MUMBAI, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Recently Held Tata Interactive Learning Forum (TLF) Examined the Role of Learning and Skills in Enabling Companies to Stay Competitive.

Here's another reason why dieters should avoid all-you-can-eat buffets: When faced with a large variety of items, consumers tend to underestimate how much of each item is present, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.

Authors Joseph P. Redden (University of Minnesota) and Stephen J. Hoch (University of Pennsylvania) investigated consumers' perceptions of quantity in a set of experiments that may help us understand how quantity perceptions influence portion sizes.

"Does a bowl with both red and blue candies seem to have more or less than a bowl with only one color candy?" the researchers asked. "Contrary to popular belief, the presence of variety actually makes it seem like there are fewer items."

It has been revealed that 1 in 3 people in the UK are still struggling to find an NHS dentist, according to new research from Simplyhealth.

Simplyhealth's Annual Dental Survey has revealed that alarmingly just over a third of Brits (35%) struggled to find an NHS dentist over the last year, which has increased from 23% at the same time in 2008.

Perhaps more shocking is the fact that this figure soars in certain areas of the UK, with over half of the people in Plymouth finding it difficult to get an NHS dentist, closely followed by those in Southampton and Manchester, where 45% and 43% have struggled.

The severity of the situation this year has been heightened by the economic downturn, as almost half of people across the UK have put off visiting the dentist becaus

DENVER, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

In the news release, FARO Introduces New Generation of Best-in-Class 3D Laser Scanners and Software, issued March 30, 2009 by FARO over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the first paragraph, second sentence, should read Two new models, the FARO Laser Scanner Photon 120 and 20, both feature measuring rates of up to 976,000 points-per-second rather than 960,000 points-per-second as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows:

DENVER, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

SAN JOSE, California, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Windows Embedded software-plus-services platform with developer services provides simplified access to the latest tools, resources and help available from Microsoft and its global partner ecosystem.

LONDON, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The health visiting crisis can still be measured in hours, according to Unite, the largest union in the country.

The latest NHS workforce statistics, based on September 2008 figures, reveal that a full-time health visitor job is being lost every 30 hours - a slight improvement on the previous year's figure which showed that every 27 hours a health visitor post disappeared.

Unite, which embraces the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association, said this was 'the final wake-up call' for government to recruit a new generation of health visitors to replace the ageing workforce - as 20% are over 55 and could retire tomorrow.

IRVINE, California, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Hagiwara Sys-Com Co., Ltd., the industry leader in semiconductor application products for industrial/embedded computing -- today announced the introduction of the evaluation kit for the CFast(TM) -- the evolution of the CompactFlash(R) interface utilizing SATA interface.

The default storage interface of common Single Board Computers (SBC) is migrating from the Parallel ATA (PATA) interface to the SerialATA (SATA) interface. With this transition comes a change to storage solution options. The CompactFlash utilizes PATA and will find it harder to find a home in newer SBC systems.