Elsevier today announced the highlights of its journal impact factor performance in 2008. Elsevier overall saw 75% of its journal impact factors (IF) increase from 2007 to 2008. According to the 2008 Journal Citation Report(R) published by ThomsonReuters, Elsevier journals took the #1 position in 51 categories (of 229) across all of the sciences and social sciences.

In addition, 30 Elsevier journals got their first impact factor this year. Cell Stem Cell (http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/home) (16.826) entered the Cell Biology category ranked 6th (of 157 journals), while Cell Host Microbe (http://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/home) (7.436) entered the Microbiology category ranked 10th (of 91 journals).

LONDON, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Online Poker Players of all Levels can Chase Their way to Thousands of Cash Prizes this Summer at DevilfishPoker.com in the World's Biggest Rake Chase

DevilfishPoker.com today announces its World's Biggest Rake Chase promotion running from July 1 to September 30 and offering over euro 1.7 million in prizes.

The World's Biggest Rake Chase is free to enter for players of all levels and bankrolls and takes place over three monthly chase periods - July 1 to 31, August 1 to 31 and September 1 to 30. All real money play counts towards this World's Biggest Rake Chase including cash games, sit go tournaments and multi-table tournaments.

LONDON, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

The Healthcare Group at Frost Sullivan is pleased to announce its 2009 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on the European Hospital Information Systems (HIS) Market to be held on Tuesday, 7th July 2009, at 2 p.m. GMT.

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Although most hospitals in Europe have some kind of information system in place, only a few have fully integrated and functional hospital information systems solutions installed. The Frost Sullivan briefing will cover latest market trends, challenges and market metrics in the European market and also gives a detailed overview from the end-user perspective.

DOHA, Qatar, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Young Innovator Awarded 300,000 $ in Competition Final

Lebanese contestant Bassam Jalgha was yesterday evening declared winner of the first series of Stars of Science, a new Pan-Arab innovation contest initiated by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development.

At the end of a heated grand finale held at the Aspire Sports Academy in Doha and televised live across the Arab world, viewers awarded 62% of the votes to the creator of Dozan, an automatic tuner for stringed instruments, against 38% for Mohammed Orsod and his Orsod project, a cooking oil tester.

BALTIMORE, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Northrop Grumman Cobham Intercoms LLC (NGCI LLC), a company formed by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Cobham (LSE: COB), has been selected to provide the VIS-X Vehicular Intercommunication System Expanded for the U.S. Army's Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM).

Under the terms of this indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract, the NGCI team is required to be able to deliver up to 500 VIS-X systems per month during the first year following completion of First Article Testing and up to 2,000 systems per month in subsequent years. The total value of the 10-year ID/IQ contract has an anticipated not-to-exceed ceiling of US$2.4 billion.

UPPSALA, Sweden, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Financing Led by SLS Invest Will Fund Gyros to Profitability

PLEASANTON, California, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- New LA-200E Tracks Up to 4,000 Wi-Fi Assets Including 802.11n

Trapeze Networks, a Belden brand (NYSE: BDC), today announced its new Trapeze LA-200E Location Appliance(TM), a system that quickly and continuously locates and tracks anything broadcasting a Wi-Fi signal. The Trapeze LA-200E doubles the number of clients it supports and is the first product supporting locating and tracking 802.11n clients. The LA-200E works in concert with Wi-Fi equipment from a wide variety of WLAN infrastructure providers in addition to Trapeze Networks NonStop Wireless infrastructure.

Location, Location, Location

PLEASANTON, California, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Perimeter Security Solution: Ultimate Cyber Barrier

Today, Trapeze Networks, a Belden brand (NYSE: BDC), announced global availability of the Trapeze RF Firewall(TM), a location-based firewall securing wireless LAN networks (WLANs). The Trapeze RF Firewall is the first application available on the new Trapeze LA-200E Location Appliance, also announced today. (See June 29, 2009 press release, Demand for Location Services Driving Trapeze Networks to Deliver High Capacity Solutions.)

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Area reduction and performance gain with slim platform for analog and power management system-on-chip applications

PARIS, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Provides Service Providers With a New Level of Control in the Management and Delivery of Targeted Mobile Advertisements