CHICAGO, August 26 /PRNewswire/ --

Accertify, http://www.accertify.com, a provider of leading-edge fraud prevention solutions to online retailers, today announced that Urban Outfitters, Inc. has selected its Interceptas solution to combat online credit card fraud and ensure a high-quality shopping experience for customers.

"Urban Outfitters' success is driven by our commitment to understand our customers and connect with them on an emotional level," said John Kyees, Urban Outfitters' Chief Financial Officer. "When shopping on our websites, customers want a quick and hassle-free experience. Taking a tougher stance against e-commerce fraud helps us maintain our customers' trust and provide the smooth and easy experience they expect online."

BERLIN, August 26 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the most successful "free 2 play" online games publishers in the United States, Aeria Games, has officially announced that it is opening its European headquarters in Germany. Its European subsidiary, Aeria Games GmbH, will be located in Berlin, the German capital. Since the company's founding in Silicon Valley in 2006, it already has gained over three million players.

Rogue prefers his steak medium-well. But when it comes to sniffing out a rare plant, this dog performs work that’s very well done, indeed.

The 4-year-old Belgian sheepdog is part of a Nature Conservancy collaborative project to test the efficacy of using dogs to sniff out the threatened Kincaid’s lupine . The plant is host to the endangered Fender’s blue butterfly, found only in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

Five years ago, Edith had a problem: Her goldfish of 25 years, Mr. Fish, had dropsy, a disease characterized by a swollen or hollow abdomen and in most cases fatal. In her last attempt to save her pet, on a whim, Edith wrote a message on GoldfishConnection asking for help.

Rick G. Copeland, the specialist at the goldfish site, recommended some Medi-Gold pellets. Two years later, at age 27, Mr. Fish swam around his tank as if his close call with death never happened.

Mr. Fish may not have the 49 year-old record of the oldest goldfish ever, but he's working on it. In the meantime, Mr. Fish is competing with the millions of other pet goldfish around the world.

Was Hippasus pushed? If you are even mildly interested in the history of mathematics, it is likely that you will have heard something like the following story. The Pythagoreans (who were also into music in a big way) worshipped numbers, and believed them to be the basis of everything. If one were to do a modern caricature of this, it might go:

  Do you believe in Rock ’n’ Roll?
  Can mathematics save your soul?

By numbers, they meant whole numbers or positive integers. Whether this included ‘one’ is a moot point, because later Greek mathematicians regarded ‘one’ as the ‘generator of numbers’. One day, a man called Hippasus discovered that the square root of 2 was irrational. This went so much against the Pythagorean world view that they took him out to sea and threw him overboard. It didn’t stop there, though.

MUMBAI, India, August 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tata Interactive Learning Forum (TLF) to discuss the convergence of technology in education and how technology will be impacting the market in the coming years

Industry leaders believe that technology is transforming the delivery of education right from K-12 to Universities at a rapid pace. Its introduction and integration will provide institutions an edge, despite the uncertainties posed by the global economy. The TLF (http://www.tatalearningforum.com), to be held in Chicago Gleacher Center on October 17, aims to provide a clear direction to the Education market with insights on product strategies, 2.0 business models, and unlocking the intelligence in organizational data silos.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, August 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Six days left to submit nominations before August 31st deadline

WHAT: Masdar, Abu Dhabi's landmark program to develop sustainable solutions to meet the world's future energy demand, has established an international awards program designed to recognize innovation and leadership in the global search for future energy solutions -- the Zayed Future Energy Prize.

The Zayed Future Energy Prize recognizes individuals, organizations, companies and NGOs who are advancing innovation in the field of clean energy and sustainable development.

Conservation zones, or 'No-take areas' (NTAs), that were set up to protect fish in the late 1960s and early 1970s are in the wrong place to protect vulnerable coral reefs from the effects of global warming, an international team of scientists warned today.

Now the team, led jointly by Newcastle University and the Wildlife Conservation Society, say that urgent action is needed to prevent the collapse of this important marine ecosystem.

The research is the largest study of its kind to have been carried out, covering 66 sites across seven countries and spanning over a decade in the Indian Ocean.

LONDON, August 26 /PRNewswire/ --

IDIS, the world leader in the development and implementation of pre-launch Named Patient Programmes (NPPs), announces the opening of a new regional office in Iselin, New Jersey, USA. This office places IDIS in a stronger position to support US based pharmaceutical companies in the implementation of programmes to support early access of their medicines.

Contrary to stereotypes about masculinity, men interviewed in a large international study reported that being seen as honorable, self-reliant and respected was more important to their idea of masculinity than being seen as attractive, sexually active or successful with women.

The study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine included interviews with more than 27,000 randomly selected men from eight countries (Germany, U.S., U.K., Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Italy and France), with about 16 percent of the men reporting erectile problems.

Regardless of age or nationality, the men more frequently ranked good health, harmonious family life and good relationships with their wife or partner as more important to their quality of life than material, self-fulfilling or purely sexual concerns. There was no significant difference in rankings of masculinity and quality of life characteristics between men who experienced erectile dysfunction and those who did not.