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Record Number Of Youth Dancing Worldwide To Take A Stand Against HIV And AIDS

Record Number Of Youth Dancing Worldwide To Take A Stand Against HIV And AIDS

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

AMSTERDAM, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Archbishop Desmond Tutu Kicks off Live Connection

More than 50.000 young people will take a stand on the 29th of November during Dance4Life events in 19 countries. The worldwide Dance4Life movement is growing rapidly. This year 150,000 extra youth were reached with Dance4Life Schools Projects and the number of participating countries has almost doubled since 2006. In 2014, Dance4Life wants to have involved at least 1 million youth (Agents of Change) in actively pushing back the spread of HIV and AIDS.

E6 Ventures Wins Investment For Spin Out Company, Diamond Detectors

E6 Ventures Wins Investment For Spin Out Company, Diamond Detectors

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

ASCOT, England, November 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Diamond Detectors Ltd, a subsidiary company set up by Element Six to manufacture innovative diamond detectors and sensors for radiation monitoring applications, today announces that BAE Systems is to take a 50% holding in Diamond Detectors Ltd, investing up to GBP2 million.

The second round investment will offer Diamond Detectors strategic support and a significant potential market for its production.

We welcome on board a strategic investor that has a requirement for the products under development at Diamond Detectors Ltd, says Brendon Grunewald, Head of E6 Ventures. This second round of funding will support the company as it moves into full product commercialisation.

Manish Jha Joins EnvIO Networks As President And CEO

Manish Jha Joins EnvIO Networks As President And CEO

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

ANDOVER, Massachusetts, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Wireless Industry Veteran to Lead Product Expansion and Revenue Growth at Industry's Leading Innovator for Mobile Social Marketing and Discovery

envIO networks today announced that Manish Jha, a seasoned veteran of the mobile content industry, has joined the company as its President and Chief Executive Officer.

Anti-Matter Recipe: Take A Tiny Amount Of Gold, Shoot A Petawatt Laser Through It, Count The Positrons

Anti-Matter Recipe: Take A Tiny Amount Of Gold, Shoot A Petawatt Laser Through It, Count The Positrons

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

What is the latest recipe for anti-matter?  Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear.  The anti-matter, also known as positrons, shoots out of the target in a cone-shaped plasma "jet."

This new ability to create a large number of positrons in a small laboratory opens the door to several fresh avenues of anti-matter research, including an understanding of the physics underlying various astrophysical phenomena such as black holes and gamma ray bursts.  Anti-matter research also could reveal why more matter than anti-matter survived the Big Bang at the start of the universe.
Nanosonics Announces First Authorised European Distributors

Nanosonics Announces First Authorised European Distributors

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

HAMBURG, Germany, November 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Nanosonics (ASX:NAN; FSE:OQS) has formally appointed its first exclusive distributors in Europe located in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France and Scandinavia.

According to Nanosonics' Director and CEO David Radford, this represents the achievement of another key milestone in the commercialisation of the company's launch product, the Trophon EPR, scheduled for March 2009.

The Trophon EPR is an environmentally friendly device specifically designed to disinfect intracavity and surface ultrasound transducers. The product represents Nanosonics' first commercial application of one of its core technologies, the NanoNebulant(TM) technology.

Strong Growth Anticipated For Valve And Actuator Sales In South Africa

Strong Growth Anticipated For Valve And Actuator Sales In South Africa

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

The fragile South African valve and actuator market is starting to find its feet. Manufacturers need to position themselves to reap the maximum benefits from the diffuse increase in demand.

New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.industrialautomation.frost.com), South African Valves and Actuators Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $265.5 million in 2007 and estimates this to reach $668.4 million in 2014.

Covered Stent Use Minimized By European Health Care Reforms, According To Millennium Research Group

Covered Stent Use Minimized By European Health Care Reforms, According To Millennium Research Group

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

According to Millennium Research Group's (MRG's) Europe II Markets for Peripheral Vascular Devices report, covering Spain, Switzerland, Benelux, and Nordic countries, health care reforms have limited the adoption of covered stents in peripheral vascular applications.

