LONDON, February 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown was a surprise visitor to digital marketing company Weboptimiser's offices in London on the day the Government published a plan to secure Britain's place at the forefront of the global digital economy. The interim report contains over 20 recommendations, including specific proposals on universal access to broadband. During his visit, Mr Brown emphasised the scale of Britain's ambition to compete in the digital economy - a market worth about GBP50bn a year.

LONDON, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Think 'FAST' to Identify Signs of Stroke

A three-year campaign to promote public awareness around stroke is being launched by the Department of Health today.

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Stroke, a loss of brain function due to a clot or bleed in the brain, is the third leading cause of death and the single largest cause of adult disability in England. According to The Stroke Association, every year in the UK an estimated 150,000 people have a stroke - resulting in 67,000 deaths.

Stroke accounts for nine per cent of deaths in men and 13 per cent of deaths in women in the UK, and three times as many women die from stroke than breast cancer.

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland and YOKOHAMA, Japan, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Patton and JTS announce mutual commitment to 100% revenue growth in the world's second largest economy. As Master Distributor for Japan, JTS provides local inventory of Patton products with Japanese-language sales, marketing and technical support.

Patton -- the leader in business and carrier-class network access, connectivity, VoIP and triple-play equipment -- and JTS Corporation announce today a strategic partnership that appoints JTS as Master Distributor for the Patton catalog in the Japanese market.

LONDON, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- GPS technology may be your solution for high fleet costs, low productivity and long work hours.

Times are difficult, especially for SMEs with vehicle fleets.

Fleet costs continue to rise while business slows. In some cases, drivers don't do all that they can to be most productive and mitigate costs. And time is always an issue. SME owners work an average of 15 hours more than the general population according to a survey by 02.

Fleet owners also deal with a host of other daily issues that can wear down even the most hardened manager: deliveries to the wrong address, drivers getting lost, billing disputes, drivers missing in action... the list goes on.

LONDON, February 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Latest Upgrades to AmberFin's iCR Software Fuels the Transition to HD, Enables Enhanced Interoperability and Delivers Greater Operational Efficiencies

- Native support for Avid DNxHD and Final Cut Pro - Extended MXF capabilities - Simultaneous ingest and transcoding - Motion compensate SD frame rate conversion included as standard - Enhanced pre-processing capabilities

In the latest upgrade to its flagship content mastering and transcoding software solutions, AmberFin announces the immediate availability of iCR 4.5, which further enhances file-based workflow efficiency and raises the bar on image quality, while reducing cost per deliverable.

There's no question younger scientists who have only really known the Bush presidency believe that Bush was a problem in science, despite the budget increases and the fact that a lot of really terrific science got done in the last 8 years - so they may not see that a stimulus package in science under a president everyone has enthusiasm for could be setting us up for the very same funding bubble (and collapse) that occurred under Bush.

You mat have read recently about chemical fossils discovered in sedimentary rocks in Oman.   Those fossil steroids, remnants of a type of sponge known as Demosponges, are between 635 and 750 million years old. They date back to around the time of the Marinoan glaciation, the last of the huge ice ages at the end of the Neoproterozoic era.

Many of the world's cultural treasures are creations made of organic materials such as paper, canvas, wood and leather which, in prolonged warmth and dampness, attract mold, micro-organisms and insects, causing decay and disintegration.

Show Me The Science Month Day 12

Natural selection is often much like Goldilocks - an organism's traits shouldn't be too hot or too cold; natural selection likes them just right. In other words, traits are under pressure to remain near an optimum. If they deviate too far, natural selection will not-so-gently prod things back to the center. This phenomenon is known as stabilizing selection.

Stabilizing selection has to push against another powerful evolutionary force - random drift. Much of our genetic makeup is influenced by non-adaptive processes, that is, processes that are not particularly favored or disfavored by natural selection, and which do not perform some function that improves the fitness of the organism. Selection and drift have been especially hard to tease apart when it comes to gene regulation. Related species regulate their genes in different ways, but how many of those differences are simply due to random divergence? Trevor Bedford and Daniel Hartl at Harvard University take a crack at this question in a recent paper. They use a mathematical model based on Brownian motion (the kind of random motion you see when you watch pollen grains buffeted about in a drop of water) to determine how well stabilizing selection counteracts the battering of random drift.

Right now we have a tandem situation. Jason-1 and Jason-2 are flying in tandem above our heads. Sounds like fun perhaps, but who cares? And who are Jason and what's with the numbers, anyways?