READING, England, June 17 /PRNewswire/ --
- Nationwide Mobile Location-Based Directory Search Solution is Awarded Best Consumer Innovation Award
LONDON, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- From today, four to seven year olds across the UK will be helped in developing positive and healthy first attitudes towards money and savings with the launch of http://www.funtosave.org, the first website to take a holistic approach to teaching young children about the concept of saving both at school and at home.
Developed by the UK's Mutual Insurers and educational specialists, D2, the free website is the only resource to contain educational games for children aged four to seven, accompanying activities for parents to enjoy with their children in everyday life, and co-ordinated lesson plans for teachers developed in line with the national curriculum.
GREAT DUNMOW, England, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- A door entry system is the first step towards securing a building from unauthorised access, whether it is a residential or commercial property. As the first point of contact a visitor will have when entering a premises, it is important to create the right impression.
Bitron Video's range of entry panels combined with the new T-Line audio and video house phones make the right impression and are very reasonably priced.
The kits for audio and video systems are complete with everything required for a simple and successful installation. The tried and tested 5-wire technology for video systems saves on installation time and costs as there is no need for costly co-axial cable.
When a steep decline in the wool trade prompted an 18th century credit crunch, folks in Yorkshire took up a new (and dangerous) business venture - counterfeiting.
In the 18th century, coining was a treasonable offense and therefore punishable by death but in the 1760s and 1770s, a decline in the textile trade motivated hundreds of Yorkshire people from rural communities to risk the gallows by counterfeiting British and Spanish coins.
Living in an area with more fast food outlets and convenience stores than supermarkets and grocers has been associated with obesity in a Canadian study published by BMC Public Health.
Correlation/causation misfire? Sure, unless you want to believe that the government should put up a fresh food stand within a half mile of your house to keep you from becoming obese.
The clothing industry discovered decades ago that a mix of natural and synthetic fibers, like taking cotton and adding polyester, can make clothing that's soft, breathable and wrinkle free.
Now researchers at the University of Washington are using the same principle for biomedical applications. Mixing chitosan, found in the shells of crabs and shrimp, with an industrial polyester creates a promising new material for the tiny tubes that support repair of a severed nerve, and could serve other medical uses. The hybrid fiber combines the biologically favorable qualities of the natural material with the mechanical strength of the synthetic polymer.
If we're lucky, fossils can at least tell us whether an extinct species was carnivore or vegetarian but the skull characteristics of a new species of parrot-beaked dinosaur and its associated gizzard stones indicate that the animal fed on nuts and/or seeds;the first solid evidence of nut-eating in any dinosaur.
Paleontologists discovered the new dinosaur, which they've named Psittacosaurus gobiensis, in the Gobi Desert of Inner Mongolia in 2001, and spent years preparing and studying the specimen. The dinosaur is approximately 110 million years old, dating to the mid-Cretaceous Period.
Stress and strain research got a boost thanks to research from NIST, where scientists have recently found evidence of an important similarity between the behavior of polycrystalline materials, like metals and ceramics, and glasses.
Most metals and ceramics used in manufacturing are polycrystals. The steel in a bridge girder is formed from innumerable tiny metal crystals that grew together in a patchwork as the molten steel cooled and solidified. Each crystal, or “grain,” is highly ordered on the inside, but in the thin boundaries it shares with the grains around it, the molecules are quite disorderly.
One odd characteristic of H1N1 influenza A (swine flu) in 2009 is that it seems to hit children much harder than the elderly, an about-face from ordinary flu. So targeting children may be an effective use of limited supplies of flu vaccine, according to research at the University of Warwick funded by the Wellcome Trust and the EU. The study suggests that, used to support other control measures, this could help control the spread of pandemics such as the current swine flu.
Fluctuating temperatures in Africa have always made reliable agriculture production difficult and global warming could make it even worse. If local varieties of maize and other food staples are unsuitable, the food security of many Africans will depend on farmers in one country gaining access to climatically suitable varieties now being cultivated in other African nations, and beyond, according to a study published in Global Environmental Change.
