LONDON, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Oxley to discuss results of BuzzBack study on Consumer Attitudes about Environmentalism and 'Being Green'

Martin Oxley, Managing Director Europe of BuzzBack Market Research, will be a speaker at The Green Consumer Conference on Nov. 19 at the Lewis Media Centre in London.

LONDON, October 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Egypt was awarded the prestigious title of Outsourcing Destination of the Year at the National Outsourcing Association's 2008 Awards held in London, beating rivals Philippines and Romania to the accolade.

The CEO of Egypt's Information Technology Industry Development Agency, (ITIDA) Dr. Hazem Abdelazim, received the award on behalf of his government during a glamorous ceremony at the Park Plaza Riverbank.

More than 350 high-level executives and outsourcing professionals attended the event, hosted by comedian presenter Dominic Holland.

College students are under quite a bit of pressure these days. Trust me, I know. Working to make enough for tuition, fighting with endless hours of homework and worrying about living expenses on top of the exam you have to study for... it can be quite overwhelming. With all the complaints of stress affecting a student's academic performance, University of Minnesota researchers decided to test the reliability behind them.

It seems not everyone can forget the "Friends" television show.   Angelina Jolie may have gotten Brad Pitt but Jennifer Aniston is the one with her own namesake neuron.

Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, neuroscientist and bio-engineer, whose research was recently cited among the top papers in the world, is to reveal details of his studies into what has been dubbed the ‘Jennifer Aniston neuron’ during a public presentation at the University of Leicester.

Political polls show Barack Obama ahead in the minds of confirmed voters but a nebulous grey area, the 'undecided' voter, coupled with margin of error, means anything can happen

Political parties spend a great deal of money trying to appeal who declare themselves undecided and there is a great deal of research that goes into figuring them out. The biggest question for psychologists; do undecided voters actually make their choices before they realize? University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek and colleagues set out to find an answer.

LONDON, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Hiring Managers Share the Most Unusual and Most Common CV Mistakes and Offer Tips for Creating an Effective CV

Is your CV more fact or fiction? While only 12 per cent of workers in the United Kingdom say they have lied on a CV, 46 per cent of employers say they have caught a lie on a CV according to a new CareerBuilder.co.uk survey of employers and workers in the UK. Of those employers who caught a lie, 42 per cent automatically dismissed the applicant and 48 per cent still considered the candidate, but did not hire him/her.

CareerBuilder asked hiring managers to share the most memorable or outrageous mistakes they came across on CVs. Examples include:

LONDON, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Chiltern, a leading global clinical research organization, announced that it is a nominee on this year's shortlist for the SCRIP Awards in the Best Contract Research Organization category. The winners will be announced at the fourth annual SCRIP awards ceremony on December 10, at the London Hilton on Park Lane.

I am delighted that Chiltern made the shortlist for this esteemed award, commented Glenn Kerkhof, Chiltern's CEO. This nomination provides recognition for the overall achievements that Chiltern and its employees have accomplished during this past year.

SAO PAULO, Brazil, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- SMS and MMS Messages Represent Over Half of all Data Traffic

Acision, the world's leading messaging company, celebrates the first anniversary of its Latin America offices, with a market share of over 80%. Conservative estimates are that by 2011 the mobile messaging market in Latin America will have grown by a further 25 per cent.

Acision's messaging solutions support 31 operators across the 35 countries in Latin America. This includes 9 of the top 10 market leaders who together have a combined market share of over 85% of the Latin American mobile data services market, according to information from Teleco.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, October 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Hiring Managers Share the Most Unusual and Most Common Resume Mistakes and Offer Tips for Creating an Effective Resume

Is your resume more fact or fiction? While only 8 percent of workers in Sweden say they have lied on a resume, 46 percent of employers say they have caught a lie on a resume according to a new Jobbguiden.se survey of employers and workers in Sweden. Of those employers who caught a lie, 54 percent automatically dismissed the applicant and 31 percent still considered the candidate, but did not hire him/her.

Jobbguiden asked hiring managers to share the most memorable or outrageous mistakes they came across on resumes. Examples include:

Rising carbon dioxide levels in the world's oceans could deliver a disastrous blow to the ability of coral reefs to withstand climate change.

A major new investigation by Australian scientists has revealed that acidification of the oceans from human CO2 emissions has the potential to worsen the impact of the bleaching and death of reef-building organisms expected to occur under global warming.

The study, by a team led by Dr Ken Anthony of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and the University of Queensland, published in this week's Proceedings of the (US) National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) concludes that earlier research may significantly understate the likely damage to the world's reefs caused by man-made change to the Earth's atmosphere.