While covered stent penetration is nearly 15% in the US, these devices account for less than 5% of stents placed in Europe II because physicians often cannot justify the price premium commanded by these devices.

World COPD Day 2008 Features New Initiatives That Drive Enhanced Diagnosis And Treatment

World COPD Day 2008 Features New Initiatives That Drive Enhanced Diagnosis And Treatment

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

ROME, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global Survey Reveals Need for Intense Public Education and Action -

World COPD Day 2008 features new patient and health professional initiatives that address the misconceptions and lack of awareness surrounding chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). These misconceptions -- revealed in a global survey, the International COPD Coalition (ICC) Report -- include poor public awareness that smoking is the main cause of COPD, a failure to diagnosis COPD in its early stages, when medication can be used to prevent further lung deterioration, and a mistaken belief that initial COPD symptoms, like coughing and shortness of breath, are a normal consequence of aging.

Rising Oil Prices And Energy Security Issues Heighten Interest In Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles

Rising Oil Prices And Energy Security Issues Heighten Interest In Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Increasing oil price and growing concerns over energy security are helping accelerate the development and commercialization of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Federal and local governments have been proactively funding fuel cell technology and in the medium term, there would be rigorous developments in fuel cell technology, standardization of production and storage of hydrogen, and ramping up of the mammoth task of building hydrogen infrastructure.

New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.automotive.frost.com), Strategic Analysis of Global Market for Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles, finds that the global market for fuel cell electric vehicles is expected to be around 120,000 vehicles by 2015.

Independent Trial Finds NIVEA Visage DNAge To Be More Effective Than Anti Ageing Products 6 Times Its Price

Independent Trial Finds NIVEA Visage DNAge To Be More Effective Than Anti Ageing Products 6 Times Its Price

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Trial by 60 Millions de Consommateurs - French Equivalent of top Consumer mag Which?

Now with consumer confidence in expensive face creams running high, French consumer bible 60 Millions De Consommateurs has burst the bubble on the benefits of anti-wrinkle day creams with their latest comprehensive testing.

To view the Multimedia News Release, please click: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/nivea/35987

NIVEA Visage DNAge - the cheapest product in the trial - was proven to be the second most effective product out of the 12 products trialled. It came second beaten by only 0.5 points but costs almost half the price of the overall winner and ten times less than others tested!

Food Insecurity Complicates Land Use For Biofuel Feedstock Production In Southern Africa

Food Insecurity Complicates Land Use For Biofuel Feedstock Production In Southern Africa

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Significant potential exists for additional crop production in Southern Africa based on land availability. However, growing crops for biofuel feedstock will only be realised if there is concerted effort from key stakeholders to address the food shortages in the region.

New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.chemicals.frost.com), Opportunities for Biofuel Feedstock Production in Southern Africa, finds that the market is still in its development stage. Expansion of the agricultural sector to include crop production for biofuels has been hampered by the absence of coherent biofuel policies, a lack of resources dedicated to the agricultural sector, declining agricultural production and climate change.

4,600 Year Old Burial Site Contains Oldest 'Nuclear Family'

4,600 Year Old Burial Site Contains Oldest 'Nuclear Family'

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

Researchers dated remains from four multiple burials discovered in Germany in 2005 and found that the 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other – an unusual practice in Neolithic culture.  One of the graves was found to contain a female, a male and two children. Using DNA analysis, the researchers established that the group consisted of a mother, father and their two sons aged 8-9 and 4-5 years: the oldest molecular genetic evidence of a nuclear family in the world (so far).

The burials, discovered and excavated at Eulau, Saxony-Anhalt, were also unusual for the great care taken in the treatment of the dead. The remains of thirteen individuals were found in total, all of whom had been interned simultaneously.
Why Right Brained People Have Better Memories - Long-term Potentiation

Why Right Brained People Have Better Memories - Long-term Potentiation

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

150 years ago it was discovered that the speech center is in the left cortex  and since then functional differences between left and right hemisphere have become well known; language is mainly handled by the left hemisphere while spatial recognition is more specialized to the right hemisphere.

