BEIJING, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

The prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts is now accepting enrollment for its first-ever International Foundation Course, a highly anticipated pre-bachelor's degree program developed in conjunction with China's Ministry of Education.

CAFA is the leading institution for modern art education in China and is the only art academy of higher learning directly under the Ministry of Education. The China Education Center ( http://www.chinaeducenter.com/en/ ) is officially authorized by CAFA to handle foreign students' applications to its International Foundation Course.

NOIDA, India, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Research Collaboration to Provide AstraZeneca With New Preclinical Drug Candidates

Jubilant Organosys Ltd, headquartered in India, announced today that its Bangalore, India, based subsidiary,Jubilant Biosys Ltd, has signed a research collaboration agreement with, AstraZeneca, and focused on delivering novel drug candidates into the international pharmaceutical company's pre-clinical pipeline. Under the shared risk-reward collaboration, which will initially focus on the neuroscience area, Jubilant aims to deliver a steady stream of discovery programs to AstraZeneca.

GENEVA, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Innovative Powder Formulation of Metformin Designed to Facilitate Adherence by Increasing Patient Choice in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes, Now Available in France and the United Kingdom

Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced that Glucophage(R) Powder for Oral Solution in Sachets, (metformin hydrochloride in 500mg, 850mg and 1000mg strengths) indicated for the first-line treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus, is now licensed in France and the United Kingdom(1), the first European countries to launch this new formulation of Glucophage. Launches in other European countries are expected to take place in the coming months, once individual marketing authorizations are granted.

CLEVELAND Ohio, and WASHINGTON DC, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Simulation Technology Leader and the Leading Developer of Simulation-based Healthcare Training Platforms Form Cooperative Agreement

Simbionix USA Corporation and B-Line Medical, LLC, today announced a strategic agreement enabling the data integration of Simbionix Mentor(TM) simulation systems with B-Line Medical's SimCapture(R) product.

The collaboration will combine Simbionix' unique data collected during a simulation session with video streams into the SimCapture system for debriefing, assessing and centralizing multiple types of simulated encounters.

LONDON, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- VocaLink, the European payment specialist and central provider of services to the UK's Bacs, Faster Payments and LINK transactions, has announced today it has received an investment of GBP60 million in equity capital from its shareholders. This new funding will strengthen its resilient services for existing clients while supporting the company's continued growth in Europe.

BRUGG, Switzerland, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Plans for an Area Covering Over 10,000 m2 and a Modern Office Block

- Note:Picture will be distributed Europe-wide and can be downloaded under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100009189 -

Toddlers with autism appear more likely to have an enlarged amygdala, a brain area associated with numerous functions, including the processing of faces and emotion, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. In addition, this brain abnormality appears to be associated with the ability to share attention with others, a fundamental ability thought to predict later social and language function in children with autism.

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

Lewtan Technologies, Inc., provider of ABSNet, the industry's leading source for asset-backed securities surveillance data, analytics, software, and content for the global securitisation industry, today announced that Thomson Reuters will utilize its ABSNet cashflow library to expand their Valuation Risk Service. This will give Thomson Reuters clients additional coverage of structured finance instruments in Europe in order to help strengthen transparency and develop better evaluated prices in the marketplace in light of the current financial crisis.

It's certainly the case that 'dark matter', like 'Smurf' or 'government regulation', has in recent times become a de facto explanation for the unexplained.   We aren't big believers in magic so mysterious, undetected forces that explain everything probably actually explain nothing - and tossing out Newton in the process  brings on a higher order of scrutiny, since he has been declared irrelevant often before only to survive quite nicely.

Dark matter is currently unable to reconcile all the current discrepancies between measurements and predictions based on theoretical models and competing theories of gravitation have therefore been developed - their problem is that they conflict with Newton's theory of gravitation.

If you want to learn a little something about 'characteristic curvature', you're in the right place.   Hydrophilic surfactants love water, but lipophilic surfactants love oils and dislike water.

Okay, if you were expecting an article about Jessica Alba, you can stop reading.

But if chemistry is your thing, a new research protocol developed by Dr. Acosta and colleagues from the University of Toronto's Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry builds on more than 30 years of phase behavior studies of microemulsions, the clear, stable liquid mixtures of oil, water and surfactant, and the concept of hydrophilic-lipophilic difference.