AMSTERDAM, September 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- ScienceDirect Works With QUOSA to Reduce the Time Needed to Download and Organize Full-Text PDF Articles

ScienceDirect, Elsevier's online science, technology and medicine (STM) information platform, today announced that it has partnered with QUOSA to introduce the Document Download Manager, a new feature that enables researchers to download multiple full-text articles simultaneously. QUOSA, who specialize in building information management tools, are providers of the Download Manager technology.

A strange mix of oxygen found in a stony meteorite that exploded February 8, 1969 over Pueblito de Allende, Mexico has puzzled scientists ever since. Small flecks of minerals lodged in the stone and thought to date from the beginning of the solar system have a pattern of oxygen types, or isotopes, that differs from those found in all known planetary rocks, including those from Earth, its Moon and meteorites from Mars.

Now scientists from UC San Diego and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have eliminated one model proposed to explain the anomaly: the idea that light from the early Sun could have shifted the balance of oxygen isotopes in molecules that formed after it turned on. When they beamed light through carbon monoxide gas to form carbon dioxide, the balance of oxygen isotopes in the new molecules failed to shift in ways predicted by the model they report in the September 5 issue of Science.

BOCA RATON, Florida, September 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Recent Acquisition of Triangle Hospitality Solutions Strengthens Position in Region

Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading provider of innovative information technology and hospitality software solutions, announced its growing presence in the United Kingdom and EMEA hospitality markets with its recent acquisition of Triangle Hospitality Solutions in Warrington, Cheshire. Triangle has been the U.K.-based reseller for the full suite of InfoGenesis solutions offered by Agilysys.

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LONDON, September 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2 things guaranteed to be in the news at the moment are beating the credit crunch and reducing mans environmental impact on the planet.

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LONDON, September 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Who Better Than the World's Leading Consultants in Competitor Intelligence to Evaluate the CI Software Packages Commercially Available Today?

Fuld & Co, based in both London, England, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, have just released an updated version of their independent view of Competitive Intelligence Software. Although there are no clear winners, Cipher, Coemergence, Strategy Software and Wincite all come out well, with each of them scoring 'excellent' for planning and direction. These four packages also scored well on the report and inform functions. In the analysis and production functions scores were considerably lower all round with only Brimstone scoring a 'very good'.

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- Acision Continues to Strengthen Leadership Team to Capitalise on Global Success

READING, England, September 4 /PRNewswire/ --

Acision, the world's leading messaging company, announces the appointment of David King as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Starting immediately, King assumes responsibility for Acision's worldwide sales as well as the company's operations functions, to ensure continued growth.

Subtle genetic changes that confer an evolutionary advantage upon a species, such as the dexterity characteristic of the human hand, while difficult to detect and even harder to reproduce in a model system, have nevertheless generated keen interest amongst evolutionary biologists.

In findings published in Science, researchers have uncovered a specifically human 13-nucelotide change concealed in the vast three-billion-letter landscape of the human genome. Their experiments reveal this stretch of DNA to be a recently evolved regulator of gee expression that, when introduced into a mouse embryo system, influence the molecular machinery to yield human limb and thumb development patterns.

Astronomical instruments needed to answer crucial questions, such as the search for Earth-like planets or the way the Universe expands, have come a step closer with the first demonstration at the telescope of a new calibration system for precise spectrographs. The method uses a Nobel Prize-winning technology called a 'laser frequency comb', and is published in this week's issue of Science.

"It looks as if we are on the way to fulfil one of astronomers' dreams," says team member Theodor Hänsch, director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Germany. Hänsch, together with John Hall, was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for work including the frequency comb technique.

TORONTO, September 4 /PRNewswire/ --

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Binge drinking (5+ alcoholic beverages at one time) is associated with risky sexual behaviors. A new study is one of the few to examine this association by gender in an urban clinic for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Results show that binge drinking among women attending the clinic was linked to unsafe sexual practices – such as multiple partners and anal sex – and high rates of gonorrhea.

"The link between binge drinking and risky sexual behavior is complex," said Heidi E. Hutton, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as well as corresponding author for the study. "We wanted to examine one component of that relationship, whether binge drinking increased the risk of engaging in sexual behaviors and having STDs. We found gender differences in binge drinking among patients at an STD clinic, and also that binge drinking increased STD risk for women."