SAN DIEGO, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

DHS Begins Test of Biometric Exit Procedures at Two U.S. Airports, the next step toward deploying biometric exit procedures for international travelers.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today began collecting biometrics - digital fingerprints - from non-U.S. citizens departing the United States as part of a pilot program at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Since 2004, biometrics have helped DHS prevent the use of fraudulent documents, protect visitors from identity theft and stop thousands of criminals and immigration violators from entering the United States.

Collecting biometrics allows us to determine faster and more accurately whether non-U.S.

"The men are getting really angry and the women are a little too gleeful,” wrote New York Times columnist Lisa Belkin commenting on the overwhelming response she got for an article on a new study that found that men, too, may have a “biological clock” ticking when it comes to having what biologists would call “high quality” offspring.

I’m fascinated by the contributions of researchers outside of the mainstream— the monk whose bean garden seeded modern genetics, the bicycle mechanic brothers who built a flying machine in their garage, and all of those amateur stargazers who found supernovae in their favorite corner of the sky.

Modern indie researchers, often called "grassroots scientists" or  “citizen scientists”, make especially good food for thought when grad school is at its most frustrating. It’s comforting to remember that at its heart, science is still open to anyone with a bit of curiousity and good observation skills.

FOXP2 may be the gene that makes us human - or so the hype goes. Hyped or not, FOXP2 is rightly a focus of intense research, since it is a gene that clearly has a major effect on human speech. Mutations in FOXP2 are responsible for some rare but strange language disorders, such as the inability to learn grammatical skills or make the proper mouth/facial movements to properly articulate words. 

"Somebody's got to stand up to experts," cried the creationist head of the Texas State Board of Education, Don McLeroy. McLeroy's lament is nothing new in American culture - we love to lionize the artless hero who conquers the world through clean living and common sense, and without resorting to elitist expertise. (Although some see the pendulum swinging the other way.)

WASHINGTON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Next step toward deploying biometric exit procedures for international travelers

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today began collecting biometrics - digital fingerprints and photographs - from non-U.S. citizens departing the United States as part of a pilot program at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Since 2004, biometrics have helped DHS prevent the use of fraudulent documents, protect visitors from identity theft and stop thousands of criminals and immigration violators from entering the United States.

NEWARK, New Jersey, May 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Migration Factory Process Borne Out of Proven Experience of Migrating Many of the World's Largest Corporations

Binary Tree announced today the application for a patent for its 'Migration Factory' process which enables large organizations to migrate up to 10,000 users a week from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange. This patent-pending process utilizes Binary Tree's award-winning CMT for Exchange software and a field-proven migration methodology to migrate over 10 terabytes of messaging data and up to 10,000 users a week from geographically dispersed locations.

LONDON, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Actix, the leader in Network Status performance engineering and optimization solutions, is announcing new support capabilities for HSPA+/Evolved within Actix Analyzer and Actix Spotlight solutions.

Actix is now able to deliver HSPA+/Evolved troubleshooting and optimization capabilities within all elements of its Analyzer, Spotlight, Radioplan and Actix One solutions.

Already established as the industry standard for both analysis and performance engineering, Actix software is constantly being extended to cover the newest technologies, and offers the broadest set of interfaces to third party data through a library that covers hundreds of different vendor formats.

The key issue in considering competition is the question of whether changes in resource availability or mates would alter the confrontation. If the answer is negative, then no competition can be said to have occurred. The mere existence of confrontation does not necessarily denote competition.



So in considering competition the definition will be focused specifically on the conditions whereby two individuals engage each other in some confrontation for a specific and separate resource. To that end, one of the individuals will end up acquiring that resource while the other is either eliminated or goes elsewhere.



However, in a general sense, it is useful to consider first how competition actually manifests itself.