MELBOURNE, Australia, December 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Quintiq, a leading provider of Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solutions, today announced that Paul Sherrington is joining the Australia New Zealand team as Business Development Manager.

Sherrington has over 10 years of international software industry experience and joins Quintiq from McAfee as a corporate account executive. One of his key initiatives will be to help close cpurrent opportunities with a focus to further expand and grow the Workforce segment of the business in the region.

Paul Sherrington has a wealth of experience in Workforce Management which will bolster our expertise in that sector of the business, said Rob van Egmond, Director Quintiq Australia.

University of Oregon sociologist Aliya Saperstein and sociologist Andrew M. Penner of the University of California, Irvine have a new twist on race - it isn't just appearance but socioeconomic status, they say.   Their new study says that Americans who are unemployed, incarcerated or impoverished today are more likely to be classified and identified as black, by themselves or by others, regardless of how they were seen -- or self identified -- in the past.

MUNICH, Germany, December 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Wirecard AG was commissioned to process credit card payments for the new online shop launched in November by the retail chain Lidl.

The Lidl online shop represents a further development of the stationary Lidl offering on the Internet. Schwarz E-Commerce GmbH Co. KG from Neckarsulm - like Lidl, a member of the Schwarz group of companies - presents new special offers each week on www.lidl-shop.de, ranging from household goods, tools and toys to winter sport articles. In implementing the project, a great deal of importance was assigned to establishing the shop from the very beginning on a technologically sophisticated level and simultaneously exploiting the existing core structures of the Schwarz Group.

PARIS, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --

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PARIS, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Patients Treated With Protelos Could be Better Protected Than With Alendronate

PARIS, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --

The osteoporosis treatment Protelos(R) (strontium ranelate) significantly improved bone structure in postmenopausal women when compared to the bisphosphonate alendronate according to the results of the first head-to-head study of the two drugs(1) recently released in Osteoporosis International, the official journal of the World Congress of Osteoporosis.

With the aid of a straightforward experiment, researchers have provided some clues to one of biology's most complex questions: how ancient organic molecules came together to form the basis of life. 

Specifically, this study, appearing online this week in JBC, demonstrated how ancient RNA joined together to reach a biologically relevant length.

DUBLIN and NEWCASTLE, England, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Marketing Partner UCB Expects to Receive Completed Price and Reimbursement Approval for Tetrabenazine in H1 2009

DUBLIN and NEWCASTLE, England, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Exclusive Distribution Rights Granted in Finland (MediFront) and Taiwan (Giddi Pharma); Distribution Contracts Renewed in Australia and New Zealand

LONDON, December 8 /PRNewswire/ -- BIS Ltd., a provider of hosting and global connectivity solutions for businesses and carriers, today announced that the facility purchased earlier this year is now fully operational and open for Business. A 26 week build and upgrade programme was completed on time and under budget. This included the upgrade of the BIS core network to 10Gig to facilitate rapid customer connections to other BIS data centres.

A key challenge of nanotechnology research is investigating how different materials behave at lengths of merely one-billionth of a meter. When shrunk to such tiny sizes, many everyday materials exhibit interesting and potentially beneficial new properties.

Magnetic behavior is one such phenomenon that can change significantly depending on the size of the material. However, the sheer challenge of observing the magnetic properties of nanoscale material has impeded further study of the topic. 

In the rainforests of equatorial Asia, a link between drought and deforestation is fueling global warming, finds an international study that includes a UC Irvine scientist.

The study, analyzing six years of climate and fire observations from satellites, shows that in dry years, the practice of using fire to clear forests and remove organic soil increases substantially, releasing huge amounts of climate-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

In 2006, the climate on the fast-developing islands of Borneo and Sumatra and in New Guinea and other parts of equatorial Asia was three times drier than in 2000, but carbon emissions from deforestation were 30 times greater – exceeding emissions from fossil fuel burning.