LONDON and PLANO, Texas, October 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- IT Consulting Services Veteran Ferenc Szelenyi Joins Company to Lead Growth

Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE: PER) (http://www.perotsystems.com) today announced the appointment of Ferenc Szelenyi as Managing Director for the company's EMEA region. In his new role, Mr. Szelenyi will serve as Perot Systems' senior leader in Europe and the Middle East, primarily responsible for leading the company's business development and market expansion. He will report directly to Perot Systems Chief Operating Officer, Russell Freeman.

LONDON, October 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Edition of BODY WORLDS Exhibition Features a Special Presentation on the Human Life Cycle and Ageing

BODY WORLDS The Mirror of Time, the new exhibition from physician and pioneering anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens, makes its world premiere at The O2 bubble tomorrow, Friday 24 October, 2008. It features a special presentation on the human life cycle and more than 200 plastinates - specimens preserved through Plastination, the remarkable scientific process invented and perfected by Dr. von Hagens. The exhibition will run until 23 August 2009.

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HAMBURG, Germany, October 23 /PRNewswire/ -- AVEVA (LSE:AVV), the leading supplier of engineering IT systems for the plant and marine industries today announced that the world-renowned Nobiskrug shipyard in Rendsburg, Germany, has recently signed a contract to implement AVEVA Marine at the shipyard.

Nobiskrug shipyard, one of the leading builders of megayachts, has for many years been using production data supplied by subcontractors using AVEVA software but with this latest software purchase now has the opportunity not only to make last minute modifications to data delivered by suppliers but also to actively participate in the development of the structural steel data.

Making a selection at a sushi bar used to simply be about deciding how adventurous you wanted to be, and making sure to steer clear of the deadly poisonous puffer fish (unless you really trusted your sushi chef).  But now a whole new list of selection criteria has come into play --  based less on which fish is most appetizing, and more on which fish is most sustainable.

LONDON and THE HAGUE, Netherlands, October 23 /PRNewswire/ --

IntraLinks, the world's leading provider of online workspaces for secure document exchange, and Doxis Informatiemanagers, an independent subsidiary of Ernst Young that provides information management advisory services, today announce a strategic partnership. The alliance is the result of the collaboration between IntraLinks and Doxis that began three years ago in the Benelux market, providing due diligence services for MA deals.

NERVIANO, Italy, October 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Responses in Solid Tumours Reported.

Warm hands, cold heart?   Not when it's our own hands that are warm.   Our judgment of a person's character can be influenced by something as simple as the warmth of the drink we're holding.   It makes sense; everyone is friendlier if they have a cup of coffee in their hand.

Sounding the Sun through a technique similar to seismology has opened a new era for understanding the Sun’s interior. The CNES/ESA COROT satellite has now applied this technique to three stars, directly probing the interiors of stars beyond the Sun for the first time.
 
When global oscillations of the Sun were discovered, scientists realised they opened a window to the Sun’s interior. Like the propagation of seismic waves on Earth providing information about our planet’s interior, sound waves travel throughout the Sun carrying information about what is happening below the surface. 

In the UK, the government has chosen the vaccine Cervarix for their human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program.

But actual UK doctors choose Gardisal for their own children, says Phil Hammond, general practitioner, writer, and broadcaster, on bmj.com today.

The reason has nothing to do with the effectiveness of either vaccine, but rather with genital warts.    "You’d be mad not to protect your daughter against genital warts if you can afford to." he quotes Peter Greenhouse, a sexual health consultant, as saying.   

In a study of medical students, more serious cardiac risk estimates were given to Christians and less serious estimates for Muslims despite the patients being otherwise identical in their characteristics and symptoms, according to research in an upcoming issue of Medical Decision Making.

Risk assessment, the first step in a medical triage process, determines subsequent treatment.

In the study, led by Jamie Arndt, PhD, of the University of Missouri-Columbia, randomly chosen university medical students were asked to answer questions about their own mortality. Afterward, all the study participants inspected fictitious emergency room admittance forms for Muslim and Christian patients complaining of chest pain, and risk assessments were made for each patient.