PHILADELPHIA, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Content Provides Marketplace Context to Support Business Decisions

Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the addition of authoritative business and news content to Thomson Innovation(SM) (www.thomsoninnovation.com), the new standard in intellectual property research and analysis. Combining business and news information with comprehensive patent data and scientific literature, Thomson Innovation provides the most complete resource for prior art and competitive intelligence research.

LAS VEGAS, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Registration, full schedule now available at www.WaterSmartInnovations.com

"Early bird" full conference registration is underway until July 11 for the inaugural WaterSmart Innovations Conference and Exposition, Oct. 8-10, 2008, in Las Vegas.

A discounted rate of US$330 is available through the conference's Web site, http://www.WaterSmartInnovations.com. After July 11, full conference registration will increase to US$390. WaterSmart Innovations will be held at the South Point Hotel & Casino, at the south end of the famed Las Vegas Strip.

Magnetic confinement fusion could be a safe, environmentally friendly way to provide a substantial part of the world’s energy needs in the 21st century but before that can happen science needs to understand the complex behavior of hot collisionless plasmas (ion gases) in strong magnetic fields.

Such plasmas are subject to temperature and density gradient driven microturbulence which leads to particle and heat losses and tends to keep the plasma from reaching a "burning" state.

Simulations are necessary if we are to understand and control plasma microturbulence but, because fusion plasmas are virtually collisionless, a three-dimensional (i.e., in space) fluid description must, in principle, be abandoned, in favor of a six-dimensional (i.e., in phase space) kinetic one.

BURBANK, California, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

The Walt Disney Studios will celebrate Earth Day 2009 (April 22nd) with the debut of "Earth," the first feature-length nature documentary from its new production banner, Disneynature. This amazing new film is from award-winning British producer/director Alastair Fothergill, whose credits include the Emmy and Peabody award-winning "Planet Earth" series (BBC and The Discovery Channel) and "The Blue Planet."

LONDON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) will highlight its broadband wireless capability at the British Association of Public Safety Communications Officers (BAPCO) annual conference and exhibition to be held at 23-24 April 2008 at the Business Design Centre, London.

Northrop Grumman together with NextWave Wireless will be located at stand B37.

John Erdman, a University of Illinois professor of food science and human nutrition who also chairs the Mars, Inc. Scientific Advisory Council and has received millions in funding from Mars, Inc., recognizes that taking money from a candy bar company (Mars Inc.) to do a study of their (Mars Inc.) candy bar proving it is healthy will have skeptics.

Not here. Hey, if Philip-Morris wants to highlight a study saying cigarettes cure cancer or Exxon-Mobil needs to promote a study saying automobile carbon monoxide improves asthma, we won't ridicule them just because of the funding. We'll ridicule them because of the methodology.

“Eating two CocoaVia dark chocolate bars a day not only lowered cholesterol, it had the unexpected effect of also lowering systolic blood pressure,” said Erdman on the results of a peer-reviewed study in The Journal of Nutrition.

Except the participants were also put on the American Heart Association’s “Eating Plan for Healthy Americans” (the Step 1 diet) two weeks before the study started.

REDWOOD CITY, California, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Ceon today announced the launch of its innovative Rapid Product Modeling (RPM) service. The Ceon RPM service enables Communication Service Provider business executives to quickly, easily, and more importantly, economically, take the required initial steps to begin the product management transformation process across their enterprise.

Line-of-business executives within communications service providers have recognized the strategic imperative to transform their enterprise product management processes to support the rapid delivery of differentiated converged products. Furthermore, most have recognized the need to eventually adopt purpose-built product lifecycle management (PLM) and product catalog solutions.

LONDON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The MS Society has launched this week's MS Week 2008 with a series of new adverts featuring images and words of people with multiple sclerosis (MS).

The four new adverts encourage people living with the condition to explore the help that is out there, whether through the MS Society's branch network, self management courses, through online support forums, or via personalised care.

MS Society chief executive Simon Gillespie said: "These latest adverts feature a group of inspiring people living with MS, talking about the way it has affected their lives and what they have done to fight back.

CAMBRIDGE, England, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Beremans Ltd (http://www.beremans.com), a Cambridge (UK)-based company that provides business intelligence services for the Life Sciences sector, announced today the publication of a report covering issues related to cardiotoxicity and drug development. The report discusses methods, products and services designed to identify cardiotoxic compounds before they reach the market; discusses the current and possible future regulatory environment; outlines main commercial competitors; and suggests broad types of commercial opportunity in this subsector. The primary focus is on identification of drug-induced proarrhythmia, but some discussion is provided on identification of other forms of cardiotoxicity.

LONDON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- ICIS (http://www.icis.com), the world's leading information provider for the global chemical and oil industry, announces two new entry categories for the ICIS Innovation Awards 2008 (http://www.icis.com/awards), sponsored by Dow Corning (http://www.dowcorning.com). The awards are designed to recognise those companies that have made significant steps forward through R&D and innovation.

The awards, now in their fifth year, recognise outstanding innovation in the chemical industry and allow companies to celebrate their success in this vital arena. This year, ICIS and Dow Corning have introduced two new categories, reflecting the wider corporate role of innovation in the industry.