Most people know that restaurants are inspected regularly, but many assume that regularity means 5-12 times per year rather than the once that is actually the case. That's one finding in an article published in the June 2008 American Journal of Preventive Medicine. It found that the public is generally unaware of the frequency of restaurant inspections and the consequences of poor inspection results.

Foodborne diseases cause an estimated 76 million illnesses in the U.S. each year with about half associated with restaurant meals. More than 70 billion meals per year are purchased in restaurants in the U.S., accounting for 47% of total food expenditure. Therefore, preventing restaurant-associated foodborne disease is an important task of public health departments.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Hub Centralizes Qualcomm's Middle East and North Africa Operations in Supporting Regional Wireless Partners -

Qualcomm Incorporated, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, today affirmed its commitment to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) markets with the opening of a new branch office in Dubai. The office, located in the Dubai Internet City (DIC) Free Trade Zone, will serve as a hub for Qualcomm's regional business interests and will provide support for device manufacturers, network operators and other industry participants that are driving the area's fast growing mobile broadband market.

TRIPOLI, Libya, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Tamoil Seeking to Expand its Presence in Growing Markets

- Strategic Partners Will be Considered but Only Where Significant Commercial Synergies Prevail

The newly appointed CEO of The Oilinvest Group (Tamoil), Mr. Isam Zanati, today made the following statement.

"There has been a degree of speculation in the media over the last few weeks regarding the future of Oilinvest and the Tamoil brand. As the newly appointed CEO of Oilinvest, I wish to make clear that I consider Tamoil to be the crown jewel of Libya's overseas downstream investments.

Jean Piaget, founder of genetic epistemology and key researcher in child development psychology, showed that kids attribute “life status” to all things that move on their own, like bikes or clouds, and even 10-year-olds have difficulty understanding the nature of a 'living' thing.

Understanding the concept of a living thing is a late developmental achievement, he stated.

New research by Northwestern University psychologist Florencia Anggoro and colleagues Sandra Waxman and Doug Medin proposes that the way in which “alive” and other biological concepts are named within a given language also shapes their understanding and acquisition in children.

The researchers compared children ages 4 to 9 speaking English and Indonesian, a pair of languages with an intriguing difference - in English, but not Indonesian, the term 'animal' is polysemous, or has more than one meaning: one sense includes all animate objects (the animal kingdom) while the other excludes humans (‘don’t eat like an animal!’)

LONDON, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Liquidnet Europe Limited won Best Overall Execution Venue at the TradeTech European Awards 2008 this week in Paris, beating out six other finalists for the distinction. The annual Awards identify the best performance and contributions to trading in Europe and showcase "successful innovations" in market technology solutions. The judging panel, consisting of journalists, consultants, traders, and technology providers, awarded Liquidnet Europe in recognition of its ability to offer users "an excellent, reliable, rapid and cost efficient execution."

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MILPITAS, California, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry's Only ESD Solution that passes both HDMI(TM) 1.3a Compliance and 20kV ESD Tests

California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) today introduced the latest ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection device in the XtremeESD family utilizing the PicoGuard XS(TM) architecture, the CM1234. It features 8 channels of ESD protection that meet + -15kV contact discharge, and + -20kV air discharge per the IEC61000-4-2 standard, while meeting 100 Ohm differential impedance matching requirements of the HDMI(TM) 1.3a and DisplayPort(TM) digital video standards. It is ideal for digital TVs, LCD displays, notebook computers, set top boxes, and HD DVD recorders.

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DUBLIN, Ireland and GREENVILLE, North Carolina, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- University Study Confirms Positive Health Benefits Of Casual Gaming

East Carolina University reveals the results of a 6-month randomized, controlled study that confirms positive health benefits of so-called "casual" video games. The family-friendly puzzle / word games used in the study - Bejeweled 2, Peggle and Bookworm Adventures - are made by PopCap Games, whose customer surveys last year indicated similar casual gaming benefits. Additional study data, including detailed charts, can be found at http://www.ecu.edu/biofeedback.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Terumo Heart, Inc. announced a presentation at the recent ISHLT meeting in Boston. The presentation entitled "Long Term Circulatory Support with the DuraHeart(TM) Mag-Lev Centrifugal LVAS for Advanced Heart Failure Patients Eligible for Transplantation: European Experience" was delivered by Chisato Nojiri, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer for Terumo Heart, Inc.

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REHOVOT, Israel and JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Rosetta Genomics In-Licenses, on a Non-Exclusive Basis, Proprietary MicroRNAs for Research Applications From Rockefeller University

- Following This Agreement, Rosetta Genomics has Access to a Full Range of Potential MicroRNA Applications Based on These MicroRNAs

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- New DesignWare PHY IP Provides Designers with Complete, Single Vendor IP Solution for the PCI Express 2.0 Interface