WAALWIJK, The Netherlands, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Prior to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, which will be held tomorrow 14.00 hours at Hotel NH Waalwijk in Sprang-Capelle, the Management Board of DOCDATA N.V. announces the following.

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DOCDATA N.V. in Waalwijk closed the first quarter 2009 satisfactory. Both the net profit and the operating profit have improved compared to the first quarter 2008.

MUMBAI, India, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

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- SYSTIME (http://www.SYSTIME.net), a leading global consulting and IT services provider, and Oracle today announced a co-development agreement to build Oracle(R) Application Integration Architecture (AIA) ( http://www.oracle.com/applications/oracle-application-integration-archit...) Process Integration Packs for Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) (http://www.oracle.com/applications/agile/index.html) and Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ( http://www.oracle.com/applications/jdedwards-enterprise-one.html)

LONDON, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Dragonfish, the independent B2B division of 888 Holdings Plc, today announces the signing of a strategic agreement with South African based Phumelela Gold Enterprises(PGE), one of the world's largest pari-mutuel horseracing and tote betting organisations, to provide a comprehensive sportsbook offering. The offering will be followed by the introduction of casino, poker, bingo and quickplay games once a more developed regulatory regime is in place in South Africa.

Dragonfish will also distribute globally the Horseracing Pools and Live Racing Streaming from tens of tracks globally for which PGE owns exclusive distribution rights, through Dragonfish licensees and via 888.com.

The oldest submerged town in the world is about to give up its secrets — with the help of equipment that could revolutionise underwater archaeology.

The ancient town of Pavlopetri lies in three to four metres of water just off the coast of southern Laconia in Greece. The ruins date from at least 2800 BC through to intact buildings, courtyards, streets, chamber tombs and some thirty-seven cist graves which are thought to belong to the Mycenaean period (c.1680-1180 BC). This Bronze Age phase of Greece provides the historical setting for much Ancient Greek literature and myth, including Homer’s Age of Heroes.

Bio-oil is an aqueous, acidic, highly oxidized mixture. However, its high oxygen content and instability turn out to have a negative impact: bio-oil cannot be used directly as a liquid fuel. It would, however, be highly interesting as a source of basic raw materials if it were possible to convert it to alkanes. Alkanes, which are also commonly called paraffins, are saturated hydrocarbons; they are among the most important raw materials for chemical industry, and in particular as starting materials for the production of plastics. Furthermore, they are among the primary fuels in the world's economy.

Rare traits persist in a population because predators detect common forms of prey more easily. Researchers writing in BMC Ecology found that birds will target salamanders that look like the majority – even reversing their behavior in response to alterations in the ratio of a distinguishing trait. 

The discovery of a gruesome feeding frenzy that played out 73 million years ago in northwestern Alberta may also lead to the discovery of new dinosaur species in northwestern Alberta.

University of Alberta student Tetsuto Miyashita and Frederico Fanti, a paleontology graduate student from Italy, made the discovery near Grande Prairie, 450 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. 

GIBRALTAR, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

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With an unexpected move, the Austrian Minister of Research and Science, Johannes Hahn, announced last Friday that he intends to put an end to the 50-year-long participation of Austria to CERN.

Such a move is hard to understand, in light of the great prospects of physics that the start-up of LHC will bring at the end of this year. Losing membership to CERN would mean a downgrade of Austrian scientists in all the projects they are involved, and it would be detrimental to the experiments, to the lab, and to particle physics in general, but most of all it would be a catastrophe for Austrian research.

Frederick II (1194 –1250), Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily, so I have read, preferred equation-solving contests to watching knights impaling each other in jousting. Certainly, the great mathematician we know today as Fibonacci spent some time at his court.

As a result of this development, Italy became a leading centre of the mathematical arts, and by the 1530s the solving of cubic equations was all the rage in Venice, with great prize money.