ESPOO, Finland, September 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortum will gain approximately 1.5 million tonnes of emission reduction units (ERU) from Joint Implementation projects conducted at the Russian Territorial Generating Company No. 10 (TGC-10). The projects TGC-10 will implement include construction of new power generation facilities in the Tyumen and Chelyabinsk areas, and they will be conducted during the Kyoto Period (2008-2012) of the European Emissions Trading Scheme.

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DALLAS, September 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Entrust demonstrates perfect PKI certificate exchange for EAC interoperability test across multiple countries and vendors

At a key interoperability test for second-generation ePassports in Prague earlier this month, Entrust, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) demonstrated a successful public key infrastructure (PKI) certificate exchange using United Kingdom and Slovenia systems in a multi-country test environment. Showcasing a "point- and-click" PKI system, Entrust confirmed that the security infrastructure for second-generation ePassports, based on Extended Access Control (EAC), is truly ready for global deployment.

READING, England, September 30 /PRNewswire/ -- DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, this month celebrates its 10th anniversary. From small beginnings, today DediPower has '000's of customers ranging in size from rapidly growing "internet" innovators to large, well-established organisations and multinationals.

With origins in web development, founders Craig Martin, Spencer Tarring and Russell Champion, identified the growing need for reliable and effective web hosting solutions for their clients in the late 90's. This exciting market opportunity changed the direction of the company that today is focused on delivering dedicated hosting solutions in its two UK enterprise class data centres.

LONDON, September 30 /PRNewswire/ -- mvision, a UK Managed Network Service provider of video conferencing and telepresence solutions, was awarded TANDBERG's 2008 EMEA Managed Video Services Provider of the Year award. The award ceremony held during TANDBERG's Partner Summit in Barcelona recognised mvision for the way they have successfully developed, packaged and marketed their range of Managed Services.

The detailed study, called the ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury (ANGST) program, explored a region called the Local Volume, where galaxy distances range from 6.5 million light-years to 13 million light-years from Earth.

A typical galaxy contains billions of stars but looks smooth when viewed through a conventional telescope because the stars appear blurred together. In contrast, the galaxies observed in this new survey are close enough to Earth that the sharp view provided by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 can resolve the brightness and colour of some individual stars. This allows scientists to determine the history of star formation within a galaxy and tease out subtle features in a galaxy's shape.

Researchers have identified two new genes – and confirmed the role of a third gene – associated with increased risk of higher levels of uric acid in the blood, which can lead to gout, a common, painful form of arthritis. Combined, the three genetic variations were associated with up to a 40-fold increased risk in developing gout. The findings suggest that genetic testing could one day be used to identify individuals at risk for gout before symptoms develop, as well as determine who might benefit from medications to prevent the development of gout.

The genes were identified using data from two large genome-wide association studies – genetic variations of nearly 7,700 participants from NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study SHARe (SNP Health Association Resource) and more than 4,100 participants in NWO's Rotterdam Study. Researchers then replicated their finding using data from nearly 14,900 participants in NHLBI's Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC).

OR AKIVA, Israel, September 30 /PRNewswire/ -- ITGI Medical, Ltd. (TASE: ITGI) a company engaged with research, development, manufacturing and marketing of heterologous tissue covered stents, announced that its second heterologous tissue covered stent - AneuGraft(R) received CE Mark approval.

AneuGraft(R) is a stent 100% covered with a heterologous tissue, designed to set a barrier between the coronary blood vessel wall and its lumen. It is intended for situations in tortuous vessels.

"AneuGraft(R) Pericardium Covered Stent is especially suitable for patients with tortuous vessels where other covered stents may not be adequate for use due to limitations resulting from tortuous anatomy," says Efri Argaman ITGI Medical CEO.

OSNABRÜCK, Germany, September 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- DBU's German Environmental Award Goes to the Dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (USA), and the Founder of BRAIN AG

LONDON, September 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Business telephone line provider 123Telecom have launched their lowest telephone tariff ever and aptly named it The Credit Crunch Tariff.

"Telecoms prices are at their lowest level ever at a time when other utility costs have soared over the last 18 months" says 123Telecom MD Eric Toll. "Our Credit Crunch Tariff enables customers to choose any contract period between 9 and 36 months and we guarantee to freeze all prices for the duration of the contract term."

In recent years, 123Telecom have achieved a reputation in the industry for aggressively discounting calls and line rental, however their new Credit Crunch tariff represents the companies lowest rates yet.

The Captain can't freeze smelly fish that's past its best - and Icelandic scientists can now help him out by detecting the levels of stench-making bacteria faster than ever before.

The research in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Journal of Environmental Monitoring reports a new method to detect bacteria that break down dead fish and produce the distasteful smell of rotting fish. It opens the door to a standard of quality control even higher and speedier than the finely-tuned nose of the bushy-bearded Birdseye.

Using a technique based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Eyjófur Reynisson and colleagues from Matis-Icelandic Food Research, Reykjavik, can assess the levels of Pseudomonas bacteria in fish in just five hours. This is four times faster than the current quickest method, which involves traditional cultivation of the bacteria Pseudomonas, the root cause of stinking fish.