MANCHESTER, England, August 1 /PRNewswire/ --

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With significant rises in energy costs in the UK, homeowners are increasingly concerned about household energy use and the rising cost of living. Whilst capped energy deals offer a short-term solution, Countryside Properties says that new homes could ease the long-term burden, as research shows new homes offer considerable cost-saving advantages.

Over the last decade, childhood obesity has grown into an epidemic, reflected in soaring rates of type 2 diabetes and recommendations that pediatricians check toddlers for elevated cholesterol.

What hasn't been as clear is how early to intervene.

A study presented at a pediatric research program on Friday suggested obesity prevention efforts should begin as early as age two, when children reach a "tipping point" in a progression that leads to obesity later in life.

MUMBAI, August 1 /PRNewswire/ -- - TIS' Learning Planet(TM) all set to Enable Success at one of the World's Leading Petrochemical Companies.

Learning Planet(TM), an Enterprise Learning Management System from global E-learning provider TIS, has recently been implemented at EQUATE Petrochemical Company, a Kuwait-based global downstream petrochemical company.

According to Anil Sonkar - Head, Software Solutions, TIS, "EQUATE was looking for a system that enables seamless connectivity to its current SAP portal and meets the company's objectives to facilitate training and workflow process development."

Sonkar added "EQUATE required a robust Learning Management System (LMS) that would address these two key issues."

LONDON, August 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Dell is about to enter the mp3 player market (http://tinyurl.com/574go2), crime stats are to be mapped (http://tinyurl.com/5q5oo6), O2's profits have dropped (http://tinyurl.com/68277s) and Scrabble has failed to get Scrabulous off Facebook (http://tinyurl.com/5jakdn).

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The pinhole camera, a technique known since ancient times, has inspired a futuristic technology for lensless, three-dimensional imaging. Working at both the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and at FLASH, the free-electron laser in Hamburg, Germany, an international group of scientists has produced two of the brightest, sharpest x-ray holograms of microscopic objects ever made, thousands of times more efficiently than previous x-ray-holographic methods.

The x-ray hologram made at ALS beamline 9.0.1 was of Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing "Vitruvian Man," a lithographic reproduction less than two micrometers (millionths of a meter, or microns) square, etched with an electron-beam nanowriter. The hologram required a five-second exposure and had a resolution of 50 nanometers (billionths of a meter).

DÜSSELDORF, Germany, August 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Further Focus on Pharma & Life Science

Gerresheimer AG is to discontinue its business in technical plastic systems. The business segment, which primarily manufactures system components for suppliers to the automobile industry, is not part of the core business of pharma & life science. For this purpose the sale process has been started through an international invitation for bids.

"Through the sale of the technical plastics business we are, as previously announced, continuing our focus on the core business of pharma & life science, "says Dr. Axel Herberg, CEO of Gerresheimer AG.

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The most common causes of massive bleedings from the hemorrhagic erosive gastritis and similar lesions of duodenum and thin intestine, which well react on the operational treatment, are ulcerations induced with stress, or with ingestion of aspirins and alcohols. Stress, aspirin and alcohol, disrupt the “gel-function” of gastric mucus, so-called the mucosal barrier for the backscattering H-Jons, which is it’s the most important defensive factor.

The increased backscattering of H-Jons, enable ulterior damage, liberating vessel-active substances, and leads to degranulation of mastocits of gastric mucous membrane, and liberation of heparin, and consecutive bleeding.

On August 1, a total solar eclipse was visible in parts of Canada, northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia and China. The eclipse swept across Earth in a narrow path that began in Canada’s northern territory of Nunavut and ended in northern China’s Silk Road region.

Though the eclipse was not visible in most of North America, NASA TV and the Exploratorium made streaming video of the event available online. The following images are taken from that video, shot from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China near the Mongolian border. The sun appears differently in some of the images because of the different filters used to capture the event. Times listed are ET and approximate.

GENEVA and PARIS, August 1 /PRNewswire/ --

SunGard and GL TRADE today announced SunGard's intention to acquire a majority stake in GL TRADE, a global financial software solutions company serving more than 1,600 customers.

New knowledge points to the fact that a genetically induced lack of filaggrin, a key protein of the skin barrier, plays a decisive role in the origin of allergies.

In a large study on more than 3000 school-children scientists of the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technische Universität München found that about 8% of the German population carry variations of the filaggrin gene, which raise the risk to develop atopic dermatitis more than threefold. In addition, these genetic variations predispose to hay fever and asthma in those with atopic dermatitis.