SCHIPHOL-RIJK, The Netherlands, August 4 /PRNewswire/ -- SecondFloor, a rapidly expanding IT services company based in The Netherlands will take a core role in an ambitious project to develop a risk management platform for Allianz Group. The custom built solution provides Allianz with auditable, automated, centralized and SOX compliant risk calculations on the basis of a new replication portfolio approach. SecondFloor will be responsible for the analysis, information architecture, server based implementation, testing, deployment and support, providing Allianz with a robust, reliable and auditable solution.

MANHASSET, New York, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry Veterans Rank Financial Engineering Programs Based on Wall Street Recruitability

TechWeb's Advanced Trading, the premiere source for objective industry-specific content for trading executives, today announced the Top Ten schools for quantitative analysts. Working closely with Wall Street veterans, Advanced Trading chose the top schools in terms of financial services recruitability. Published in the August issue, the article entitled, "The Top 10 Quant Schools, According to the Street" was written by executive editor, Cristina McEachern. The feature story can be found online at: http://www.advancedtrading.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209102204.

BERLIN, August 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments DLP Products will be showcasing the latest in DLP projector technology at IFA this year in Berlin. We would like to invite you to attend the Texas Instruments stand in Hall 26, Booth 102, where exciting innovations in products and technology await you.

Texas Instruments DLP Products will offer exclusive interviews with DLP experts in the field of home theatre projectors, pico projection, HDTV and DLP Cinema, as well as providing journalists with the opportunity to discuss the following topics with us:

- The industry's first DLP home theatre lamp-free projector

- Leading 3D projectors innovated from DLP's foundation in digital Cinema

- Stand-alone pico projector for mobile applications

REDWOOD CITY, California, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Pediatrics publishes data on Re-Mission(TM) video game showing young cancer patients who played the game took their medications more consistently

Video games are among the most popular entertainment media in the world. Now, groundbreaking research shows that a specially designed video game can promote positive behaviors in young cancer patients that enhance the effectiveness of medical treatment. This research, sponsored by the nonprofit organization HopeLab and published today in the medical journal Pediatrics, provides scientific evidence for a growing field of product development that taps into the positive potential of video games and other popular technology to improve human health.

The architecture of haematopoiesis – which is the process by which all blood cells originate – is essentially the same throughout the mammal world, report scientists in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. This is an unexpected result considering the thousands of mammals’ species with a myriad of habitats and lifestyles, as so well demonstrated when comparing the 30 mm flying bumblebee bat and the 30 metre-long aquatic blue whale both mammals. But the work now published shows that the variations in the blood system - necessary to adapt to the evolutionary changes found within the mammals’ world -can be explained quantitatively (for example by producing more cells or having the cells dividing faster), and are directly correlated to the animals’ body mass and do not require any fundamental alteration in the haematopoietic process.

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- The Company will be Co-located at the State of Oregon Booth

XsunX, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: XSNX), a solar technology Company engaged in the build-out of its multi-megawatt thin film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar manufacturing facilities, announced today that they will be co-locating with the State of Oregon at booth D 29 located in Hall 3 at the 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference & Exhibition held September 1-4 in Valencia Spain.

This year's international industrial exhibition in Valencia will be the biggest ever held in the area of solar power generation and is the World's largest specialist conference in the Photovoltaic Solar Energy Sector attracting more than 12,000 specialist visitors.

LONDON, August 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Major Future Proof Network Investment in the Regions

- Improved 3G Voice and Data Coverage

Orange today announced it will be transforming its 3G network across Scotland, Northern Ireland and North-East England. The improved 3G network infrastructure will bring faster and even more reliable voice and data services to the different locations.

The enhanced network in Scotland, Northern Ireland and North-East England will enable Orange customers, living, working or travelling across these areas to experience faster 3G data service. Further enhancements include:

- More reliable combined voice and data service

- 99% call set-up success rate

LETCHWORTH, England, August 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Navevo, the UK's leading specialist GPS software developer has been awarded the 2008 UK Telematics Product Innovation Award by global growth consulting company, Frost & Sullivan. The award given in recognition of a company's capability to identify industry challenges and introduce a unique product offering was awarded to Navevo for its new ProNav (Professional Navigation) solution which identified a new segment in navigation for heavy goods vehicle and addressed it with some unique features, such as information about loading bays and red routes in London.

Metabolic changes responsible for the evolution of our unique cognitive abilities indicate that the brain may have been pushed to the limit of its capabilities, according to research published today in Genome Biology.

This adds weight to the theory that schizophrenia is a costly by-product of human brain evolution.

Philipp Khaitovich, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led a collaboration of researchers from Cambridge, Leipzig and Shanghai who investigated brains from healthy and schizophrenic humans and compared them with chimpanzee and rhesus macaque brains.