CLEVELAND Ohio, and WASHINGTON DC, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Simulation Technology Leader and the Leading Developer of Simulation-based Healthcare Training Platforms Form Cooperative Agreement

Simbionix USA Corporation and B-Line Medical, LLC, today announced a strategic agreement enabling the data integration of Simbionix Mentor(TM) simulation systems with B-Line Medical's SimCapture(R) product.

The collaboration will combine Simbionix' unique data collected during a simulation session with video streams into the SimCapture system for debriefing, assessing and centralizing multiple types of simulated encounters.

LONDON, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- VocaLink, the European payment specialist and central provider of services to the UK's Bacs, Faster Payments and LINK transactions, has announced today it has received an investment of GBP60 million in equity capital from its shareholders. This new funding will strengthen its resilient services for existing clients while supporting the company's continued growth in Europe.

BRUGG, Switzerland, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Plans for an Area Covering Over 10,000 m2 and a Modern Office Block

- Note:Picture will be distributed Europe-wide and can be downloaded under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100009189 -

Toddlers with autism appear more likely to have an enlarged amygdala, a brain area associated with numerous functions, including the processing of faces and emotion, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. In addition, this brain abnormality appears to be associated with the ability to share attention with others, a fundamental ability thought to predict later social and language function in children with autism.

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

Lewtan Technologies, Inc., provider of ABSNet, the industry's leading source for asset-backed securities surveillance data, analytics, software, and content for the global securitisation industry, today announced that Thomson Reuters will utilize its ABSNet cashflow library to expand their Valuation Risk Service. This will give Thomson Reuters clients additional coverage of structured finance instruments in Europe in order to help strengthen transparency and develop better evaluated prices in the marketplace in light of the current financial crisis.

It's certainly the case that 'dark matter', like 'Smurf' or 'government regulation', has in recent times become a de facto explanation for the unexplained.   We aren't big believers in magic so mysterious, undetected forces that explain everything probably actually explain nothing - and tossing out Newton in the process  brings on a higher order of scrutiny, since he has been declared irrelevant often before only to survive quite nicely.

Dark matter is currently unable to reconcile all the current discrepancies between measurements and predictions based on theoretical models and competing theories of gravitation have therefore been developed - their problem is that they conflict with Newton's theory of gravitation.

If you want to learn a little something about 'characteristic curvature', you're in the right place.   Hydrophilic surfactants love water, but lipophilic surfactants love oils and dislike water.

Okay, if you were expecting an article about Jessica Alba, you can stop reading.

But if chemistry is your thing, a new research protocol developed by Dr. Acosta and colleagues from the University of Toronto's Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry builds on more than 30 years of phase behavior studies of microemulsions, the clear, stable liquid mixtures of oil, water and surfactant, and the concept of hydrophilic-lipophilic difference.

KENT, Washington, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Sale Positions Company to Accelerate Execution of Its Successful Growth Strategy

With hot, new technologies, biologists are taking higher-resolution snapshots of what's going on inside the cell, but the results are stirring up controversy. One of the most interesting recent discoveries is that transcription is everywhere: DNA is transcribed into RNA all over the genome, even DNA that has long been thought to have a non-functional role. What is all of this transcription for? Does the 'dark matter' of the genome have some cryptic, undiscovered function?

BOSTON ––– In a new study of terminally ill cancer patients, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that those who draw on religion to cope with their illness are more likely to receive intensive, life-prolonging medical care as death approaches –– treatment that often entails a lower quality of life in patients' final days.

Previous research has shown that more religious patients often prefer aggressive end-of-life (EOL) treatment. The new study –– to be published in the March 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association –– examined whether these patients actually receive such care. The study's findings suggest that physicians tend to comply with religious patients' wishes for more aggressive care.