KING OF PRUSSIA, Pennsylvainia and LEXINGTON, Massachusetts, January 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- Acquisition Expands Size and Scope of GSI's Interactive Marketing Services Capabilities in U.S. and Europe; e-Dialog to Operate as Stand-Alone Subsidiary

CLAREMONT, California, January 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- FAWE Increases Educational Access, Retention and Performance for Girls in 33 African Nations

Claremont McKenna College and the Kravis Leadership Institute announced today the selection of The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), to receive the third annual Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership.

The Kravis Prize, which carries a US$250,000 award designated to the honoree organization, recognizes extraordinary leadership in the nonprofit sector. FAWE was selected for its outstanding record providing an estimated 12 million girls and women with access to education, thereby contributing to improving their standard of economic and social well being.

NUREMBERG, Germany, January 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- OSBF Presents the Open Source Business Award 2008

LONDON, January 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- With Over Two Million Impressions, Campaign Illustrates the Power of Online Video Advertising to Build Stronger Brand Awareness

Real Time Content (RTC), a leader in Adaptive Media, today announced the results of an interactive online adaptive media campaign conducted during October with Nationwide Building Society, a leading financial institution in the UK. The adaptive video campaign quadrupled click-through rates for product offerings versus traditional video campaigns online. The campaign provided nearly 2,000,000 impressions and delivered more than a 100,000 adaptive video adverts.

HAIFA, Israel, January 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) (the "Company" or "ORL"), Israel's largest oil refiner, announced today that a wholly owned foreign subsidiary of Carmel Olefins Ltd. (a private company in which ORL holds 50%, hereinafter: "COL") signed an agreement to acquire 49% of the outstanding share capital of Domo Polypropylene BV (hereinafter: "Domo").

MOSCOW, January 24 /PRNewswire/ --

Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces the appointment of Mukhamed Tsikanov as its Senior Vice President on Economics and Management.

Previously, Mr. Tsikanov (52) was Acting General Director of Mechel's Yakutugol OJSHC subsidiary. In his new position, Mr. Tsikanov will be responsible for the strategic development of Mechel OAO's economic and management organization, management accounts policies and planning, and implementation of internal management and control systems.

LONDON, January 24 /PRNewswire/ -- CNBC Europe, has announced the shortlist of nominations for the European Business Leaders Awards (EBLA) 2008.

The Awards programme, which is presented by CNBC Europe and for the first time conducted in partnership with the Financial Times, is now in its fifth year and was created to identify and honour those CEOs who are making a difference through leadership and innovation in their industry sectors. The EBLA 2008 winners will be announced at a special gala dinner and ceremony in London on 13 March 2008.

The shortlist of nominations for the European Business Leaders Awards 2008 are:

TEL AVIV, Israel, January 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Solves Enterprise Level Development Complexities and Security Challenges of AJAX by Providing an Open Source Solution With no Client Dependency and Proven Reductions in Development Time of Over 80%

Visual WebGui, developer of the AJAX enterprise application development and deployment platform, today announces the availability of their enhanced browser-based solution.

SAN JOSE, California, January 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- MIC94064/65 Series Aimed At Battery-Powered Consumer and Industrial Apps Requiring Small Footprint and Enhanced Power Management

Scientists have discovered that mice genetically engineered to lack the VGLUT3 protein in the brain have profound deafness and seizures. The finding suggests a pathway for exploring the hereditary causes of deafness and epilepsy in humans.

More broadly, the discovery provides an entry point for gaining new insight into the role of glutamate, the chemical messenger carried by the protein, says the team, led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco. Glutamate is involved in virtually every brain function, including sensory perception, learning and memory.

The missing protein is a particular “vesicular neurotransmitter transporter,” a machine within nerve cells that ferries chemical messengers, or “neurotransmitters,” from the fluid-filled cytoplasm into vesicles that are positioned at the tips of nerve cells and serve to release neurotransmitters onto neighboring cells. Transporters and neurotransmitters work together to make possible essentially all neural communication in the brain.