Results from a recent survey conducted by a University of Missouri professor reveal that the U.S. public prefers to act locally and nationally on environmental issues and that may be why appeals to global warming are not more successful.

“The survey’s core result is that people care about their communities and express the desire to see government action taken toward local and national issues,” said David Konisky, a policy research scholar with the Institute of Public Policy. “People are hesitant to support efforts concerning global issues even though they believe that environmental quality is poorer at the global level than at the local and national level. This is surprising given the media attention that global warming has recently received and reflects the division of opinion about the severity of climate change.”

MUMBAI, India, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Portal Enhances Service for Global Business Process Outsourcing Provider

Intelenet Global Services, a leading provider of business process outsourcing services, has selected Verizon Business to develop, host and manage a secure portal for the exchange of information with clients, partners and vendors. The objective is to enhance the company's collaborative capabilities and improve business transaction efficiency.

Intelenet provides contact-center, finance, accounting and transaction processing services to Fortune 500 companies in the financial services, retail, insurance, telecom, manufacturing, travel and hospitality industries. The India-based company employs more than 25,000 people at 24 locations globally.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Third Annual Competition held at Cannes Lions 2008 55th International Advertising Festival

The Future Lions global student advertising competition (www.futurelions.com), hosted by AKQA in collaboration with the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, is calling for entries in its 2008 competition.

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Tiny prehistoric bones found on an Australian farm have been directly linked to a strange and secretive little animal that lives today in the southern rainforests of South America.

The mystery? They are separated by an ocean and millions of years.

The fossilised ankle and ear bones are those of Australia's earliest known marsupial, Djarthia, a primitive mouse-like creature that lived 55 million years ago. It is a kind of Australian Eve, possibly the mother of all the continent's unusual pouched mammals, such as kangaroos, koalas, possums and wombats.

But a new study has confirmed that Djarthia is also a primitive relative of the small marsupial known as the Monito del Monte – or "little mountain monkey" – from the dense humid forests of Chile and Argentina.

LONDON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ --

Unite, the UK's largest trade union, is calling on the government and the UK's nuclear regulator to licence global designs for the new generation of UK power stations.

Unite, which has more than 26,000 energy sector members, says that a standard design is vital to encourage the largest number of bids for the new build nuclear contracts and to give UK industry the opportunity to supply the construction and manufacturing requirements.

The union says that as well as securing thousands of existing jobs, 10,000 additional jobs could be created if the UK regulator licence designs that could be used throughout the world.

A new study reviewing 75 group-randomized cancer trials over a five-year stretch shows that fewer than half of those studies used appropriate statistical methods to analyze the results. The review suggests that some trials may have reported that interventions to prevent disease or reduce cancer risks were effective when in fact they might not have been.

More than a third of the trials contained statistical analyses that the reviewers considered inappropriate to assess the effects of an intervention being studied. And 88 percent of those studies reported statistically significant intervention effects that, because of analysis flaws, could be misleading to scientists and policymakers, the review authors say.

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Institutional Identification System is Positioned to Become the Industry Standard

Thomson Scientific, a leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, and Ringgold, Inc. have announced the availability of Journal Analysis Database Expanded (JADE), which allows users to see a detailed analysis of authors and subscribers of a journal, or set of journals, using precisely defined definitions of the "publishing institutions" to which those authors and subscribers belong.

LONDON, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Valentine's Day Drives Traffic to Flowers, Gifts & Greetings Sites

- New Firefox Browser Helps Mozilla Organisation Grow to More than 3 Million Visitors

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its February rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties and site categories in the U.K. based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service.

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Everyone experiences anxiety from time to time – something specific, like going down into a dark cellar where you know the Book of the Dead is waiting,or, in a more general sense, trepidation about what the future holds. Some people are gripped by powerful fears when confronted by quite normal everyday situations. For example, sufferers of agoraphobia frequently have panic attacks when caught up in a crowd.

Their blood 'curdles' or 'freezes in their veins' in a very real way, saya a Bonn-based research team, and it leads to increased risk of thrombosis or heart attack

The symptoms can be dramatic: palpitations, sweating, shaking, blind panic or fainting – even leading to death. Another anxiety disorder frequently encountered can be described as social phobia. Those affected fear above all situations in which they become the centre of attention in a group. They begin to stutter or turn red. In order not to avoid embarrassment, social phobia sufferers may become recluses, shying away from human contact and staying at home.