PARIS, April 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Joins Other Confirmed Ministers at the 2009 International Transport Forum

We are proud and very pleased that many Ministers of our member countries have confirmed their presence at this year's International Transport Forum, amongst others the U.K., France, Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Russia. And we are especially pleased that the new U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, will pay his first visit to Europe on the occasion of the 2009 Forum, announced Jack Short, Secretary General of the International Transport Forum (ITF) in Paris on Wednesday. The 2009 Forum on Transport for a Global Economy: Challenges Opportunities in the Downturn will take place in Leipzig from 26 to 29 May.

RESTON, Virginia, April 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Certification for Ekahau Adds New RTLS Tags and Solutions to Support Cisco Unified Wireless Networks

Ekahau Inc., a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), today announced that its Wi-Fi RTLS tags have been certified under the Cisco Compatible Extensions program for Wi-Fi tags. This certification enables organizations to add advanced location and tracking functionality to their Cisco Unified Wireless Network for asset, inventory and people tracking applications with Ekahau's award-winning Wi-Fi RTLS software and smart Wi-Fi tags.

CHAM, Switzerland, April 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Partners in Northern and Eastern Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East and Asia

RapidShare has expanded its reseller network during recent months: internet users are now able to purchase RapidShare premium accounts from more than 70 resellers in over 50 countries worldwide and book additional traffic quotas using TrafficShare. A total of 28 different providers, listed under http://www.rapidshare.com/resellers.html are available to take payments. Authorised partners can be identified by RapidShare users by the original reseller logo.

Over recent months, new partners have been authorised in Northern and Eastern Europe - Bosnia Herzegovina, Ukraine, Norway and Macedonia; in the

LONDON, April 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Globeleq Generation Limited - the power generation company solely focused on the emerging markets of Africa, Asia and the Americas - has further strengthened its executive management team with the appointment of Mikael Karlsson as Chief Executive Officer.

Mikael brings extensive senior management experience in global development, acquisition, financing and equity investments of energy and infrastructure assets with 19 years in the industry.

LONDON, April 15 /PRNewswire/ --

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Suzy Brownlee has created a new series of children's books for ages 9-12, featuring her two daughters who sing 'Run', a song composed especially for the series.

Hoping to take a small step in addressing the recent findings into the declining state of UK children's literacy, Brownlee's The Littlest Detective in London, released today, entices readers with a YouTube video, dedicated website and photographic images of the lead characters, who are played by daughters Imogen, aged 9, and Britta, aged 16.

SAN RAMON, California, April 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company to Open London Office to Meet Increased Demand for Global Job Distribution and Internet Media Representation

In its second announcement in a month, eQuest, the global leader in job posting and Internet recruitment management services, confirmed today that it will open its second European office in London, England. Last month eQuest announced the opening of an additional technology office in Minsk, Belarus to strengthen its support and research and development in the European market.

New research provides insight into how the brain can execute different actions in response to the same stimulus. The study, published by Cell Press in the April 16 issue of the journal Neuron, suggests that information from single brain cells cannot be interpreted differently within a short time period, a finding that is important for understanding both normal cognition and psychiatric disorders.

If we're going to get a $300 genome sequence any time in the near future, around the cost it will take to have it as part of routine medical care, the process has to get faster.

The obstacles to reaching that goal have been primarily technological: Scientists have struggled to figure out how to accurately read the 3 billion base pairs - the amount of DNA found in humans and other mammals - using current time-consuming and inefficient methods.

Genetic differences can influence one's risk of developing proteinuria, a condition that increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The results may be important for determining patients' health risks and for devising new medical treatments.

Approximately 12% of people in the United States have proteinuria (abnormal levels of protein lost in the urine), and African Americans and American Indians have higher risks of developing the condition than other groups. Researchers suspect that genetic variation likely accounts for part of their increased risks. 

The club moss Lycopodium serratum is a creeping, flowerless plant purportedly used to treat a wide variety of ailments. It contains a brew of alkaloids that have attracted scientific and medical interest because of the use of the moss in homeopathy. However, the plant makes many of these compounds in extremely low amounts, hindering efforts to test their therapeutic value.

That is no longer a problem for what is arguably the most complex of these alkaloids, a compound called Serratezomine A: an alkaloid that could have anti-cancer properties and may combat memory loss. A team of synthetic chemists at Vanderbilt University reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society that they have created an efficient way to make this molecule from scratch.