LONDON, January 13 /PRNewswire/ --
- Global Challenge Offers Engineering Students and Professionals Rare Opportunities to Bring Their Designs to the Marketplace
LONDON, January 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Excelsior Professional Search, a leading niche Executive Search company for financial technology solution providers, celebrates its tenth year of operation in 2009. Excelsior specialises in searches for mid to senior level appointments for technology vendors, consultancies, information and service providers in the global banking and securities industry. With clear market focus and expertise, Excelsior offers a deep sector knowledge and capability that the more generalist search companies are unable to provide.
LONDON, January 13 /PRNewswire/ --
Based on its recent analysis of the autoimmune disease diagnostics markets, Frost Sullivan recognizes Toscana Biomarkers with the 2008 European Frost Sullivan Excellence in Research Award. The company demonstrated that the incorporation of synthetically modified peptides for the validation and discovery of biomarkers aids effective diagnosis of autoimmune diseases and is also looking to adopt robust methods to identify novel diagnostic solutions.
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- Commercial License to Accelerate Development of New Hemostasis Breakthrough Products
SAN FRANCISCO, January 13 /PRNewswire/ --
- Footage for film fanatics at www.blinkx.com
blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with MyMovies.Net (http://www.mymovies.net), the complete and essential online movie destination in the U.K. Over 3,000 of the company's premium film-related clips are now more easily accessible than ever before, courtesy of blinkx.
XMM-Newton has caught the fading glow of a tiny celestial object, revealing its rotation rate for the first time. The new information confirms this particular object as one of an extremely rare class of stellar zombie – each one the dead heart of a star that refuses to die.
The official State Dinosaur of Texas is up for a new name, based on Southern Methodist University research that proved the titleholder has been misidentified. State Rep. Charles Geren of Fort Worth filed a resolution Jan. 7 to change the name of the state dinosaur from Pleurocoelus to Paluxysaurus jonesi to correctly name the massive sauropod whose tracks and bones litter the central Texas Jones Ranch. Peter Rose is the scientist behind the name change: His master's level study of dinosaur bones at SMU eventually led him to dispute the long-accepted notion that the large, sauropod bones found in and around the Paluxy River near Glen Rose, Texas, were the same as Pleurocoelus bones first found in Maryland in the late 1800s.
A lot of time and money is spent thinking about special needs children, says Florida State University professor Steven I. Pfeiffer, while there is an assumption that no educational resources need to be provided for 'gifted' kids to help them thrive in school.
"There is a view occasionally expressed by those outside of the gifted field that we don't need programs devoted specifically to gifted students," Pfeiffer, member of the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, said. "'Oh, they're smart, they'll do fine on their own' is what we often hear. And because of this anti-elitist attitude, it's often difficult to get funding for programs and services that help us to develop some of our brightest, most advanced kids -- America's most valuable resource."
If you've been watching in awe as ethanol, the renewable fuel adored by environmentalists and endorsed by politicians including Al Gore, has raised prices on food and done nothing to combat emissions, you may be skeptical about new claims of green gasoline.
Not so fast. Biomass may still be the answer, say University of Oklahoma researchers, and they won't require changes to current fuel infrastructure systems. Lance Lobban, director of the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, says "green" fuels can still be an important part of our energy future.
Never underestimate the ability of companies to let you believe you're doing a good thing if they can make a buck. It was once said classical music was good for kids - in a bizarre, isolated 'correlation is causation' way - so a company decided that a TV show with classical music in the background would make infants smarter and the "Baby Einstein" juggernaut was born. Was there any evidence for it? No, but there is evidence against it, and a child expert is warning parents to limit the amount of television children watch before the age of two, after an extensive review of 78 studies published over the last 25 years and published in the January issue of Acta Paediatrica. It can do more harm than good to their ongoing development.
