LONDON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite the union strongly welcomes the Health & Safety Executive's (HSE) announcement that it has recruited 40 more inspectors but the UK's largest union believes the HSE needs more.

This move will bring the overall number of HSE inspectors to 720. Of the 40 inspectors recruited ten are construction specialists bringing the total of HSE construction inspectors dedicated to the industry to 134, as construction is one of the most dangerous industries where work-related ill health affects a significant number of workers.

Bob Blackman, Unite national officer, said:

"Construction is one of the most dangerous working environments in the land, so it is right that the HSE is placing great emphasis on increased inspection resources."

HILDEN, Germany, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Research Supports Replacement of Pap With HPV Test as Front-line Screen

Long-term data from a study published in the International Journal of Cancer show that women screened only with a human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA test are half as likely to develop moderate to severe cervical disease over the next six years as those who get only conventional cytology (the Pap "smear"). The research followed nearly 3,000 women age 35 years and older, and assessed their HPV status using QIAGEN's digene(R) HPV Test - the only such test that is both CE-marked in Europe and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

LONDON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Internet developments that brought us sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia are now set to revolutionise healthcare, according to a new research report from online news service and publisher, E-Health Insider.

Titled 'Web 2.0 in the Health Sector: Industry Review with a UK perspective' the report concludes that new applications based on social health networks and content generated by health service users themselves - such as reviews of doctors and hospitals - will rapidly evolve to challenge existing healthcare systems and create new ways of delivering our healthcare.

CAMBRIDGE, England, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Toshiba Adopts Cortex-A9 MPCore Multicore Processor, Cortex-R4F Processor and Other ARM Technology

ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMH)] , today announced a major technology licensing agreement with Toshiba Corporation encompassing the ARM(R) Cortex(TM) -A9 processor, the Cortex-R4F processor, NEON(TM) SIMD technology, PrimeCell(R) peripherals and CoreSight(TM) on-chip trace and debugging technology. This comprehensive adoption of ARM technology by Toshiba, and its Cortex-M3 processor license last year (see http://www.arm.com/news/18089.html ), will enable the company to provide an ARM Powered(R) system-on-chip portfolio across the full performance spectrum.

HAIFA, Israel, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) (the "Company"), Israel's largest oil refiner, has announced today that, following its announcement of April 6, 2008 with respect to the joint examination with Israel Petrochemical Enterprises Ltd. (hereinafter: "IPE"), for the acquisition of the 50% balance of Carmel Olefins Ltd. (hereinafter: "CAOL"), the Company's Board of Directors has granted its management approval to progress in the negotiations to reach an agreement for the acquisition of IPE's 50% shareholding in CAOL (in addition to the 50% CAOL shares already held today by the Company) (hereinafter: the "Transaction") under the following principles:

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Savi's RFID-Based Solution Supports Delivery of Military Supplies into Afghanistan for NATO Peace Efforts

To support NATO peace keeping in Afghanistan and elsewhere, the Polish Ministry of Defence (PMD) is deploying a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)-based solution provided by Savi, a Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) company, to automate tracking and management of military supplies. This marks the second largest NATO-related installation of Savi's RFID networked solution and the eighth separate defense force deployment of it worldwide.

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LONDON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Slovakia is a key transit route for power flows between the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Austria and cracked open its electricity market to competition in July 2007.

During the same year, the country ceased being a net exporter of power due to the decommissioning of an outdated nuclear reactor and is now depending on imports from neighbouring countries.

While investors and traders are taking an interest in an increasingly liquid Slovak wholesale market, administrative restrictions - such as the introduction of an electricity export fee - continue to make it a challenging hub to enter.

HOUSTON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (Amex: END) (LSE: ENDV) today announced that the 6407/8-4S exploration well has discovered natural gas in the Jurassic Garn formation at the Galtvort prospect on production license 348 in the Norwegian North Sea. Comprehensive data collection and sampling were conducted. The Galtvort 6407/8-4S well was drilled to a vertical depth of 2,632 meters subsea (8,635 feet) in a water depth of 266 meters (873 feet).

The 6407/8-4A appraisal sidetrack well will be drilled immediately after the discovery well is finished and will target the Jurassic Garn and Ile formations in an up dip location approximately half a kilometer (2,000 feet) to the northeast of the bottom hole location of the discovery well.

Plant-eating animals in highly seasonal environments, such as the Arctic, are struggling to locate nutritious food as a result of climate change, according to research in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The research, which focused on caribou, suggests that not only are these animals arriving at their breeding grounds too late in the season to enjoy the peak availability of food - the focus of previous research by Post - but they also are suffering from a reduced ability to locate the few high-quality plants that remain before these plants, too, become unavailable.

The team focused their research on caribou in West Greenland as an example of an herbivore species in a seasonal environment. Closely related to wild reindeer, caribou are dependent on plants for all their energy and nutrients. In the spring, they switch from eating lichens buried beneath the snow to munching the new growth of willows, sedges, and flowering tundra herbs. As the birth season approaches, they are cued by increasing daylight to migrate into areas where this newly-emergent food is plentiful.

SYDNEY, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Spb Online Shell is a Convergence of Online and Media Tools, Targeted to Helping Mobile Network Operators Expand Their Online Services Portfolios and Meet High-End Customization Needs.

SYDNEY, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Today at CeBIT Australia, Spb Software House, a leading mobile applications vendor, showcased Spb Online Shell - a practical on-device access point to online multimedia content and services. Spb Online Shell will help mobile network operators deliver improved content experiences to subscribers.