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World's 1st Multilingual User Generated Gaming Website Zapakworld.com Launched

World's 1st Multilingual User Generated Gaming Website Zapakworld.com Launched

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

MUMBAI, India, October 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Largest Casual Gaming Destination in the World

- Zapakworld.com Would be Available in 6 Languages

Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd, India's largest online gaming company, a Reliance ADA Group Venture, today launched their first gaming portal for the international markets - Zapakworld.com. This initiative marks the company's foray in the international market.

Essilor - Financial Information For The First Nine Months Of 2008

Essilor - Financial Information For The First Nine Months Of 2008

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, October 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Robust Organic Growth, Revenue up 5.4%

Essilor International, the world leader in ophthalmic optics, today announced its consolidated revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2008.

Consolidated revenue - nine months

EUR millions 2008 2007 % change % change (9 months) (9 months) (reported)* (like-for-like) Consolidated revenue 2,277.8 2,200.3 +3.5% +5.4% Europe 1,022.6 987.2 +3.6% +2.7% North America 945.1 932.4 +1.4% +6.3% Asia-Pacific 211.6 200.9 +5.3% +8.8% Latin America 98.5 79.8 +23.5% +20.1%

*Changes in scope of consolidation added 3.9%; the currency effect was a negative 5.8%.

Extreme Matter: Center Of Jupiter May Hold A Secret For Our Renewable Energy Future

Extreme Matter: Center Of Jupiter May Hold A Secret For Our Renewable Energy Future

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

Research that has provided a deeper understanding into the centre of planets could also provide the way forward in the world's quest for cleaner energy.

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, working alongside researchers at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Central Laser Facility, has gained a deeper insight into the hot, dense matter found at the centre of planets and as a result, has provided further understanding into controlled thermonuclear fusion.
Bloodhound SSC - A Car Moving At One Thousand Miles Per Hour

Bloodhound SSC - A Car Moving At One Thousand Miles Per Hour

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

What does it take to build a car capable of going 1,000 MPH, 30% faster than any car that has gone before?  Richard Noble of Swansea University and lead of the aerodynamics team for the BLOODHOUND SSC (super sonic car) Project, intends to find out by 2011.

Solar Cell Efficiency Reaches 25 Percent Efficiency, Without Changing A Thing

Solar Cell Efficiency Reaches 25 Percent Efficiency, Without Changing A Thing

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

The University of New South Wales ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence says they have set a new standard by creating the first silicon solar cell to achieve 25 percent effiency, surpassing their previous record of 24.7 percent.
Nitrogen Trifluoride - The Greenhouse Gas You Never See Movies About On Your Flat Screen TV

Nitrogen Trifluoride - The Greenhouse Gas You Never See Movies About On Your Flat Screen TV

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

Enjoying your HD TV?  Nitrogen trifluoride is one of several gases used during the manufacture of liquid crystal flat-panel displays, thin-film photovoltaic cells and microcircuits. Many industries have used the gas in recent years as an alternative to perfluorocarbons, which are also potent greenhouse gases, because it was believed that no more than 2 percent of the NF3 used in these processes escaped into the atmosphere.

Oops.  Turns out it is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than previously estimated, according to a team of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. 
Radon Exposure At Old Uranium Plant Underestimated - Study

Radon Exposure At Old Uranium Plant Underestimated - Study

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

University of Cincinnati scientists say that a recent scientific study of a now-closed uranium processing plant near Cincinnati has identified a second, potentially more significant source of radon exposure for former workers.   That source—six silos filled with uranium ore in the production area—resulted in relatively high levels of radon exposure to 12 percent of the workers. More than half (56 percent) of the workers were exposed to low levels of radon while working at the site. 
Green Tea May Delay Onset Of Diabetes

Green Tea May Delay Onset Of Diabetes

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

A powerful antioxidant in green tea may prevent or delay the onset of type 1 diabetes, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.

Researchers were testing EGCG, green tea's predominant antioxidant, in a laboratory mouse with type 1 diabetes and primary Sjogren's syndrome, which damages moisture-producing glands, causing dry mouth and eyes. 
Fighting Infections - This 'Protein Compass' May Be The Answer

Fighting Infections - This 'Protein Compass' May Be The Answer

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

Amoebas glide toward their prey with the help of a protein switch that controls a molecular compass, biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered.    Their finding is important because the same molecular switch is shared by humans and other vertebrates to help immune cells locate the sites of infections.
'Organic' Electronics: Self-Assembling Wires May Mimic Human Tissue

'Organic' Electronics: Self-Assembling Wires May Mimic Human Tissue

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

From pacemakers constructed of materials that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient's body can't discern the difference to devices that bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement to paralyzed limbs, the possibilities presented by organic electronics read like something from a science fiction novel.
Religiosity More Important In Battling Depression Than Church Attendance

Religiosity More Important In Battling Depression Than Church Attendance

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

Those who worship a higher power often do so in different ways. Whether they are active in their religious community, or prefer to simply pray or meditate, new research out of Temple University suggests that a person's religiousness – also called religiosity – can offer insight into their risk for depression. 

