LONDON, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Version of Digital Signage, PC Screensaver and Alert Player Pimped With YouTube, Flash Rich Media, Video, Animation and Ticker Tape Functionality

Netpresenter (http://www.netpresenter.com) launches Netpresenter Player 5.0, the next generation in digital signage player software. Key new feature is support for Adobe Flash content and YouTube videos, enabling delivery and playback of these content types on PC desktops, large (digital signage) screens and even mobile devices.

INGELHEIM, Germany, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- For Healthcare Media Outside the U.S.A.

- Studies Demonstrate Positive and Rapid Impact of Pramipexole on the Core Symptoms of Restless Legs Syndrome and Sleep Disturbance

DALLAS, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Information Technology Offers Long-Lasting Benefits

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS) today announced that it has successfully completed Phase I of the Government of Malta's Integrated Health Information System (IHIS), a program to attain the highest quality patient care for the citizens of Malta.

LONDON, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- BuzzBack Market Research surveys US and UK consumers

Concern about the environment and global warming is not only influencing how consumers live their lives, but also impacting their buying habits.

In a consumer survey taken in advance of Earth Day (April 22) by BuzzBack Market Research, 81 percent of those asked in the United Kingdom said they used energy efficient light bulbs and about half said they purchased recycled products. But much work still needs to be done to change attitudes among consumers as less than 10 percent say they buy products only from "green" companies.

BIRMINGHAM, England, April 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- ATTN: Midlands Region Editors

Are you currently hiding your creative flair under an easel? Well, now is your chance to let it be seen.

Kodak Lens Vision Centres across the Midlands are teaming up with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) to discover budding artists in the region.

Candidates can enter in three age groups (Under tens; 11 - 17 years; and 18 years and over) and must create a picture around the theme of 'Your World, Through Your Eyes.' Prizes include private expert tuition from the RBSA, professional artist tools and equipment and fantastic days out to UK sights and attractions.

LIMASSOL, Cyprus, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Monteray Enterprises Ltd., a company indirectly, wholly-owned by Mr John Fredriksen, has on 16 April 2008 notified TUI AG and the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, BaFin) that it has acquired 29.515 million shares in TUI AG, representing approximately 11.747% of the voting rights in TUI AG.

Following this acquisition, Mr Fredriksen, through Monteray Enterprises Ltd., is the largest shareholder in TUI AG.

Monteray Enterprises Ltd. has also informed TUI AG that it will uphold the request for an addendum to the agenda of the general meeting concerning changes to the supervisory board, filed by Geveran Trading Co. Ltd. and published by TUI AG on 4 April 2008.

Female mice can steer clear of inbred males on the basis of their scent alone, according to evidence in Current Biology.

The researchers found that female mice chose to associate with males producing a greater diversity of major urinary proteins (MUPs), even when all else was held equal. An earlier study by the same team had shown that wild mice also rely on MUPs to recognize and avoid mating with their close relatives.

Inbreeding is often avoided in animals because it can lead faulty, otherwise hidden (or recessive) traits to surface in their offspring. Nevertheless, Thom said, inbreeding does sometimes occur.

The National Health Service (NHS), the British government-run hospital system, has begun adopting a reminder service they say helps reduce missed patient appointments and resulting losses in hospital revenue. Called the Managed Appointment Reminder Service (MARS), the system aims to help NHS Trusts slash an estimated £614 million out of their operating costs each year due to patient no-shows.

The MARS service was developed by Island Communications in association with the NHS and mobile messaging partner Mediaburst, and has been successfully piloted at Hull and East Yorkshire Woman and Children's Hospital(1).

The hospital’s Paediatric Outpatients Unit was the first to test the system.

A group of British investigators headed by H. Walach has studied the psychological mechanisms of 'distant healing', a form of spiritual healing, in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.

409 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) were randomized from 14 private practices for environmental medicine in Germany and Austria in a two by two factorial design to immediate versus deferred (waiting for 6 months) distant healing.

Half the patients were blinded and half knew their treatment allocation. Patients were treated for 6 months and allocated to groups of 3 healers from a pool of 462 healers in 21 European countries with different healing traditions.

In 1750, Denis Diderot convinced his publisher to support a vast enterprise, the publication of the Encyclopédie gathering all knowledge into one location.

Dozens of writers worked on thousands of articles for more than 15 years to produce the first summary of all human knowledge and, despite the labour and pains of its birth, its entire contents would barely fill one volume of a contemporary encyclopaedia.

Linking communities and information into a virtual digital library is the 21st century version of the Dictionaire Raisonneé. Better, they can be organised around specific topics, creating vast repositories and networks of experts around a single problem. Best of all, it can be done on demand.