MAARSSEN, Netherlands, July 24 /PRNewswire/ --

The global pharma ingredients and services community's largest annual gathering, CPhI Worldwide, returns this year to Frankfurt on Tuesday 30 September - Thursday 2 October.

With the integrated ICSE contract services and P-MEC machinery and equipment events, the exhibitions will be conveniently located in the adjoining Messe Halls 3, 4, 5 and 6. Frankfurt has a long association with the events and 2008 marks the fifth time that the city hosts CPhI.

The industry has seen major growth since the event was last here in 2003. Five years ago there were 1,200 exhibitors: this year will see close to 1,800. The 2003 attendee total of just over 16,000 will likely be at least 50% up, at 24,000 or more for 2008.

BASEL, Switzerland, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The European Committee for Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) has confirmed that the presence of an impurity called ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) in Roche's Viracept (nelfinavir mesylate) did not increase patients' risk of developing cancer.

The discovery of the EMS impurity in some batches of nelfinavir led to a global recall of this HIV medication in June 2007. Since then, the product has been made available again in the EU.

The conclusions announced today were based on tests with EMS, which have been validated by independent experts including toxicologists and HIV-treating clinicians. The results were also reviewed by patient advocates and non-governmental organisations.

LONDON, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- OCADO, the independent online grocer, has triumphed in a national awards scheme to find the greenest retailers in Britain.

The OLGAs (Online Green Awards) have recognised Ocado, which processes over 12,000 customer orders every day, for its commitment to environmentally sustainable retailing and inherently green approach to doing business. Ocado won the 'Large Retailer' accolade beating competition from Ebay, easyJet, Marks & Spencer, Kelkoo and Ebuyer.

A panel of environmental experts from the OLGAs drew up a shortlist of the six firms and then asked the public to select the most impressive green online retailer by voting on msn.com.

MIAMI, July 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- Comprehensive Content Security Solutions Now Available for South American Enterprises and Security-as-a-Service Providers

Optenet, a leading global IT security company and a provider of intelligent, integrated content security solutions, today announced the launch of its Latin-American operations and the opening of its regional headquarters in Miami. Led by Maurico Alanis, Sales Country Manager, Optenet will sell its award-winning content security solutions to service providers and enterprises throughout Latin America.

ZURICH, Switzerland, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Solianis' new patents cover the basic technology to monitor changes in the hydration of skin at different depths and to evaluate the impact of cosmetic products: "Device and method for determining at least one characterizing parameter of multilayer body tissue" and "Method and device for characterizing the effect of a skin treatment agent on skin."

This novel technology has been developed on the basis of the Solianis' multisensor approach: it measures various parameters of human skin, e.g. the parameter moisture in different skin depths.

Since people have asked, here is my take on Stuart Kauffman’s ideas on reductionism and emergence. Kauffman distinguishes between two types of emergence, “epistemological” and “ontological.”

Epistemological emergence is the idea that complex systems cannot be described, as a matter of practice, in terms of their component units because of our epistemic limitations, that is our inability to do the computations. According to ontological emergence, on the other hand, a full understanding of complex systems in terms of their components is not possible in principle, not just because of practical considerations, because new levels of causality appear at higher levels of organization.

BRISTOL, England, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Austin Adams, former CIO for JPMorgan Chase, spent most of his 35-year career in banking overseeing technology and operations. In a period of dramatic consolidation, he was involved in more than 90 mergers and responsible for almost 28,000 employees and a multi-billion dollar budget.

On Wednesday 20 August, the man Business 2.0 magazine called "one of the 16 most influential technology people in the world" will be sharing his accumulated knowledge with a host of senior financial executives in a unique, online and interactive interview on MeettheBoss.com, the next generation business-networking tool dedicated to finance.

According to Peter Olson of the Natural History Museum in London, "All free-living organisms host one or more parasites." This can be taken two ways, both of them generally true: a) that each individual multicellular organism hosts at least one individual parasite within its body, and b) that each free-living species plays host to at least one species of parasite that attacks it exclusively. Consider this second point for a moment. For each free living species there is one or more (usually several more) parasite species -- that is, as a category (polyphyletic, obviously), parasites may very well be the most diverse types of organisms on the planet.

Surcharges. those annoying fees like shipping and handling, have been around since the advent of catalogs and remain in the days of the Internet. Everyone hates them but how many of us base our purchasing decision on these bothersome fees?

Quite a lot, it seems. And not just on Ebay, where sellers make a habit of tacking on outrageous handling charges, but in all aspects of commerce. Basically, the less trustworthy the seller, the more inclined a buyer will balk at surcharges.

The new research published in The Journal of Consumer Research was conducted by Amar Cheema, Ph.D., assistant professor of marketing at Washington University in St. Louis, and he suggests that consumers pay more attention to surcharges overall than previously thought.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 /PRNewswire/ --

Crocodiles not Waterlilies Entertainment, LLC, a San Francisco based entertainment company with meaningful content, announced that its CrocPond (TM) brand is locally supporting the Kristi Yamaguchi's Friends and Family ice show slated for October 12 in Phoenix, AZ at the US Airways Center. The show will include very special guest performances by The Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, and Jordan Pruitt and will be nationally televised on NBC-TV at a date to be announced.

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