LONDON, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Edison Enables Brits to Green Their PCs for Free

LONDON, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --

Verdiem, a leader in network energy management, today announces the availability of Edison, a free energy monitoring application that allows eco-conscious consumers to actively control their PC's energy consumption - and their household's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. As part of a global campaign against PC energy waste, Verdiem is launching Edison in the UK to help Brits save up to 80 percent of the energy used by their desktop computer, just as Edison users in the US are saving an average of GBP30 per year and 325 kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions per PC.

MONTREAL and MUNICH, Germany, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --

Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of specialized graphics solutions, is pleased to announce that NEC Display Solutions Europe GmbH has chosen and will be shipping Matrox Xenia(TM) Series display controller boards for use with a variety of color and grayscale medical LCD displays.

Matrox Xenia is the first native PCI Express single-slot board with all-digital, triple-monitor output and the flexibility to drive practically any known display configuration. Xenia Series supports resolutions from under 1MP up to 8MP, with up to 1GB of on-board memory, and features new technology to ensure optimum display calibration (via Matrox DLC(TM) and 8/10/13-bit gamma LUTs).

HELSINKI, November 18 /PRNewswire/ -- 4TS Finland Oy, a positioning solutions provider, is today launching new mobile positioning technology, GlobalMPS, Global Mobile Positioning System. This new technology enables operator-independent positioning for mobile devices anywhere a GSM network is available, e.g. also inside the buildings. With GlobalMPS, the limitations of GPS are eliminated and true real-time positioning is made possible.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, November 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Avantium Technologies announced today that Bernard Mulder, MD, MBA, has joined Avantium to lead the business development team for its pharmaceutical business.

Bernard Mulder, Global Vice President Business Development Pharma, will be responsible for Avantium's pharmaceutical service business world-wide. The previous 12 years of his career, Bernard held several international positions at Organon. Before joining Avantium, he was commercially responsible for the Asenapine Global Venture Team. Bernard's experience, commercial skills and drive will help Avantium to take Avantium's pharmaceutical business to the next level.

LONDON, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Director Global Transfer Will Advance P2P Business

LONDON, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Online Payment Provider Enables Simple and Secure Money Transfers Worldwide

LONDON, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --

As Moneybookers' Director Global Money Transfer, Felix Leuschner will be responsible for advancing the growth of its peer-to-peer (P2P) money transfer business. While over half of Moneybookers' five million account holders already use its payment system for email-based remittances, the company is looking to aggressively expand growth in the volume of annual transactions.

In a study I dub “Are you powerful or not?” I’d be in a third category. Why? Because I felt insulted when instructed to do what researchers asked of students. At Northwestern and Stanford, no less. Here’s what happened. Two professors, Adam Galinsky, Professor of Ethics&Decision Management, Northwestern University and Joe Magee, Joe Magee of the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU,  divided undergrads into two groups.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, November 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Avantium has introduced a novel technology to measure corrosion. The technology has broad potential in the oil and chemical industry, where corrosive effects of crude oil, oil fractions and chemicals can have devastating effects on pipelines, refineries and chemical plants. Avantium's novel technology is used to assess the corrosive properties of fluids on metal and provides valuable insights that will help to minimize the damaging effects of corrosion.

Based upon its proprietary Nanoflow technology, Avantium has developed a new tool, which allows the quantitative analysis of corrosion of liquids on metals.

Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from the body.  University of Chicago researchers will describe the discovery, a testimony created by an Iron Age official that includes an incised image of the man, on Nov. 22-23 at conferences of biblical and Middle Eastern archaeological scholars in Boston.

The Neubauer Expedition of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago found the 800-pound basalt stele, 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide, at Zincirli (pronounced "Zin-jeer-lee"), the site of the ancient city of Sam'al. Once the capital of a prosperous kingdom, it is now one of the most important Iron Age sites under excavation. 

New research has traced elevated levels of a specific compound in the brain called kynurenic acid to problem-solving deficits in patients with schizophrenia.

The finding suggests that drugs used to suppress the compound  might be an important supplement to antipsychotic medicines, as these adjuncts could be used to treat the disorder's most resistant symptoms – cognitive impairments.