LONDON, February 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Misys (FTSE: MSY.L), the global application software and services company, today announces that the OJSC Bank VTB, the second largest bank in Russia with the biggest share of trade finance business in Financing Russian Exports/Imports in 2006 under EBRD Trade Facilitation Program, has successfully gone live with its award-winning trade finance system, Misys Trade Innovation. As a result of this, the bank is expecting to see an increased performance in its trade finance operations and thus deliver more results to its customers.

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- General availability of first announced software-based multi-party HD-video conferencing solution; enables delivery of affordable HD-video conferencing

Global IP Solutions (GIPS), the leading provider of media processing solutions, today announced the general availability of its High-Definition (HD) enabled video conferencing engines for service providers, developers, manufacturers and enterprises.

GIPS' new offering enables organizations to deliver software-based multi-party HD video conferencing. The software-based approach significantly reduces the cost of High Definition video conferencing, making it ideal for consumers or desk-top use in business.

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- The first ever on-demand, hands-on training program for the server virtualization industry is launched by Citrix to train its worldwide channel partners.

Toolwire, a leading innovator of experiential distance learning solutions announces their agreement with Citrix Systems, Inc. to develop and deliver an on-demand lab environment to train Citrix worldwide channel partners.

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ACCESS CO., LTD., a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets, today announced that worldwide deployments of its NetFront(TM) products, notably NetFront(TM) Browser for mobile handsets and information appliances, surpassed 500 million at the end of January, 2008.

Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have reported a 10-fold life extension in the complex animal C. elegans, tiny worms that live in the soil.

Reported in the February 2008 issue of the journal Aging Cell, the discovery was made by a team of researchers headed by Robert Shmookler Reis, professor in the UAMS Departments of Geriatrics, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology and Pharmacology/Toxicology and research scientist at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System.

Continued from Part 6: I interviewed Gary Taubes by phone a few weeks ago, shortly after he gave a talk about the main ideas of his new book — Good Calories, Bad Calories — at UC Berkeley. The interview lasted about 2 hours. This is part 7. SETH ROBERTS: I was a member of the Center for Weight and Health. But the other members didn’t know what I was up to, and had no idea it could have anything to do with actual weight loss.

GARY TAUBES: That’s one of the things I’ve found most amusing about obesity research, that you have this disconnect from pre-World War Two, when the people doing it were clinicians who were treating obese patients, to post-World War Two, where first, it’s nutritionists, who do rat experiments. Then, by the 1960s, obesity is considered an eating disorder and it’s being treated by psychologists and psychiatrists. So today, if you looking at some of the major obesity centers in the country — at Yale, at University of Cincinnati, they’re all run by psychologists or psychiatrists. Here’s a physiological disorder of the body, and it’s being studied by psychologists and psychiatrists. They’re not interested in anecdotal evidence, unless it agrees with their preconceptions.

PRINCETON, New Jersey and UXBRIDGE, England, February 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) today announced results from the CASTLE study, in which 300 mg of once-daily REYATAZ(R) (atazanavir sulfate) taken with 100 mg of ritonavir (REYATAZ/r) showed similar antiviral efficacy to twice-daily lopinavir 400 mg and ritonavir 100 mg (lopinavir/r) in previously untreated adult HIV-1 infected patients at 48 weeks, as part of HIV combination therapy. In this study, 78 percent of the 440 patients in the REYATAZ/r arm met the primary endpoint of achieving undetectable viral load (defined as HIV-1 RNA less than 50 copies/mL) at 48 weeks, compared with 76 percent of the 443 patients in the lopinavir/r arm.

JENA, Germany, February 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Occlutech GmbH, the leading European manufacturer of coronary occlusion devices today announced that it has obtained approval for its IP position in relation to patents held by AGA Medical Inc. from AIPPI, the European International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property.

AIPPI is the world's leading non-government organization for research into and protection of intellectual property, and is a respected source for opinions and arbitration on IP matters such as patent interpretation and the use of IP in unfair competition.

Lice from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru may unravel important clues about a different sort of passage: the migration patterns of America’s earliest humans, a new University of Florida study suggests.

“It’s kind of quirky that a parasite we love to hate can actually inform us how we traveled around the globe,” said David Reed, an assistant curator of mammals at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus and one of the study’s authors.

DNA sequencing found the strain of lice to be genetically the same as the form of body lice that spawns several deadly diseases, including typhus, which was blamed for the loss of Napoleon’s grand army and millions of other soldiers, he said.

Over 70 percent of high school teachers are female and girls in high school take as many math courses as boys, yet it's believed female interest in math and science still wanes considerably in high school and college.

A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Pennsylvania, and Michigan State University published in Child Development says girls, more than boys, look to their close friends when they make important decisions such as whether to take math and what math classes to take, confirming how significant peers are during adolescence.