegan. On a regular basis, we are working in four provinces and more than 10 different formations, and to me that demonstrates how diverse and versatile our technology is.

The multi-stage completions technology was introduced to the marketplace in the summer of 2002 and has completely transformed the oil and gas industry in a very short period of time.

When most people think of climate change, they think of it as another term for global warming.  But climate change replaced global warming as a term because the warming has never been global and  it wasn't just warming that impacted human civilization - it was cooling too.

Over the last several years, scientists have built a very convincing case that Mars hosted water, at least early in its history. Recent observations from the Mars Phoenix lander and other spacecraft show that the planet still holds vast deposits of water as ice at its poles and in soil-covered glaciers in the mid-latitudes.

What is less known is how much water occupied the red planet and what happened to it during its geological march to the present. Mostly, evidence has pointed to a period when clay-rich minerals were formed by water, followed by a drier time, when salt-rich, acidic water affected much of the planet. Assuming that happened, the thinking goes, it would have been difficult for life, if it did exist, to have survived and for scientists to find traces of it.