Lead researcher Joanna Maselko, Sc.D., characterized the religiosity of 918 study participants in terms of three domains of religiosity: religious service attendance, which refers to being involved with a church; religious well-being, which refers to the quality of a person's relationship with a higher power; and existential well-being, which refers to a person's sense of meaning and their purpose in life.
Tesofensine Just May Work For Obesity

Tesofensine Just May Work For Obesity

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

According to trials, a new obesity drug, Tesofensine can produce weight loss twice that of currently approved obesity drugs.
You Knew This - Surgeons Who Practice Are Better At It

You Knew This - Surgeons Who Practice Are Better At It

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

Approximately 180,000 new cases of lung cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States and about 40 percent of those diagnosed will undergo surgery as part of their treatment.   Every patient assumes it will go well but patients operated on by surgeons who do not routinely remove cancer from the lungs may be at a higher risk for complications, according to a study conducted by researchers at Duke University Medical Center.

"Our study found that hospitals that do higher volumes of these types of surgeries have correspondingly lower mortality rates than those who do fewer of the procedures," said Andrew Shaw, M.D., an anesthesiologist at Duke and lead investigator on the study. 
Hydrogen Sulfide - The Smelly Way To Lower Blood Pressure

Hydrogen Sulfide - The Smelly Way To Lower Blood Pressure

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

Anyone with a nose knows the rotten-egg odor of hydrogen sulfide - the polite term is 'gas' when it is generated by bacteria living in the human colon. An international team of scientists has discovered that cells inside the blood vessels of mice naturally make the gassy stuff, and that it controls blood pressure. 
Global Warming Hasn't Hurt Rainforest Diversity (Yet)

Global Warming Hasn't Hurt Rainforest Diversity (Yet)

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

The Amazon rainforest is a puzzle of ecology.   Despite concerns about climate change, rainforests are thriving, even in the face of drought.   In a new Science study conducted in the Yasuni forest dynamics plot of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, the most diverse tropical forest site associated with the Center for Tropical Forest Science/Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatory network (CTFS/SIGEO), there are  600 species of birds and 170 of mammals and 1,100 species of trees in the 25 hectare plot―more than in all of the U.S. and Canada, combined.
Gene Regulation – It’s All In The DNA

Gene Regulation – It’s All In The DNA

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

Scientists in Cambridge, UK, using a mouse with a human chromosome in its cells, discovered that gene expression, contrary to what was previously thought, is mostly controlled by regulatory DNA sequences.



Mice and humans (and most vertebrates) share the majority of their genes but a distinct gene regulation – so, when and where these shared genes become activated – assures their many individual characteristics, and knowledge of this regulation is crucial if we want one day to be able to control gene expression.


Insurers Warned: Financial Turmoil Does Not Eclipse Climate Change Risks

Insurers Warned: Financial Turmoil Does Not Eclipse Climate Change Risks

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

SYDNEY, Australia, October 23 /PRNewswire/ --

A new global research report on insurance -- the world's largest industry(1) -- underscores the importance of tackling climate change despite the current global financial crisis, given that climate change in 2008 is named the top strategic threat to the insurance industry(2).

Biometric Encryption - Using Only Pictures From Your Mobile Phone

Biometric Encryption - Using Only Pictures From Your Mobile Phone

Oct 23 2008 | comment(s)

Phones can do almost anything these days - photos, music, television - but safely protecting biometric data is something new.   Ileana Buhan, a PhD student at the University of Twente, has been researching this new way of employing biometrics. She receives her doctorate from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science on 23 October. 
Apigenin - Why Fruits And Vegetables Improve Patient Response To Chemotherapy

Apigenin - Why Fruits And Vegetables Improve Patient Response To Chemotherapy

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

The leading cause of death in all cancer patients continues to be the resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapy, a form of treatment in which chemicals are used to kill cells.   A study by UC Riverside biochemists that focuses on cancer cells reports that ingesting apigenin,  a naturally occurring dietary agent found in vegetables and fruit , improves cancer cells' response to chemotherapy.

Xuan Liu, a professor of biochemistry, and Xin Cai, a postdoctoral researcher working in her lab, found that apigenin localizes tumor suppressor p53, a protein, in the cell nucleus – a necessary step for killing the cell that results in some tumor cells responding to chemotherapy.
Omnicell And Avantec Launch Europe's Largest Deployment Of Automated Medical Supply Systems

Omnicell And Avantec Launch Europe's Largest Deployment Of Automated Medical Supply Systems

Oct 22 2008 | comment(s)

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, October 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Foundation Trusts of Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College Hospital within UK's National Health Service select OmniSupplier(R) cabinet systems

Omnicell, Inc., (Nasdaq: OMCL) a leading provider of system solutions to acute healthcare facilities, and Avantec, Omnicell's UK distributor, today announced that three of London's largest hospitals within United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) have announced their joint selection of OmniSupplier(R) cabinet systems in a project budgeted at more than US$10 million. The Omnicell systems form a cornerstone of the project which includes an entirely new logistics process for managing medical and surgical supplies.