LONDON, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- - New Online Publication Heralds New Focus on Long-Term ROI

Launched today, eWEEK Europe UK (http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk) is the first online publication designed for the 'new era' of IT. Aimed at all IT professionals, it provides a one-stop shop for advertisers and sponsors looking for innovative pan-European opportunities.

eWEEK Europe UK is the first technology news site to fully address the new corporate climate, in which sustainability and return on investment move from 'add-on extras' to business-critical, core essentials. eWeek Europe UK will provide information that supports IT professionals in a critical role that is magnified by recession:

- How to measure and provide real ROI on IT projects

NEW YORK and LONDON, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- CD-adapco today announced the launch of 'No Engineer Left Behind', an exciting new program that offers free CAE software and training, to recently unemployed or displaced engineers. This opportunity, which has an in-kind value of well over $25,000, offers qualifying engineers free licenses and training for STAR-CCM+, CD-adapco's industry leading CFD code, with the aim of increasing their future employability:

AMSTERDAM, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- http://www.King.com, the world's largest skill gaming community has launched a multi-lingual game magazine called http://www.favouritegamesguide.com. It's been our users who more and more asked for it, Matthias Schmidt-Pfitzner, COO of King.com explains. They wanted a magazine to cover all different aspects of online skill gaming. http://www.favouritegamesguide.com offers a mix of game reviews, insights and game related news as well as interviews with gamers and game developers. http://www.favouritegamesguide.com is currently available in English, French and German - and there will be more languages to come.

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SCHLIEREN, Switzerland, March 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Proceeds to Facilitate Clinical Development of Lead Conjugate Vaccine

GlycoVaxyn, a pioneer in the development of innovative conjugated vaccines, today announced the successful closing of a CHF25 million (ca. US$22 million, EUR17 million) Series B financing. The round was led by Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners. Existing investors, Index Ventures and Sofinnova Partners, expressed their commitment to the future of the company through significant participation in this round.

LONDON, March 5 /PRNewswire/ --

The gas turbine market is expected to be quite resilient despite economic slowdown and persisting credit problems in global financial markets. Gas turbines have been the favourite technology for new installations in many parts of the world for quite some time, and the main drivers of the market are not expected to be substantially affected by the current state of the economy.

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MINNEAPOLIS, March 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- NetEx Wins Bronze in Networking Equipment Category of '2008 Products of the Year' Awards

NetEx(R), the leader in high-speed data transport over TCP, won the Bronze award in the networking equipment category of the 2008 Products of the Year competition for its HyperIP 5.5 software, a business continuity and disaster recovery optimization solution for backup, recovery and data replication applications. This is the second time the company has been honored with a Product of the Year award from the editors of TechTarget's Storage Media Group, having won silver for an earlier version of HyperIP in 2004.

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CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, March 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- 2008: Solid Sales and Earnings - Revenue Up 9.7% Excluding the Currency Effect - Contribution Margin at 17.9% - Attributable Profit of EUR382.4 Million (up 8.7% Excluding the Currency Effect) - Recommended Increase in Dividend: +6.5% to EUR0.66 per Share

CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, March 5 /PRNewswire/ --

The Board of Directors of Essilor International, the world leader in ophthalmic optical products, today announced its audited financial results for the year ended December 31, 2008.

Not only have horses been domesticated longer than we thought but they were also milked, says an article in Science.

The researchers have traced the origins of horse domestication back to the Botai Culture of Kazakhstan circa 5,500 years ago, about 1,000 years earlier than thought and about 2,000 years earlier than domestic horses are known to have been in Europe. Their findings strongly suggest that horses were originally domesticated, not just for riding, but also to provide food, including milk.

Researchers have discovered that a long-defunct gene was resurrected during the course of human evolution. This is believed to be the first evidence of a doomed gene – infection-fighting human IRGM – making a comeback in the human/great ape lineage.

The truncated IRGM gene is one of only two genes of its type remaining in humans. The genes are Immune-Related GTPases, a kind of gene that helps mammals resist germs like tuberculosis and salmonella that try to invade cells. Unlike humans, most other mammals have several genes of this type. Mice, for example, have 21 Immune-Related GTPases. Medical interest in this gene ignited recently, when scientists associated specific IRGM mutations with the risk of Crohn's disease, an inflammatory digestive disorder.

We know that lifespan can be extended in some animals by restricting calories such as sugar intake shortly after birth.   Université de Montréal scientists now say that it's not sugar itself that is important in this process but the ability of cells to sense its presence.

Aging is a complex phenomenon and the mechanisms underlying aging are yet to be explained. What researchers do know is that there is a clear relationship between aging and calorie intake. For example, mice fed with half the calories they usually eat can live 40 percent longer. How does this work?