NORTHBROOK, Illinois, April 10 /PRNewswire/ --

On April 14-17, 2009, Underwriters Laboratories Inc.'s (UL) Primary Designated Engineer (PDE) Steve McRoberts and GMA Certification Department Manager Jola Wroblewska will present International Electrotechnical Committee for Conformity Testing to Standards for Electrical Equipment (IECEE) CB Test Laboratories and National Certification Bodies (NCBs) with IEC 60601-1:2005 3rd Edition training to promote common application of the guidelines prepared by the IECEE Risk Management Task Force (RMTF).

MUMBAI, April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- A major thrust for electronics manufacturing in recent years has paved the way for a significant influx of original equipment manufacturers and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) companies in India. Today most of the global majors in EMS have a presence in the country. The growing demand in manufacturing of electronic products directly influences the sale of surface mount technologies (SMT) equipment. The SMT equipment market is witnessing steady growth bolstered by the demand from various end user sectors such as communications, consumer, industrial, automotive and medical where electronics penetration has been on the rise.

STOCKHOLM, April 10 /PRNewswire/ --

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Rebtel, the people's global communications company, today slashed in half its rates to Nigeria so Nigerians living abroad can call their loved ones at home for just 9.9 cents per minute.

It's the best of all the networks I have ever tried, said Daniel Mejabi, an English teacher at Lanzhou Jiatong University, in Beijing. Added Harmony Home, a Nigerian entrepreneur in New York City: I love Rebtel. It's genuine, and a real value for the money. Rebtel doesn't charge when the line is busy nor when there's no answer. Other phone companies do. Long live Rebtel!

LONDON, April 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Just 20% of Women now Expect Their Partner to Earn More Money Than They do, With 83% Preferring Equality Over Financial Dependency

- 40% of single Women Wouldn't Date a Man who was Unemployed

- British Single Men Have the Lowest Love Expectations in Europe, but Value Brains Over Beauty

- On Average, With the Exception of two Criteria - Good Looks and a Toned Body - Women Set a Higher Standard Than men in all Aspects of a Potential Partner

It's official: when it comes to dating and relationships, women really do set higher standards than men. But with 40% of women claiming not to have had a relationship for more than three years, could high standards be holding them back from finding a partner?

MUMBAI, April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The availability of skilled resources has powered industrial expansion, and consequently, has fuelled consumerist lifestyles across all income groups in India. The hospitality, electrical, and electronics sectors have also grown at a fast clip, generating large amounts of waste that must be tackled in an environmentally sound manner. This pile-up of municipal, industrial, biomedical, and electronic waste is one of the fallouts of India's impressive GDP growth.

Universities, with a young  constituency and an employee base of academics interested in new discoveries and ways of communication, should have embraced social media early - but they have not and if they don't embrace new techniques in pedagogy they risk becoming seen as anachronisms in today’s hyper-connected world where information is available freely, says a University of Illinois expert who studies the knowledge economy’s effect on higher education.

Earthstock, Stony Brook University’s 8th annual week long awareness-raising celebration of Earth Day, kicks off at 10 am on Friday, April 17 with a full day of entertainment, food, refreshments, environmentally-oriented activities and visual displays situated all around the Academic Mall. 

It is a fact of science that people who consume fewer calories than they burn will lose weight.  It is 100 percent effective.   But it is equally well-known that some people cannot do that and neuroscience has yet to find a reasonable explanation for it.

For those who truly cannot lose weight by a disciplined approach to diet and exercise, surgery is a last resort but Nick Nicholson, M.D., weight loss surgeon on the medical staff at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano,  says outside the usual benefits, surgery can actually improve other health conditions. 

Here are 5 other improvements weight loss surgery can bring:

If words were people, then "eloquent," "love" and "symphony" would get dates most Friday nights but "vomit," "moist" and "puke" would stay home alone, wondering what went wrong. 

How are words pretty or ugly? That's the question Robert E. Wolverton Sr., a Mississippi State University classics professor, recently asked in a survey of some 75 students in his classes. The poll is part of the foreign language faculty member's "semi-frequent" examination of how students at the land-grant university view widely used terms. 

Of the 148 different "beautiful" words submitted by students this year are several listed multiple times: eloquent (six), love (four) and symphony (four). Beautiful, lavender and tranquility each received three mentions. 

A magnitude 8.0. earthquake destroyed 90 percent of the city of Pisco, Peru on August 16, 2007. The event killed 595 people, while another 318 were missing. Tsunami waves were observed locally, off the shore of Chile, and as far away as New Zealand. 

In a study published in the Geophysical Journal International, scientists from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Oxford (U.K.) have analyzed data on this earthquake and its impact on regional topography. Using InSAR-based geodetic data and teleseismic data, the scientists were able to use satellite images to identify details of this major plate boundary event.