FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- LORENZ today announced the release of version 3.0 of its popular eValidator validation tool. The name change from eCTD Validator reflects the broader validation scope the tool has received in this major upgrade.

Our validation utility has numerously been called the most advanced validation tool available, says Wolfgang Witzel, President of LORENZ Life Sciences Group. In this upgrade, we have included additional validation profiles and have even created a basic free version that can be downloaded from our website.

LONDON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Misys plc (LSE: MSY), the global application software and services company, today announces that European-Russian Bank,a.s. (Evropsko-ruska banka, a.s.), a Czech-based subsidiary of the First Czech-Russian Bank, Llc, Moscow, has successfully implemented Misys Midas. The bank group will now be able to enhance the service it provides its customers not only in Russia, but also now in the Czech Republic.

The Czech Republic is becoming an attractive market for Russian banks as the trade between the two countries increases. European-Russian Bank is offering corporate and retail services to customers in the Czech Republic, focusing in the first line on export-import finance. It has selected Misys Midas to underpin this increase in business.

LONDON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Protx, the UK's Fastest Growing Payment Service Provider, Becomes Sage Pay

- Enhanced Merchant Services and 24/7 UK-Based Customer Support Provide Backdrop for New Brand

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From today, Protx, the UK's largest independent payment service provider and a division of business software and services company Sage, becomes Sage Pay. The new brand reflects the payment providers' commitment to safeguard internet transactions in the future and comes amidst a whole host of enhancements that provide internet retailers with a streamlined and cost efficient means to manage their finances.

STOCKHOLM, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmalink AB today announced that it has strengthened its Board of Directors as the company's portfolio continues to move towards late stage product development and commercialization. Two highly experienced pharmaceutical and biotechnology advisors, Anders Wiklund and Jens Christensen, are joining the Board. In addition, Lennart Hansson, Director of the lifesciences business area at Industrifonden joins the Board as the Industrifonden representative.

LONDON and BRIGHTON, England, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Stress is Life, and Life is Stress

We are all living in stressful, uncertain times, but it may be a surprise to you that the body has only one response to stress and that is to produce stress hormones. This is true whether:

- You are being chased down the road by a man with an axe - You owe the bank GBP750,000 pounds with no means to pay - You are just about to go out in front of an audience of 40,000 people to sing - You don't eat correctly to balance your blood sugar levels

There is no time like the present to protect yourself from the effects of stress that can be caused by modern living, especially in the current climate.

In last week’s column I described how Bill Irvine uses radio astronomy techniques to detect and identify organic compounds in interstellar space. Why is it so important for the origin of life on Earth that organic compounds are scattered throughout our galaxy?

DOHA, Qatar, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- ASPETAR - Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital was officially named as a FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence. Following the strategy implemented with the opening of the first FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence at the Schulthess Clinic in Zurich in May 2005, world football's governing body has proceeded to set a worldwide network of FIFA Medical Centres of Excellence to ensure that players have access to high quality football medicine.

MOSCOW, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. updates Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, adding GPU acceleration to recover PGP(R) Disk passwords up to 200 times faster. The new GPU-accelerated product uses standard NVIDIA video cards to accelerate password recovery, and costs less than products using dedicated hardware. The new cost-effective PGP Disk password recovery solution is not only more affordable than competition, but delivers results 10 to 200 times faster than CPU-only algorithms and faster than products based on dedicated hardware such as Xilinx FPGAs.

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CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, April 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Strong 10.3% Growth in First-Quarter Revenue

Essilor International, the world leader in ophthalmic optics, today announced consolidated revenue of EUR840.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2009, representing a reported 10.3% increase on the first quarter of 2008. Excluding the currency effect, growth was 5.4% for the period.

In the 19th century, the Rosetta Stone allowed scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics. 

But many mysteries remain about the symbols found on other ancient artifact, including those of a people that inhabited the Indus valley on the present-day border between Pakistan and India. Some experts question whether the symbols represent a language at all, or are merely pictograms that bear no relation to the language spoken by their creators.