TROY, Michigan, June 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Altair's PBS Professional Chosen to Manage Compute Intensive Workloads for Engine Component Design

Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of technology and services that empower innovation and decision-making, today announced that AVL, the world's largest privately-owned and independent company for the development of powertrain systems, has selected PBS Professional the flagship product of PBS GridWorks to manage their engineering workload. Already a long-term customer of HyperWorks, Altair's engineering simulation software platform, AVL has expanded their adoption of Altair technologies with the addition of PBS Professional.

Scientists at VIB, the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, have successfully introduced genes coding for a variant of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, into fruit flies. CMT is one of the most common hereditary disorders of the peripheral nervous system. VIB research – directed by Albena Jordanova, Patrick Callaerts and Vincent Timmerman - shows that the flies recapitulate several symptoms of the human disease.

BERLIN, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- In the news release, Biosense Webster to Showcase CARTO(R) 3 System at Eurospace issued on 22 Jun 2009 09:31 GMT, by Biosense Webster, Inc. over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that in the headline Eurospace should have been written as Europace. The correct headline therefore should have read Biosense Webster to Showcase CARTO(R) 3 System at Europace.

- State-of-the-Art Navigational Mapping System Offers Unique Combination of Accuracy, Speed and Efficiency

DNA is like your phone line. As Northwestern University biophysicist Johnathan Widom put it in a talk recently, DNA simultaneously encodes multiple overlapping signals, just like your phone line that allows you to call home while you're surfing the net via DSL. Written into your DNA is the code for the amino acid sequences of the proteins produced by your genes, as well as the so-called 'non-coding' regulatory sequences which essentially encode when, where, and how much your genes are expressed.

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A Ph.D. thesis at the University of the Basque Country has analyzed the role played by a number of emotional variables, such as the way in which negative emotions are controlled or attitudes to emotional expression, and to use these variables as tools to predict the possibility of suffering an eating disorder.

The first U.S. charter school opened in 1992. Since then the number of charters has grown to more than 4,000 in 40 states, serving 1.2 million students, according to RAND, a nonprofit research organization based in Santa Monica, California.

Students at charter schools graduate and attend college at significantly higher rates than students at traditional public schools, according to a Rand Corp. study led by a Michigan State University scholar.The study, which offers mixed overall results for charter school advocates, comes amid a national debate over President Obama's endorsement of charter schools, which are experimental public schools that operate independently of the local school board.

DALLAS, June 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Conselium, a leading executive search firm with a specialty in ethics and compliance, today introduced Corporate Compliance Insights (CCI), a global online forum and job board for corporate governance, compliance, risk management and business ethics. Corporate Compliance Insights was introduced to fill the growing need of corporate compliance and ethics professionals as they adjust to the new economy and a global shift in business. Created to be an informative knowledge-sharing platform, Corporate Compliance Insights' mission is to educate and encourage interaction among members of the compliance, ethics, risk and governance community.

LONDON, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Department of Health's Specialist Advisor for Autism, Elaine Hill, has publicly urged practitioners, service users, their families and the general public to submit their views and case studies to the Government's consultation on a National Autism Strategy at a national conference on the mental health needs of people with ASC that took place in London on Wednesday 17th June 2009 sponsored by autism care services provider Brookdale Care.

TEL AVIV, Israel, June 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Name Highlights Company's Mission to Improve the Quality of Mobile Applications and Services

Nexperience, a leading provider of remote access and automated testing solutions for mobile devices, announced today that is has changed its name to Perfecto Mobile.

The new name highlights Perfecto Mobile's mission and on-going commitment to its customers and partners to improve efficiency and maximize quality in the development, testing and deployment processes of mobile applications and services.