PARIS, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- During the course of the French presidency of the Council of the European Union, the French Food Safety Agency (Afssa) is organising a series of meetings in the field of health and safety and veterinary medicine.

While individual Member States must guarantee the reliability and relevance of their own specific organisation, many aspects are also played out on the international stage. Afssa, like all its partners, plays a particularly active role within numerous European and international networks.

BASINGSTOKE, England and CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

EAST GRINSTEAD, England, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Diskeeper Corporation has released its new white paper on how Diskeeper(R) 2008 can help companies reduce power consumption.

The study was performed by 3D Professor (http://www.3dprofessor.org) and was focused on determining the energy savings that Diskeeper can afford users when installed on a machine.

Disk fragmentation can directly affect the energy consumption over data access time: files in a fragmented state take longer to be read as the head of the disk needs to collect all the fragments of the file in order to open it. All this extra work means also a higher power usage over a longer period of time.

LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- XS2TheWorld Speaks Foreign Phrases, so you Don't Have to

XS2TheWorld has won a bronze award in the category "Best Handset application" for their "Mobile Speaking Travel Guides" at the international Mobile Content Award (MCA) conference 2008.

XS2TheWorld was nominated earlier for both 'best handset application' and 'best entertainment service' by the judging panel at the Mobile Content Awards (MCA).

A giant rubber anaconda could be a step on the road to meeting a large chunk of our energy needs using carbon-free, wave-generated electricity.

The 'Anaconda' is named after the snake of the same name because of its long thin shape. It is closed at both ends and filled completely with water and then anchored just below the sea's surface, with one end facing the oncoming waves. A wave hitting the end squeezes it and causes a 'bulge wave'(a wave of pressure produced when a fluid oscillates forwards and backwards inside a tube) to form inside the tube. As the bulge wave runs through the tube, the initial sea wave that caused it runs along the outside of the tube at the same speed, squeezing the tube more and more and causing the bulge wave to get bigger and bigger. The bulge wave then turns a turbine fitted at the far end of the device and the power produced is fed to shore via a cable.

LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- With Photo

From 15th July a photographic exhibition with a difference will be on display for a month at Baltic Restaurant, SE1.

The exhibition is the culmination of an eight-month project where some of London's most vulnerable women learnt photographic skills through a series of workshops and meetings and where they began to share and communicate for the first time, through their work and focus on an occupation other than chasing basic survival needs.

These women have never been given an opportunity to speak out safely, but now they have catalogued their lives in a series of hard-hitting images.

LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Opsera, a leading UK open source software and services company, today announces a new partnership with NTT Europe Online to provide clients with managed hosting, security and application management services. Opsera designs, develops and supports business systems using a wide range of open source software. This partnership allows Opsera to offer clients a complete managed service solution from a company with over ten years of experience and a proven track record of reliability.

LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Virtualization and Managed Hosting Technology Used to Absorb Peak Numbers of Online Football Fans and Video Users

LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

NTT Europe Online, managed hosting provider to UEFA official public websites and extranet platform reveals how virtualization technology was used as part of its hosting platform to support record levels of web traffic to http://www.euro2008.com, the official website for the 2008 European Championships.

WAALWIJK, The Netherlands, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The management of DOCDATA N.V. today announces that the Group will publish the consolidated figures for the first half of the 2008 financial year on Tuesday 29 July 2008 by issuing a press release at 07.30AM Amsterdam time, before opening hours of the stock exchange. Consequently, the management will discuss the 2008 half-year results in a meeting for which both financial press and analysts will be invited, to be held at 10.30AM Amsterdam time in the Mercurius room of the Financieel Nieuwscentrum Beursplein 5 of NYSE Euronext Amsterdam (Beursplein 5, 1012 JW Amsterdam, +31-20-5505505).

Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found what tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they say, that is similar to what drives hungry college students to a pizza.

Yes, college students have the calculus center of a worm.

These behavior-driving calculations are done "in a tiny, specialized computer inside a primitive roundworm," says principal investigator Shawn Lockery, a University of Oregon biologist and member of the UO Institute of Neuroscience.

In the paper, the researchers documented how two related, closely located chemosensory neurons, acting in tandem, regulate behavior. The left neuron controls an on switch, while the opposing right one an off switch. These sister neurons are situated much like the two nostrils or two eyes of mammals. Together these neurons are known as ASE for antagonistic sensory cues.