However, the structural differences of synapses underlying left-right difference of the brain have remained unknown. Now a research team led by Prof Ryuichi Shigemoto at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan, and colleagues have found that synaptic size and shape in the center of the spatial memory (i.e. hippocampus) were asymmetrical between synapses receiving input from the left and right hemisphere.
Water Vapor - The Underappreciated Greenhouse Gas In Global Warming

Water Vapor - The Underappreciated Greenhouse Gas In Global Warming

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

Water vapor is known to be Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas, but the extent of its contribution to global warming has been diminished by attention on the economic/political millstone of western civilization carbon dioxide. Using recent NASA satellite data, researchers have estimated more precisely than ever the heat-trapping effect of water in the air, validating the role of the gas as a critical component of climate change.

Andrew Dessler and colleagues from Texas A&M University in College Station confirmed that the heat-amplifying effect of water vapor is potent enough to double the climate warming caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. 
First Pivotal Trials Begin For Boehringer Ingelheim's Novel Triple Angiokinase Inhibitor Vargatef(TM) (BIBF 1120)

First Pivotal Trials Begin For Boehringer Ingelheim's Novel Triple Angiokinase Inhibitor Vargatef(TM) (BIBF 1120)

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

INGELHEIM, Germany, November 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Progress Continues Across Expanding Oncology Pipeline With Two Compounds now in Phase III Clinical Development and a Potential First-in-Class Polo-Like Kinase 1 Inhibitor Soon to Enter Phase II

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Asthma Over-Diagnosed In One Third Of Adults

Asthma Over-Diagnosed In One Third Of Adults

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

Asthma may be overdiagnosed in countries like Canada, suggests a longitudinal study of 540 obese and non-obese adults (http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg1121.pdf)that found approximately one third of Canadians with physician-diagnosed asthma do not have asthma when objectively tested.
Is Your Starbucks Grande Mocha A Necessity? It Is If You Lack Self-Control

Is Your Starbucks Grande Mocha A Necessity? It Is If You Lack Self-Control

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

Why do so many people give up on those New Year's resolutions to lose weight or curb luxury spending? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says it has to do with the way our goals intersect with our natures and it uncovers some important differences in the way people categorize "necessities" and "luxuries.".

The study by authors Cait Poynor (University of Pittsburgh) and Kelly L. Haws (Texas A&M University) is one of the first to try to understand why some people have more trouble than others regulating behaviors.
Forests Overlooked In Climate Control

Forests Overlooked In Climate Control

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

In a study to be published next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists show that forests may influence the Earth's climate in important ways that have not previously been recognized.

When sunlight reaches the Earth's surface it can either be absorbed and converted to heat or reflected back to outer space, where it doesn't influence the Earth's temperature. Scott Ollinger, a professor at the University of New Hampshire Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space and the department of Natural Resources and the Environment and colleagues have discovered that, of the total amount of sunlight that falls on forests, the fraction that gets reflected back to space is directly related to levels of nitrogen in their foliage.
The Tata Interactive Learning Disability Forum Promotes Special Deeds For Special Needs

The Tata Interactive Learning Disability Forum Promotes Special Deeds For Special Needs

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

MUMBAI, India, November 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Global learning solutions provider, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) will host their third annual conference on learning disability - the Tata Interactive Learning Disability Forum (TLDF) - on November 29th in Mumbai and December 2nd, 2008 in Kolkata.

Tata Interactive Systems has played an active role in the remediation of learning disability (LD) since 2001 and, in association with the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General (LTMG) Hospital - which houses the first LD certification clinic in Maharashtra, India - has hosted the annual TLDF conferences since 2006, with national and international medical experts and educators, and state government representatives, among others, from the field of LD.

Europe Is Turning Into A Continent Of Content-Craving 'Connect-Aholics' - Study

Europe Is Turning Into A Continent Of Content-Craving 'Connect-Aholics' - Study

Nov 17 2008 | comment(s)

Across Europe, we are transforming into a continent of content-craving 'connect-aholics', according to the findings of the AMD European Connectivity Study of over 5,000 online respondents. Sponsored by AMD, in conjunction with independent research company, YouGov, 77% of respondents said they could not live without daily access to the internet.

This was higher than any other item including access to a car (54%) and to a washing machine (61%).