LONDON, July 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Frost Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on Global Mobile Video Surveillance
Market on Thursday, 16 July 2009, at 15.00 BST

The mobile video surveillance market is at the cusp of transformation from
traditional analogue to advanced IP digital and wireless systems. The need to
control vandalism, reduce false claims and fleet management applications in the
mobile market is making market participants scurry to tap those promising
opportunities.

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LONDON, July 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Herve Le Jouan Appointed MMA Chair for the European Region

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today
announced that the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has elected Herve Le
Jouan, managing director of the comScore Census Solutions Group, to its Global
Board of Directors. The Global Board will work together with the wider
membership of the MMA to manage and steer the Mobile Marketing Association,
continuing to advance its International leadership on the key issues facing the
industry. Mr. Le Jouan, who has more than four years of experience in the mobile
arena and over ten years experience in the digital measurement industry, will
also sit as Chair on the board's European committee.

LONDON, July 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Charity Urges Teachers and Families to Plan a Safe Escape

After six people were fatally killed in a tower block this weekend, The Fire
Fighters Charity and the Communities and Local Government Fire Kills Campaign
urges teachers to make Planning A Safe Escape part of their Key Stage 1 learning
programme.

Latest statistics have shown that 29 children under the age of 11 are killed in
fires in the UK every year, and over 1,100 are seriously injured, providing the
two organisations with conclusive grounds to launch the campaign.

Nothing makes biologists happier than psychologists declaring things a product of evolution.   Now it turns out even social constructs like 'taking turns' have gotten some benefit from evolutions' 'invisible hand'.

How so?   It spans across species so it must be evolution, say University of Leicester psychologists professor Andrew Colman and Dr Lindsay Browning, who carried out the simulations due to appear in the September issue of Evolutionary Ecology Research which they say helps explain the evolution of cooperative turn-taking.

If you've read your history and wondered about when the next Ice Age is coming, you can thank global warming it hasn't happened.    But it could be worse.   Earth's 4.5 billion years have seen several instances where temperatures changed dramatically, like in life ending ways, along with asteroids bombarding the planet and any number of species going extinct without a single activist to hunger strike for them.

But one of the biggest moments in Earth's lifetime is a positive one - the Cambrian explosion roughly 540 million years ago when complex, multi-cellular life burst out all over the planet.   Scientists can pinpoint this pivotal period as leading to life as we know it today but no one is sure what caused the Cambrian explosion of life.

The news that Newcastle University researchers have used embryonic stem cells to create human sperm under laboratory conditions has led to a lot of questions; like, who will television commercials make fun of if all men are gone?

In the technique developed at Newcastle, stem cells with XY chromosomes (male) were developed into germline stem cells which were then prompted to complete meiosis - cell division with halving of the chromosome set. These were shown to produce fully mature sperm called In Vitro Derived sperm (IVD sperm). 

LONDON, July 8 /PRNewswire/ --

Perenco Ecuador Limited (Perenco Ecuador) today called on the Government of
Ecuador to cease efforts to sell oil seized from Blocks 7 and 21 in defiance of
orders by international arbitration tribunals, and instead to seek a negotiated
solution to the dispute concerning the applicability of Law 42 to Blocks 7 and
21.

Rising levels of smokestack emissions from oceangoing ships will cause an estimated 87,000 deaths worldwide each year by 2012 — so more than heat wave deaths in French elderly people in 2003 while French young people protested much fewer deaths in the American invasion of Iraq but far less than the nearly 15,000,000 who die annually from cancer.

And it's almost one-third higher than the previously claimed 60,000 deaths but, like many things in pollution-related deaths, accurate numbers are hard to pin down.   You take some sample data and you extrapolate.

If nanotechnology has a dream future, it is self-assembling and self-organizing systems - something nature has been producing for millions of years.

A team of scientists has examined how thousands of bacterial membrane proteins are able to assemble into clusters that direct cell movement to select chemicals in their environment and they say their results provide valuable insight into how complex periodic patterns in biological systems can be generated and repaired.