SAN FRANCISCO, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- 5,000 hours of professional video content from ITN Source now available at www.blinkx.com

blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced a partnership with ITN Source, one of the world's leading providers of professional video content, to give blinkx viewers direct access to ITN Source's market-leading collection of moving image libraries and stock footage on the Web. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and will share resulting advertising revenue with ITN Source.

It seems like common sense but a new study adds empirical weight to commonly held beliefs about health:

1) Don't smoke
2) Exercise
3) Moderate alcohol intake
4) Eating 5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day

People who do those four things live on average an additional fourteen years of life compared with people who adopt none of these behaviors, according to a study published in PLoS Medicine.

The results of this study need to be confirmed in other populations and an analysis of how the combined health behaviors affect quality of life is also needed but the results of the study suggest that these four achievable lifestyle changes could have a marked improvement on the health of middle-aged and older people.

The Commonwealth Fund has issued another indictment of US health care, this one stating that the United States showed the least improvement among 19 countries when it comes to preventable deaths. The new research is published in the January/February issue of Health Affairs and advances their belief that government-controlled health care would be better for U.S. patients than the current system.

The top performers in the survey were France, Japan, and Australia and the authors say there would have been 101,000 fewer deaths in the U.S.

SAN JOSE, California, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- 80%+ High-Efficiency 465W/865W Power, Energy-Saving DDR2/DDR3 Memory

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application optimized, high-performance server and workstation solutions, today unveiled its whisper-quiet family of SuperWorkstations with the debut of its dual-processor (DP) 7045A-C3, 7045A-CT, and uni-processor (UP) 5035B-T+ systems. These quiet (28dB(i)) systems sharply boost overall system performance (up to 30%(i)), increase energy savings with new high-efficiency power supplies and energy-saving DDR2/DDR3 memory, and provide optimum cooling across all CPU speeds.

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- From H-index to Impact Factor, Citation Impact Forum Hosts Expert Commentary and Scholarly Discussion About Citation-based Research Evaluation

Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced the launch of its Citation Impact Forum, an online forum promoting scholarly discussion about all facets of citation-based research evaluation - from Thomson Scientific's own influential Journal Impact Factor to emerging citation metrics, such as the h-index.

Mauve Majesty is one cool lily look-alike. This new pinkish-purple ornamental flower, just patented by Cornell, can last for two weeks in a vase, but when left in the garden, it blooms all summer long in the cooler, northern states until the first hard freeze in the fall.

The new hybrid of the Inca lily (Alstroemeria), which was developed by a Cornell professor, is a non-fragrant perennial that is set apart by its lavender-lilac flower color (which is adorned with dark speckling and a creamy yellow throat), its strong, upright flower stems and its winter hardiness. In greenhouses, the new hybrid never goes dormant and grows year-round.

A favorite book of mine is Evolution: A Scientific American Reader, a collection of articles on astronomy, cell biology, paleontology and anthropology from the print magazine. One of my favorite chapters, "Skin Deep" by Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin, covers the evolution of human skin color. Skin color results from the presence of the pigment melanin, an organic molecule that absorbs UV radiation and neutralizes free-radicals produced by UV radiation. Why do we need worry about UV radiation? UV radiation causes mutations in skin cells leading to skin cancer, and also destroys the essential B vitamin, folate, which is involved in DNA synthesis. The more melanin, the more protection against UV radiation and the darker the skin. Hmm, if that is the case, why do not all humans have dark skin? Better to protect against cancer then, isn't it? Figure from Barsh GS (2003) What Controls Variation in Human Skin Color? PLoS Biol 1(1): e27 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0000027. A traditional skin color map based on the data of Biasutti. Reproduced from http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/ with permission from Dennis O'Neil.

A team of U.S., Israeli and German scientists used computational biology techniques to discover 480 genes that play a role in human cell division and to identify more than 100 of those genes that have an abnormal pattern of activation in cancer cells.

Malignant cells have lost control of the replication process, so detecting differences in cell cycle gene activation in normal and malignant cells provides important clues about how cancers develop, said Ziv Bar-Joseph, a Carnegie Mellon University computational biologist who led the study. These genes also are potential targets for drug therapy.

Unlike many cancer studies, which seek to identify “missing” genes that might cause cancer, this new research shows that genes can contribute to cancer in less obvious ways.

By any measure, Dr. Alan Grainger, Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Leeds, is an internationally-renowned expert on tropical deforestation. He is the author of numerous scientific papers since 1978 and a book, Controlling Tropical Deforestation, published in 1993. He gained his doctorate the University of Oxford in 1987 for producing the world's first global computer simulation model of the tropical forests.

Yet all that will be called into question because he states in a study published in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences that claims about tropical forests declining are not backed up by evidence.

"Every few years we get a new estimate of the annual rate of tropical deforestation,” said Dr Grainger.

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland and BERN, Switzerland, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- SmartNode(TM) Digital Telephone Adapter (S-DTA) Recognized for Outstanding Innovation

- SmartNode(TM) VoIP ... more than just talk

Patton -- the leader in business-class network access, connectivity, and VoIP equipment -- together with Patton-Inalp Networks AG -- creator of SmartNode(TM) industry-leading VoIP technology -- announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC(R)) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com) has named the SmartNode(TM) Digital Telephone Adapter (S-DTA) as a recipient of its 2007 Product of the Year Award.