LONDON, January 21 /PRNewswire/ --

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As part of the GBP12 million programme to renovate Belfast City Hall, lighting specialist Dernier Hamlyn has designed and manufactured what is believed to be the largest chandelier in Ireland.

The intention was to replicate the light fitting that was installed in the City Hall when it was opened in 1906, which was damaged beyond repair when the building was bombed in 1941. However, the only reference material available was photography from the turn of the century as it is not known what became of the original chandelier.

STAINES, England, January 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Innovative Treatment Approach Offers Major Step Forward in the Long-Term Management of This Chronic Disease

STAINES, England, January 23 /PRNewswire/ --

KAKAMEGA, Kenya, January 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Much Needed Health Facility Completed By The Vestergaard Frandsen Company

A ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring Kenyan Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi, South African musician Yvonne Chaka Chaka, and others was held today for the Emusanda Health Centre, marking the beginning of a brighter future for rural Kenyans who recently learned they had HIV. The centre will ensure that local residents have access to high quality medical care and counseling. It was rehabilitated and equipped by Vestergaard Frandsen, the company that also developed and financed the communitywide HIV testing campaign at which the residents learned they were HIV positive.

MUMBAI, India, January 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The growing residential water treatment systems market in India, estimated to have a potential of nearly INR 15 billion, has new participants vying with well-established participants for a slice of this lucrative market. Contaminated water is still a menace in India, with scant regard for environmental standards and the inability of cash-crunched municipalities to effectively treat the piped potable water supplied to consumers. To add to consumers' water woes, naturally occurring salts and metals in the water are compelling them to purchase and use point-of-use water treatment systems.

MUNICH, Germany, January 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Global Lingerie Design Competition Heads Into its Second Round, This Year Under the Motto of Icons

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Underwear manufacturer Triumph is kicking off 2009 with the second launch of its global lingerie design competition for young fashion and design students. This year, young talents will not only be selected by the prestigious jury in Milan, they will also be chosen by visitors to the http://www.triumph-inspiration-award.com website who will also be able vote on who should receive the award.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, January 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier today announced the launch of SciTopics (http://www.scitopics.com), a free online expert-generated knowledge sharing service for the research community to quickly offer scientific, technical and medical knowledge on a variety of subjects. Designed as a perfect starting point for scientific research, the website integrates a content publishing platform with search functionalities and community features. SciTopics guarantees high scientific standards by incorporating a very strict editorial policy, safeguarded by subject specific editors. The service includes a continually growing number of pages with over 650 SciTopics pages today, from more than 800 scientists.

Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger's heroic Hudson River landing was a good reminder that a twenty pound bird at 200 miles per hour is not so different from a bowling ball shot from a cannon. The results range from minor dents to Flight 1549's disabled engines to the damage below: double-lapped, 1/16” reinforced aluminum totally blown through, and feathers clear to the cockpit.

Half a mile underground is probably the last place you might expect to be able to observe atmospheric phenomena. If you knew about the MINOS experiment, however, you might think otherwise. MINOS, which stands for Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search, was built to detect particles originating far away but of terrestrial origin.

Recently, researchers have noticed that the detectors at MINOS occasionally detect particles from the atmosphere, and that these detections correlate with weather patterns in the high atmosphere.

Did a catastrophic flood of biblical proportions occur, as stated in the story of Noah's Ark?    If so, it may have been the shores of the Black Sea that were drowned 9,500 years ago, wiping out early Neolithic settlements around its perimeter.

Imaging systems, artificial intelligence and computer programs for facial recognition could get a boost by  work from Dr. Adrian Dyer of Monash University,  one of Australia's leading bee experts - he says his latest research shows that honeybees can learn to recognize human faces even when seen from different viewpoints.

The findings show that despite the highly constrained neural resources of the insects (their brains are 0.01 per cent the size of the human brain) their ability has evolved so that they're able to process complex visual recognition tasks.