MILTON KEYNES, England, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Businesses are being warned to brace themselves for a sharp increase in fraud during the run-up to Christmas.

A combination of the credit crunch, redundancies and too much alcohol at the office party can push disgruntled workers, managers and even directors over the edge and into crime, according to leading forensic computing investigator Andrew Sheldon.

People do stupid things at Christmas, says Sheldon, MD of Evidence Talks Ltd. Loaded with drink, they might return to the office convinced they are uniquely skilled to steal from their employers without getting caught.

LONDON, December 15 /PRNewswire/ -- BIS Ltd, a leading Data Centre and Managed Service Provider, has seen a huge surge in enquiries focussed on outsourcing server management. Historically, whilst BIS was recognised as a niche player in this market, we often saw deals going to 'big-name' competitors at the last hurdle. What we've seen over the last quarter is a huge surge in the take up of our managed services. New clients have told us that our extremely attractive pricing combined with reference customers praising our customer service caused them to take a much closer look at our offering, said David Pyemont, Chairman of BIS.

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The closer scientists look at Saturn's small moon Enceladus, the more they find evidence of an active world. The most recent flybys of Enceladus made by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have provided new signs of ongoing changes on and around the moon. The latest high-resolution images of Enceladus show signs that the south polar surface changes over time.

Researchers have figured out why a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine used in 1966 to inoculate children against the infection instead caused severe respiratory disease and effectively stopped efforts to make a better one. The findings in Nature Medicine could restart work on effective killed-virus vaccines not only for RSV but other respiratory viruses, researchers say. They also say the new findings debunk a popular theory that the 1966 vaccine was ineffective because the formalin used to inactivate the virus disrupted critical antigens, the substances that stimulate the production of protective antibodies.

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- Award Recognizes the 100 'Most Promising' Asian Companies Driving the Future of Technology

Red Herring has announced that ProGenTech Limited was a winner of the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies based in Asia.

The Red Herring editorial board diligently surveyed the entrepreneurial scene throughout Asia and identified the top 100 out of more than 1,000 closely evaluated companies that are leading the next wave of innovation.

Learning a feeling of safety activates cellular and molecular processes that act against depression. This has been analysed using a new animal model that helps examine and explain the relevant cell biology processes more effectively. The findings now published in the journal Neuron show that "learned safety" can have an anti-depressive effect comparable to pharmacological antidepressants but that this effect is controlled by other molecular processes. 

As ice melts away from Antarctica, parts of the continental bedrock are rising in response -- and other parts are sinking, scientists have discovered, and the finding will give much needed perspective to satellite instruments that measure ice loss on the continent, and help improve estimates of future sea level rise.

"Our preliminary results show that we can dramatically improve our estimates of whether Antarctica is gaining or losing ice," said Terry Wilson, associate professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University.  Wilson reported the research in a press conference Monday, December 15, 2008 at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.    These results come from a trio of global positioning system (GPS) sensor networks on the continent.

You can't stop cancer.   The nature of mutations is that they aren't predictable so they can't be vaccinated against or prevented in any way we understand those terms today.   Stopping cancer from killing people is another matter.   Metastasis is the ability of cancer cells to move from a primary site to form more tumors at distant sites and it's how cancer spreads and eventually kills. It is a complex process in which cell motility and invasion play a fundamental role.

Essential to our understanding of how metastasis develops is identification of the molecules, and characterisation of the mechanisms that regulate cell motility.  These mechanisms have been poorly understood.

LONDON, December 15 /PRNewswire/ --

LONDON, December 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- World Leading Treatment Programme for Premature Ejaculation and Erectile Dysfunction Launch Large-Scale Billboard Campaign in the UK

The Advanced Medical Institute (AMI), will today launch a bold and direct billboard campaign across 196 sites across London, emblazoned with the slogan Want Longer Lasting Sex? targeted at men and women who suffer with problems of sexual dysfunction.