MAIDENHEAD, England, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Study Results Provide Further Evidence That Early Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis With Enbrel(R) Plus Methotrexate in Moderate to Severe Patients can Stop the Disease From Progressing, and Helps Patients Return to More Normal and Productive Lives

LONDON, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies rely on an optimal system health to achieve their objective. Because of today's larger files size, high capacity disks and dramatic rate of fragmenting files, one fundamental thing all Windows users need doing to insure high performance is to defrag their systems.

Defragmentation physically reorganizes the contents of the disk and stores the pieces of each file together to keep the systems optimized.

Not only is defragmentation itself necessary, the choice of defragmentation technology is also crucial.

Microsoft provides an in-built defragmenter. However, many IT administrators quickly realise that it cannot meet the requirements of demanding systems on a professional level.

LONDON, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- ATTN: Scotland Editors

Unite members at the Education Institute of Scotland (EIS) have voted 100% in favour of strike action over their salary settlement which should have been paid from 1st April 2008.

The administrative staff were forced to ballot for strike action after management's final offer of a five year pay deal.

Tony Trench, Unite Regional Official says:

"EIS are in a sound financial position and can therefore afford to honour the salary settlement. They are only asking for retail price index as an award for their hard work.

"EIS administrative staff are united in demanding a fair return for their hard work and a pay offer that recognises this and also reflects the rise in the cost of living.

With the proper spin, forests can be the cause of global warming. They produce methane. American environmentalists have an irrational dislike of nuclear power so they forced America to use more coal so they can be blamed for the spike in CO2.

It takes understanding to go beyond perspective and detailed analysis of the forests impact on climate change is still sketchy. There are roughly 42 million square kilometers of forest on Earth, a swath that covers almost a third of the land surface, and those wooded environments play a key role in both mitigating and enhancing global warming.

The teeming life of forests, and the physical structures containing them, are in continuous flux with incoming solar energy, the atmosphere, the water cycle and the carbon cycle--in addition to the influences of human activities. The complex relationships both add and subtract from the equations that dictate the warming of the planet.

Almost two years after the International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly introduced the category of dwarf planets, the IAU, as promised, has decided on a name for transneptunian dwarf planets similar to Pluto.

The name plutoid was proposed by the members of the IAU Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN), accepted by the Board of Division III, by the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) and approved by the IAU Executive Committee at its recent meeting in Oslo, Norway.

Plutoids are celestial bodies in orbit around the Sun at a distance greater than that of Neptune that have sufficient mass for their self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that they assume a hydrostatic equilibrium (near-spherical) shape, and that have not cleared the neighbourhood around their orbit. The two known and named plutoids are Pluto and Eris. It is expected that more plutoids will be named as science progresses and new discoveries are made.

Genetically modified foods are the enemy, say some activists, but organic foods have caused all the salmonella say others. The food safety message is a mess and Americans lack confidence in the system because of it.

A new national study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health Project on the Public and Biological Security finds that, though there have been food safety incidents in recent years, Americans are confident that the food produced in the United States is safe but have concerns about the safety of imported food produced in some other countries.

The poll found that a majority of Americans believe that the food produced in the U.S. is either very (37%) or somewhat (58%) safe. Only 4% thought US-produced foods were unsafe. When asked about foods available in the U.S. but produced in other countries, fewer than one in ten (6%) considered foods from Canada to be unsafe. In contrast, almost half of Americans (47%) thought food from Mexico was unsafe, and 56% thought this about food from China. Possibly responding to these concerns, about half (53%) of Americans reported at least sometimes looking for information about what countries foods come from when shopping for groceries.

EAST GRINSTEAD, England, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- HSBC France has experienced major benefits from costs savings and better overall productivity after integrating Diskeeper(R) on its two data-centres.

Didier Guieu, System-Architecture Engineer at HSBC France, stated: "Performance has improved, back up and data access time have been considerably reduced. We win both in terms of time and money."

In 1998, Didier Guieu observed that high levels of fragmentation were slowing down the overall system performance.

He relates: "Hours were needed to copy large amount of data, and back ups were not concluding. We noticed that when the server was fragmented, the back up time sometimes needed twice as long to run."

ZUG, Switzerland and CATANIA, Italy, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- AmVac AG, a Swiss biopharmaceutical company based in Zug, is starting its first research cooperation program with Bayer Innovation GmbH on the development of a new influenza vaccine. Joint research and development work is beginning with the Bayer subsidiary Icon Genetics GmbH on a novel production approach. Antigens are to be produced for the first time in tobacco plants which along with AmVac AG's adjuvant MALP-2 are to be developed into an efficient new generation of flu vaccines. The research unit for the preclinical work is being opened today at the Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico in Catania, Sicily.

LONDON, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite, the UK's largest trade union and third largest in the NHS, have overwhelmingly voted to reject the Government's 7.99 per cent three-year pay deal and they have also voted for a ballot on industrial action.

94.8% of Unite's health sector workers - including health visitors, hospital pharmacists, health care chaplains and members in many other health care professions and support services (full list in notes below) voted to turn down the three-year offer worth less than 8%.

Unite Assistant General Secretary Gail Cartmail said: "This overwhelming vote sends a clear message. Our members are angry and frustrated that they are being asked by the government to accept this woefully inadequate three-year pay deal.

MUNICH, Germany, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Chip PC Technologies, a leader in desktop replacement and thin computing, today announced that it will be introducing its Desktop Virtualization solutions supporting the Citrix XenDesktop(TM) delivery solution alongside with its new class of Desktop Appliances.