LUCCA, Italy and LONDON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Independent Study Examines Software's Total Economic Impact(TM)

Tagetik, a global provider of Performance Management and Financial Governance solutions, today announced that an independent case study conducted by Forrester Consulting, commissioned by Tagetik, shows that an investment in Tagetik software can quickly pay for itself. The study calculated that a Tagetik customer achieved a risk-adjusted ROI of 299% over five years with a payback period of 24 months. Tagetik commissioned the study to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying its Performance Management (PM) and Financial Governance (FG) software.

BOSTON, NEW YORK and LONDON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Early Adopter Firms Drive Post-Trade Industry Standardization

Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced the availability of Omgeo Central Trade Manager(SN) (Omgeo CTM) for broker/dealers. The firm has seen significant momentum in take-up of the offering, with twelve early adopter brokers now signed on to the central matching platform around the globe in regions including US, UK, Brazil, Canada, Spain, France and Korea. The early adopters, which include firms such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Newedge Europe, are providing Omgeo with the opportunity to help drive future development of Omgeo CTM.

LONDON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- We7 Champions Music Streaming in the Mainstream to Beat UK's GBP120bn Piracy Problem

Two in three (64%) Brits are illegally listening to and sharing music online because they do not know how to do so legally, according to research by British online jukebox We7.

Educating and raising awareness of what is legal and what is not online, as well as providing a music choice that is free to consumers is the best way to beat piracy, according to We7 (http://www.we7.com). The Government's Digital Britain report launched today highlights the importance of developing new business models for digital music, but is expected to stop short of recommending how to truly protect the value of music in the digital world.

PARIS, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

PARIS AIR SHOW -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today that two launch abort system (LAS) motors for NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle are now in place at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico for integration and preparation for the first flight test, known as Pad Abort 1.

Lockheed Martin and NASA have planned a series of ground and flight tests for the launch abort system over the next few years leading up to Orion's first crewed flight to the International Space Station scheduled for 2015.

LONDON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

Beginning July 1, 2009, eQuest will release into production a German-language version of its popular job posting user interface application. eQuest provides job delivery services to over half of the Fortune 100 including multi-national companies doing business in Germany.

The addition of a German-language version is a logical next-step extension for our business, said John Malone, President and Chief Executive Officer of eQuest. Simply put, we're positioning the company to capitalize on a dynamic and growing market in the human resource service sector. We see Germany as a key component to this growth.

Earlier this month eQuest introduced a French-language version into its posting platform.

Same-sex behavior has been extensively documented in the non-human animal kingdom, concludes a new review of existing research.

Yep, homosexual behavior is common across species, from worms to frogs to birds - but there's a catch.   Same-sex 'behaviors' are not the same across species and researchers may be calling qualitatively different phenomena by the same name.

In revisiting a chemical reaction that's been in the literature for several decades and adding a new wrinkle of their own, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have discovered a mild and relatively inexpensive procedure for removing oxygen from biomass. This procedure, if it can be effectively industrialized, could allow many of today's petrochemical products, including plastics, to instead be made from biomass. 

"We've found and optimized a selective, one-pot deoxygenation technique based on a formic acid treatment," said Robert Bergman, a co-principal investigator on this project who holds a joint appointment with Berkeley Lab's Chemical Sciences Division and the UC Berkeley Chemistry Department. 

Fire drills are conducted to know what it will be like in an actual fire incident. The main objective of fire drills are to asses how fast can people evacuate the buildings safely, if ever they catch fire.

I think the swine flu virus is just like that. It is not as deadly as the Ebola Zaire, which are known cause 90% fatalities, nor as resilient as HIV, but the fact that it is a flu virus makes it as valuable as a fire drill - a life saving drill . We now know how fast a flu or at least a flu-like virus can be transmitted. In Canada earlier this month, 265 cases have been reported in just 72 hours. Cases have been confirmed for 75 countries world wide. And here in the Philippines, cases rose to 193.

Neurological diseases including Parkinson's, Tourette's, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Alzheimer's, and schizophrenia are all associated with alterations in dopamine-driven function involving the dopamine transporter (DAT). Research published today BMC Neuroscience suggests that a number of estrogens acting through their receptors affect the DAT, which may explain trends in timing of women's susceptibility to these diseases.

University of Louisville neurologist Robert P. Friedland, M.D., questions the safety of eating farmed fish in the June issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.  A legitimate worry about the nation's food supply or a case of an anti-farmed fish agenda? 

Friedland and co-authors suggest, despite any evidence or anything outside their own speculation, that farmed fish byproducts rendered from cows, like bone meal, could transmit Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, commonly known as mad cow disease, to humans.   Despite the lack of evidence, they are urging government regulators to ban feeding cow meat or bone meal to fish until the safety of this common practice can be confirmed.   How can you further prove something is safe that has been in use for decades without issue?