BOCA RATON, Florida, January 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Hotel to Implement Property Management, Point-of-Sale, Sales & Catering Systems

Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading provider of innovative information technology and hospitality software solutions, announced today that Aston Hotel, Sheffield, located in South Yorkshire, U.K., has selected a comprehensive Visual One Suite of Products by Agilysys to streamline operations at the 78-room property, which is scheduled to open in April 2008. Aston Hotel, Sheffield is owned and managed by Aston Hotels. Currently, two other Aston Hotels properties are using Visual One solutions.

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A new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity, bringing with it increased risks for power grids, critical military, civilian and airline communications, GPS signals and even cell phones and ATM transactions, showed signs it was on its way late Thursday when the cycle’s first sunspot appeared in the sun’s Northern Hemisphere, NOAA scientists said.

“This sunspot is like the first robin of spring,” said solar physicist Douglas Biesecker of NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. “In this case, it’s an early omen of solar storms that will gradually increase over the next few years.”

A sunspot is an area of highly organized magnetic activity on the surface of the sun.

CALGARY, Canada, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (TSX: ONC, NASDAQ: ONCY) ('Oncolytics') reported today that a research group led by Dr. Richard Vile of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, published the results of its work testing the antitumor efficacy and safety of various combinations of reovirus and cyclophosphamide in vivo. The paper, entitled "Cyclophosphamide Facilitates Antitumor Efficacy against Subcutaneous Tumors following Intravenous Delivery of Reovirus" appears online in the January 1, 2008 issue of Clinical Cancer Research.

Birthmarks have always been something of a mystery. Scientists know that a hemangioma is a benign tumor of cells that line blood vessels, appearing during the first few weeks of life as a large birthmark or lesion, but not much more. Now a study published in Pediatric Dermatology answers some remaining questions and reveals that a disturbance of oxygen depletion was found in placentas of babies who developed infantile hemangioma (IH).

Researchers reviewed placental samples from 26 pregnancies with babies who weighed less than 3.5 pounds, 13 consisting of newborns who developed IH after birth and 13 healthy preterm infants who did not have IH.

Only one of the infants without IH showed an abnormal placenta.

HOUSTON, January 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Dave Wallis has been named Europe-Africa-Middle East Representative for OFS Portal, a global member-based group that works to advance open eCommerce standards in the upstream oil and gas industry. For the last four years Dave Wallis has been the OFS Portal European Representative, supporting its membership through representation at various conferences and meetings with numerous standards bodies in the European area, in addition to liaising with oil and gas companies based in Europe.

ELLINGTON, Connecticut, January 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Accu-Time Systems, Inc., the leading manufacturer of workforce management, time and attendance, and security access products, today announced the launch of its next generation Human Capital Management (HCM) solution, Maximus(TM) - a member of the Global Series from ATS.

Maximus is a state-of-the-art human resources Internet appliance that renders traditional "time clocks" obsolete by removing limitations through the use of open standards. Maximus is a cutting edge solution that both HR and IT executives can embrace with full HCM functionality and the ease of deployment that comes with a plug and play Internet appliance.

Most children are able to imagine their future selves as astronauts, politicians or even superheroes; however, many older adults find it difficult to recollect past events, let alone generate new ones. A new Harvard University study reveals that the ability of older adults to form imaginary scenarios is linked to their ability to recall detailed memories.

According to the study, episodic memory, which represents our personal memories of past experiences, “allows individuals to project themselves both backward and forward in subjective time.”

LAS VEGAS, CES 2008, January 7 /PRNewswire/ --

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LAS VEGAS, CES 2008, January 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Popular "Presenter/Mouse 2-in-1" to Compete at the Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas

Newton Peripherals, the developer of the revolutionary MoGo Mouse(TM), today announced that its MoGo Mouse X54 PRO has been selected as a finalist in the Best of CES 2008 contest, sponsored by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG).

Only nine percent of 199 beverage samples had benzene levels above the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) limit of 5 parts per billion (ppb) for benzene in drinking water, according to a study by EPA and U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists.

Products containing benzene above the EPA level were reformulated by the manufacturers to minimize or eliminate benzene and one product was discontinued, researchers said. Benzene levels in the reformulated products were 1.1 ppb or less. About 71 percent of beverage samples in the study contained less than 1 ppb. Based on results from the survey and actions taken by the beverage industry, FDA concluded that the levels of benzene found did not pose a safety concern for consumers.

Research on a treasure trove of amber has yielded evidence that France once was covered by a dense tropical rainforest with trees similar to those found in the modern-day Amazon. The report is on 55-million-year-old pieces of amber from the Oise River area in northern France.

In the new study, Akino Jossang and colleagues used laboratory instruments to analyze the fossilized tree sap in an effort to link specific samples of amber to specific kinds of trees. The amber remained intact over the ages, while the trees from which it oozed disappeared. Efforts to make such connections have been difficult because amber from different sites tended to have very similar chemical compositions.