ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leaders from five continents back UAE's offer to world's first international renewable energy agency

The United Arab Emirates today completed ratification of the statute of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), signalling to the 98 fellow member countries and the world at large their support and commitment to bringing renewable energy solutions to all nations, developed and developing. The UAE has officially submitted a bid to host IRENA's headquarters in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.

In the first article on this topic, I suggested that we can measure what people prefer and value, but we don’t know the “why” behind those preferences and values.

An evolutionary psychologist from the London School of Economics, Satoshi Kanazawa, wrote a paper on the origin of individual values and preferences that suggests values are tied to IQ, and you can theoretically predict the values of a nation based on its average intelligence.

Renate Matzke-Karasz from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich  has led an international team of scientists who are studying sperm specimens from the London Natural History Museum’s collections. Their research has revealed fossilized evidence for reproduction using giant sperm in a group of small aquatic crustaceans, called ostracods, dating back to 100 million years ago.

NEW YORK, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Enterprise Data Management Vendor to Co-host Wednesday's Networking Event

GoldenSource Corporation, a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions, will be attending the 2009 SIFMA Technology Management Conference to discuss the importance of market and reference data convergence and the role data management is playing in addressing key issues such as risk management, liquidity management and independent pricing and valuation.

GoldenSource will also be co-hosting at the exhibit hall cocktail reception on Wednesday, June 24 in the Hilton exhibit hall.

LONDON, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bone Cancer Research Trust is calling for new treatments for bone cancers affecting children and young people. This includes osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma, the two most common forms of primary bone cancer.

A study funded by the Bone Cancer Research Trust published in 2009 shows that the survival of children and young adults with bone cancer in the UK has not improved for 20 years.(1) More research is urgently needed to find new treatments. When new treatments are developed, they must be introduced without delay to avoid any more young people dying of this disease. On average a young person cured of this disease would have another 60 years of life.

ORLANDO, Florida, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Total of 130 6G Telepresence Rooms Ordered in First 30 Days of General Availability

InfoComm 2009 -- Teliris (www.teliris.com), the leading global provider of agile telepresence and collaboration, announced today that British American Tobacco will double their current Teliris Telepresence deployment as well as upgrade all existing systems to realize the benefits of the newly released agile 6G platform.

ATLANTA, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Free Service Opportunity For Companies Seeking Reliable Insight Into Air Travel-Related Carbon Emissions

TRX, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRXI), a global leader in travel technology and data services, today announced the extension of its web services offering to include free access to airline carbon emissions measurement calculations as part of the new TRX Carbon Emissions Developer Toolkit.

Powered by TRX's open web services platform, the Carbon Emissions Developer Toolkit provides third-party solution developers with direct access to the robust set of calculations required to accurately assess the carbon footprint of air travel by corporations and individuals.

AMSTERDAM, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- In the news release, Elsevier Honored as The Most Influential Publisher of the Last 100 Years in BioMedicine and the Life Sciences by the Special Libraries Association issued on 17 Jun 2009 12:21 GMT, by Elsevier over PR Newswire, the original was transmitted without the corresponding journal and society links.

Complete, corrected release follows:

Elsevier Honored as The Most Influential Publisher of the Last 100 Years in BioMedicine and the Life Sciences by the Special Libraries Association

- SLA Centennial Observance Chooses 20 Elsevier Journals Among 100 Most Influential Journals in Past Century

LONDON, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --

The 2009 Frost Sullivan European Automotive Safety Systems Product Innovation of the Year Award is presented to NAVTEQ Europe B.V. (NAVTEQ) for its Map and Positioning Engine (MPE) MPE Reference Solution. This innovation creates a simple, efficient and highly cost-effective architecture, along with all the building blocks necessary for digital map-based informational and map-enabled Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and fuel economy into cars.

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