HITCHIN, England, September 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The 'Impact of Flu in the Workplace' conference is bringing together, for the first time, leading experts from occupational health, medicine and the NHS to review the value of flu vaccination undertaken by employers as well as providing an update on related issue such as the overall risk of pandemic flu and its impact to the UK workforce.

ROSEAU, Commonwealth of Dominica, September 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuftec Limited, the proprietor of a new, highly successful technology producing greener fuel (the original nano-particulate cerium oxide fuel catalyst previously sold by Oxonica as Envirox(TM)), announced today that the High Court successfully upheld Neuftec's license rights in the face of a claim brought by Oxonica Energy Limited. Oxonica Energy is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxonica PLC, the Aim-listed Oxford University spin-out, chaired by former Dragon's Den TV star Richard Farleigh. Since 2002 Envirox(TM) has represented approximately 95% of Oxonica PLC's sales.

ROUSSET, France, September 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Institute of Embedded Systems, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Personalizes CAP for UWB Applications

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and the Institute of Embedded Systems (InES), Zurich University of Applied Sciences, announced today the availability of an Ultra Wideband (UWB) transceiver that InES has implemented by personalizing Atmel's AT91CAP9S Customizable Microcontroller. The CAP(TM) implements the logic of the UWB Media Access Controller (MAC) in its metal programmable block, driven by software running on the embedded ARM926EJ-S(TM) processor.

NEW YORK, September 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- US$50 Million Launch of Financial Social Network Meettheboss.com Will Change the way we do Business

NEW YORK, September 5 /PRNewswire/ --

The financial services community is facing bad news. Its institutions are creaking, its belief is crumbling, and regulation is getting tighter. Finally, there is a silver lining.

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A new website is being launched for the financial services community, and it stands to change the way executives communicate, forever.

LUGANO, Switzerland, September 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The 33rd ESMO Congress in Stockholm, the premier European congress in Oncology, serves as a meeting place for medical oncologists, as well as a focal point to exchange ideas with colleagues from other disciplines.

The Congress Centre will be the venue for interdisciplinary interaction, a teaching ground, and a place to discuss critical issues for European oncology such as cancer research in Europe, the training of young oncologists and better integration of medical oncology with other specialties and patient advocacy groups.

LONDON, September 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Doctors need to pay special attention to people with migraine with aura as they could be at increased risk of stroke or heart attack, a London conference heard today (Friday 5 September).

Professor Tobias Kurth, a leading neuroepidemiologist from Harvard Medical School, USA, has found the links between migraine with aura and cardiovascular events are now so strong that GPs need to take them seriously.

Unlike the social sciences, which are overwhelmingly women, and life sciences, which are about 50-50, the hard sciences have a true gender disparity and the search is always on for reasons why.

Most parents and many teachers believe that if middle-school and high-school girls show no interest in science or math, there's little anyone can do about it but new research indicates that self-confidence instilled by parents and teachers is more important for young girls than their initial interest.

While interest is certainly a factor in getting older girls to study and pursue a career in these disciplines, more attention should be given to building confidence in their abilities early in their education, says University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Distinguished Professor Nadya Fouad. She is one of the authors of a three-year study aimed at identifying supports and barriers that steer girls toward or away from science and math during their education.

It's a high-priority question for members of organizations like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Research Council as they ponder how to improve the numbers of women in STEM careers – science, technology, engineering and math.

In HDTV, increased resolution and picture clarity brings with it an increased volume of data so the tiniest disruptions could mean a distortion in the picture or a loss in signal entirely.

An extension of the H.264/AVC format called SVC (scalable video coding) claims to fix that.

Protecting data packets so they are not at risk during transmission poses a serious problem for developers of video coding techniques. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, HHI in Berlin are therefore working to improve standardized video coding techniques such as the H.264/AVC format, which is used by the YouTube video portal and Apple's QuickTime player, for example. If an Internet node is overloaded, for instance, data packets are randomly discarded during transmission. This causes a jerky picture.

If you can’t help but sing your heart out with your best friend when you hear Aladdin's A Whole New World or Johnny Cash and June Carter’s Jackson, maybe you can learn a thing or two about duets from birds. Vocal duets in the animal kingdom have long been known to occur in animals like birds, primates, and whales. But despite much research, the answer to why animals duet has been elusive and controversial. Research by Dr. Daniel Mennill, an Associate Professor at the University of Windsor in Ontario, is helping to change that with some pretty technical equipment, one duet at a time. Daniel Mennill studying duetting wrens in the humid Santa Rosa forests of Costa Rica. Photo Credit: Dale Morris.

Free drug samples provided to physicians by pharmaceutical companies could actually be costing uninsured patients more in the long run, according to a study done by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues.

The retrospective study looked at the prescribing habits of more than 70 physicians in a university-affiliated internal medicine practice in the months immediately before and after the closing of their drug sample closet. The results indicate that the availability of free samples from pharmaceutical companies greatly impacts whether an uninsured patient is given a prescription for a generic or a brand-name drug. The complete findings can be found in the September issue of Southern Medical Journal.