MUNICH, Germany, January 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- ANDTEK Exhibits Highly Advantageous Unified Communications Solutions

- Legally Recognized Telephone Conversation Recording

ANDTEK GmbH presents intelligent and client-specific, unified communications applications and value-added services for business, industry, financial companies, legal firms and the health-care sector at the "Cisco Networkers 2008," which takes place in Barcelona from January 21 - 24.

The Munich-based unified communications specialist is exhibiting high-quality solutions at stand E61 in the "Unified Communications World" area, including, for example, the "AND Phone Recorder," which enables the recording of IP-based phone calls (Voice over IP, VoIP).

NEW YORK, January 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Investment firm W. P. Carey & Co. LLC (NYSE: WPC) announced today that CPA(R):14, its publicly held non-traded REIT affiliate, acquired an industrial/office research facility in Turku, Finland for approximately EUR 10 million.

The facility is being leased to Wallac Oy, a subsidiary of PerkinElmer, Inc., under a long-term lease. The acquisition is a follow-on transaction to an approximately EUR 28 million sale-leaseback of an adjacent research and production facility that CPA(R):14 completed with PerkinElmer in 2001. Both properties are located in Turku's "Bio Valley" - a section of the city named for its comprehensive infrastructure of science, business and biotech-related services.

CHAPEL EN LE FRITH, England, January 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Peakdale Molecular Ltd a leading provider in specialist chemistry services to the pharmaceutical industry has announced today that they have successfully completed a GBP1m round of equity funding which will enable Peakdale to continue the expansion of its facilities in the UK to support its continued rapid growth.

The investors in this round were led by Solon Ventures LP, advised by Solon Ventures Ltd, and were supported by a number of existing investors.

LONDON, January 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Innovative Scanner Offers Schools Versatile, Cost-Effective, High- Quality Data Capture and Imaging Technology

Today at BETT 2008, Pearson previewed the first desktop model scanner combining high-speed, full-color document imaging technology with the proven data capture capabilities of grayscale mark recognition. The new iNSIGHT 30(TM) is designed to support education scanning applications such as testing, attendance, grading, surveys, student portfolios, personnel records and back office file conversions. To develop this innovative scanner, Pearson applied its more than 50 years of unique engineering, forms design, applications development and customer support experience.

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, January 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Report Draws On Strategic Intelligence and Competitive Analysis Information From Newport Horizon Global(TM)

Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, has released the first issue of Movers and Shakers. This newest report in the Pharma Matters series analyzes the U.S. generics market from July to September 2007, profiles some of the companies breaking into the market, and highlights molecule patents currently being challenged.

NASA will debut a new book for blind readers at a media event and reception Jan. 15. The agency will unveil "Touch the Invisible Sky," which gives blind readers the ability to experience cosmic images from the agency's space-based observatories and other telescopes on the ground.

The event begins at 10 a.m. EST at the National Federation of the Blind, 1800 Johnson Street, Baltimore. Media will have the opportunity to ask the authors questions and view science experiments related to NASA's Great Observatories.

"Touch the Invisible Sky" is accessible to both blind and sighted readers. The book presents celestial objects as they appear through visible-light telescopes and in different spectral regions that are invisible to the naked eye.

It's political primary season and you know what that means, right? Right, it's time to rent movies and think about something else.

But you wouldn't be here if you could watch just any movies, you'd be a Huffington Post reader or Glenn Beck listener or whatever it is those people do that gets so much more attention than actual quality writing, like this site. You have more sense than that so you like movies with scientists; and especially scientists who could be hottie supermodels, mostly because they don't know anything about science.

In compiling a list like this, I am torn and maybe you will be also. Great science movies and attractive women don't always go together.

SETH: You wrote that New York Times piece, and from my take on it, you had a bunch of evidence, and then you got a book contract. Is it fair to say that you found out that what you wrote in the piece was mostly right?

WASHINGTON, January 9 /PRNewswire/ --

The Academic Alliance Foundation announces the publishing of Global HIV/AIDS Medicine, the first medical textbook aimed at a comprehensive approach to the management of HIV/AIDS as a global problem. The book reflects a changing landscape in HIV/AIDS prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, with particular emphasis on the realities of HIV/AIDS in resource limited settings.

"On behalf of each of the editors, we hope this textbook is of great value to clinicians, scientists, and epidemiologists throughout the world who are involved in the battle against HIV/AIDS," said Dr. Warner Greene, President of the Academic Alliance Foundation.

Stress, to put it bluntly, is bad for you. It can kill you, in fact. A study reveals that stress causes deterioration in everything from your gums to your heart and can make you more susceptible to everything from the common cold to cancer. Thanks to new research crossing the disciplines of psychology, medicine, neuroscience, and genetics, the mechanisms underlying the connection are rapidly becoming understood.

The first clues to the link between stress and health were provided in the 1930s by Hans Selye, the first scientist to apply the word “stress”— then simply an engineering term— to the strains experienced by living organisms in their struggles to adapt and cope with changing environments.