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

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Florida State University have confirmed evidence of domesticated sunflowers in Mexico — 4,000 years before what had been previously believed.

“People sometimes ask “What is the big deal about sunflower?” says David Lentz, professor of biological sciences and executive director of the Center for Field Studies in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Cincinnati (UC).

BIRMINGHAM, England and SAARBRÜCKEN, Germany, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- ABN Amro and Alenia / Finmeccanica Report on the Positive Impact of Process Management on Strategic Decision Making and Business Performance

Two customers of IDS Scheer, the leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), will speak at Gartner's BPM Summit in London, UK, from April 28 to 30, 2008. In an executive keynote and an end-user case study, ABN Amro and Alenia Aeronautica report on how strategic process management using ARIS Platform can leverage business performance. This year's theme at Gartner's Business Process Management Summit is 'Create and Sustain a Continuous Process Improvement Culture'.

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Stem cell company, Neuralstem, Inc., (Amex: CUR) announced today that the European Patent Office has granted Neuralstem a European patent EP0915968, covering the "Isolation, Propagation and Directed Differentiation of Stem Cells from Embryonic and Adult Central Nervous System of Mammals." The European patent has been validated in several European countries including France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

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It's legal, it's gaining popularity among teenagers and young adults and it's one of the most potent hallucinogens around.

Brain-imaging studies performed in animals at Brookhaven National Laboratory have provided researchers with clues about why this increasingly popular recreational drug that causes hallucinations and motor-function impairment in humans is abused. Using trace amounts of Salvia divinorum – also known as “salvia,” a Mexican mint plant that can be smoked in the form of dried leaves or serum – Brookhaven scientists found that the drug’s behavior in the brains of primates mimics the extremely fast and brief “high” observed in humans.

NEW YORK and Bangalore, INDIA, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- US$150,000 Prize to Stanford's Koller for Groundbreaking Work in Making Computers Intelligent

LONDON, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Lloyds TSB is the U.K.'s Most Popular Online Banking Brand

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study on the U.K. online banking sector, based on data from comScore Media Metrix and analysis from comScore Marketing Solutions. The report measured online banking activity, including the number of customers and the number of visits per month.

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HAIFA, Israel, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE: ORL.TA) (the "Company" or "ORL"), Israel's largest oil refiner, announced today that, following the press release dated January 24, 2008, with respect to a wholly owned foreign subsidiary of Carmel Olefins Ltd. (a private company in which ORL holds 50%, hereinafter: "COL") signing an agreement to acquire 49% of the outstanding share capital of Domo Polypropylene BV (hereinafter: "Domo"), COL has notified the Company that as of April 25, 2008 all the prerequisite conditions were met (approval of the relevant anti-trust authorities, as well as the receipt of an environmental report with respect to the condition of the ground on which the Domo plant is situated).

CHICAGO, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Radio industry leader in interactive revenue now serving other media customers

Emmis Interactive, the U.S. radio industry's leader in generating interactive revenues, today announced plans to begin marketing its services to radio broadcasters and other local media companies. To that end, Emmis Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: EMMS) has announced the formation of Emmis Interactive, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Emmis Operating Company.

LONDON, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite the union has today on Workers' Memorial Day called the approach by the semiconductor industry, in response to the Health and Safety Minister's support for the view that the industry should fund a national study into occupational cancer risk in the computer and semiconductor manufacturing industry, as curious and perplexing.

Unite, the largest union in the UK, is pressing for the UK computer components/ semiconductor industry to initiate industry wide research into cancer risks in the industry. The union, in particular, wants the industry to institute the research proposed by the HSE/DTI Feasibility study published in 2005. This follows new evidence from the United States.