LONDON, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Working Buildings 2008 - 8-9 October 2008 - Olympia, London

The organisers of the London-based built environment exhibition Working Buildings 2008, is searching for London's best office. The Office of the Year award will honour businesses within the capital for office innovation and excellence, with particular emphasis on energy and waste management. The award is a new addition to the Working Buildings Innovation Awards which takes place during Working Buildings 2008 at London Olympia from 8-9 October 2008.

READING, Pennsylvania, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

EnerSys (NYSE: ENS), the world's largest manufacturer, marketer and distributor of industrial batteries and Accumulateur Tunisie Assad SA ("Assad"), the market leader in automotive batteries in Tunisia and North Africa, announced today the formation of a new joint venture company for the production and sale of industrial batteries. The new company, EnerSys-Assad SARL, will be 51% owned by EnerSys and 49% by Assad.

PARIS and CUPERTINO, California, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Investments From Techfund and Credit Agricole Private Equity Validates Miyowa's Leadership in the Mobile Applications Market and Aids in Expansion to the U.S. and Singapore

We read (and write here) a lot about gender issues in the scientific arena but usually topics are related to science education and promoting greater equality of numbers at the higher levels. There are a number of studies detailing the issues women face in a predominantly male science world but a University of Missouri religion professor has found that if the researcher is a male fieldworker studying women, the situation can be just as challenging.

His conclusions about male researchers studying female subjects are based on his extensive observations of the Diola (pronounced joe-la) people. Robert M. Baum, professor of religious studies in the College of Arts and Science has been traveling to southwestern Senegal on the African continent and conducting field research among the Diola communities, approximately 600,000 people, for more than 30 years. The modern Diola are primarily rice farmers.

Initially, Baum's work focused on pre-colonial Diola religious history during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, a period when there were male prophets. Later in his research, Baum studied the work and influence of Diola female prophets who began appearing after the French and Portuguese conquest of Diola lands in the late 1800s.

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

Pinnacle Biologics, a private, full service pharmaceutical and biotech solutions company, today announced that it has entered into a preferred stock purchase transaction with MedImmune, LLC, pursuant to which MedImmune has acquired certain unspecified number of preferred stock shares of Pinnacle Biologics, Inc. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Pinnacle Biologics owns the marketing and distribution rights to MedImmune's Ethyol(R), 50 mg/ml, powder for solution for infusion in Western Europe, Turkey and Israel.

"This is a highpoint for Pinnacle, as it signifies an additional milestone for our company," said Guillermo Herrera, Chairman of the Board of Pinnacle Biologics.

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PRINCETON, New Jersey, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

Impliant, Inc., a developer of novel spine arthroplasty alternatives to fusion surgery, today announced that it has resumed European clinical activities on its TOPS(TM) System, a Total Posterior Arthroplasty device designed to treat spinal stenosis with or without facet arthrosis and spondylolisthesis. The procedure was performed by the Lead Clinician of the London Spine Clinic, Mr. John C. Sutcliffe, MB ChB, FRCS.

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Pheromones are molecules that an organism releases to trigger a specific behavior in other members of its species. Insects make wide use of pheromones to attract mates, signal the location of food, warn of attackers and provide other signals.

It has been commonly regarded as a good sign that the nation's homocide rate has remained flat but the big picture obscures a disturbing fact, say researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Namely that between 1999 and 2005, homicide involving firearms increased 31 percent among black men ages 25 to 44 and 12 percent among white men of the same age.

For the study, Susan Baker, MPH, co-author of the study and a professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Injury Research and Policy, and her colleagues Daniel Webster and Gouqing Hu, the study's lead author, analyzed data from WISQARS™ (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System), which includes information on injury-related deaths and mortality rates per 100,000 population from 1981-2005. Mortality data by urbanization level was obtained through the Wonder System at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

LONDON, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- FAO: Tunbridge Wells Media

Unite will today (Thursday 26th June) leaflet staff outside AXA PPP in Tunbridge Wells. This is in reaction to the refusal by management to allow the trade union into the site.

The union has found that staff receive poorer pay in comparison to their colleagues in other AXA UK companies. The refusal of local management to allow union officials access to talk to employees on site about the benefits of union membership means that Unite has no option but to leaflet staff from outside the premises.