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ATLANTA, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Universal Event Monitor for SOA integrates new applications with Enterprise Systems Management

Stonebranch(R), Inc., (www.stonebranch.com) the innovation leader in Enterprise Systems Management, today announced the launch of Universal Event Monitor for SOA(TM), a component of its Universal Solutions Suite(TM) that simplifies workload integration by providing a standardized interface between Internet and message-based applications and existing system management tools.

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LONDON, December 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The decision to appoint 24 more full-time specialist community nurses in Barking and Dagenham has been hailed as 'a massive leap forward in public health for the East London borough', Unite the Union has said.

Unite, the largest union in the country, said the decision by the Barking and Dagenham Primary Care Trust (PCT) goes a long way to reverse the health visitor vacancy rate running at 45% in one of the capital's most deprived boroughs.

Unite, which embraces the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association (CPHVA), has been strongly campaigning for the creation for new jobs against the backdrop of a health visiting workforce coping with individual caseloads of up to nearly 4,000 children.

LONDON, December 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Top-level research institutions in the UK and Israel will collaborate, thanks to a bold new initiative of Weizmann UK.

The programme - entitled Making Connections - will bring together scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel with their counterparts from the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London (ICL) and University College London (UCL).

The timing of the project's launch is only too significant as it comes amid continuing attempts to impose an academic boycott on Israeli institutions. Indeed, the UCU (UK Union for Higher Education) has just announced that it is ending its academic boycott of Israel.

HONG KONG, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Convergence of wireless power technologies inspires global alliance promoting universal solution and electronic convenience worldwide

A new global initiative to drive convenience in electronics charging was launched at the first Wireless Power Consortium conference at Hong Kong Science Park today.

The Consortium's eight members include ConvenientPower Limited, Fulton Innovation LLC, Logitech SA, National Semiconductor Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics N.V., Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., Shenzhen Sang Fei Consumer Communications Co. Ltd. and Texas Instruments Incorporated.

A LARGE, GROWING PROBLEM

For the first time, researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have successfully pushed nature beyond its limits by genetically modifying Escherichia coli, a bacterium often associated with food poisoning, to produce unusually long-chain alcohols essential in the creation of biofuels. 

"Previously, we were able to synthesize long-chain alcohols containing five carbon atoms," said James Liao, UCLA professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. "We stopped at five carbons at the time because that was what could be naturally achieved. Alcohols were never synthesized beyond five carbons. Now, we've figured out a way to engineer proteins for a whole new pathway in E. coli to produce longer-chain alcohols with up to eight carbon atoms." 

If you're man, and you give to charity at all, it is more likely to go to a needy person in your neighborhood but if you're a woman you are more likely to be charitable and you will also give to someone local or someone in a foreign country, says new research by Texas A&M University marketing professor Karen Winterich .

Winterich, who teaches marketing at Texas A&M's Mays Business School, says she can predict charitable behavior to different groups by an individual based on just two factors: gender and moral identity. (Moral identity does not measure how moral a person actually is, but rather how important it is to that person to be caring, kind, fair, honest, etc.) 

The festive season has arrived for astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the form of this dramatic new image. It shows the swirling gas around the region known as NGC 2264 — an area of sky that includes the sparkling blue baubles of the Christmas Tree star cluster.

NGC 2264 lies about 2600 light-years from Earth in the obscure constellation of Monoceros, the Unicorn, not far from the more familiar figure of Orion, the Hunter. The image shows a region of space about 30 light-years across.