MADRID, August 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- The "Awareness Campaign" Visualises Daily Challenges Faced by People With Parkinson's as Revealed by New European Research

The European Parkinson's Disease Association (EPDA) today urged European decision makers and politicians to end inequalities in care and treatment access for people with Parkinson's disease.

The plea was made during the launch of EPDA's latest campaign, 'Parkinson's is visible, make it livable', intended to visualise the daily challenges faced by those with Parkinson's, increase people's knowledge and understanding of the disease and influence decision makers.

FINDLAY, Ohio and NUREMBERG, Germany, August 25 /PRNewswire/ -- FLABEG, global leader in high-tech glass and mirror applications, is to establish production capacity for high-precision parabolic mirrors which are used to help generate electricity at large-scale solar power plants. The new 209,000-square-foot manufacturing facility will be build in the Clinton Commerce Park near Pittsburgh International Airport. Pennsylvania's Gov. Ed Rendell delivered a US$9 million grant to help pay for the US$30 million project. The company expects to generate as many as 300 jobs in the facility. It will be the company's first US facility of this type. FLABEG's other facility in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, manufactures mirror glass for automobiles.

OAK BROOK, Illinois and LONDON, August 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Increasingly, Companies are Moving Employees from Emerging Markets to Developed Countries to Gain Corporate Knowledge While at the Same Time, to Cut Costs

Emerging markets are increasingly presenting significant challenges for high-tech companies when it comes to relocating employees, according to a survey by GMAC Global Relocation Services (http://www.gmacglobalrelocation.com) and the Centre for Performance-Led HR at Lancaster University Management School in the United Kingdom.

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HAMBURG, Germany, August 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Cremer Care Ensures European Distribution-Rights for the Cosmetics Raw Materials Organic Glycerine and Soap-Noodles

Since July, 1st, 2008 Cremer Care has become the exclusive distributor of organic products from the renowned Daabon group of Colombia for the European cosmetics market. A long tradition in bio-production and the special social commitment of the South-American producer fits perfectly with the principles of the North German supplier of cosmetics ingredients - expressed in Cremer Care's motto 'Inspired By Nature'.

Is sleep essential? The answer seems obvious, since we all have to do it, but to a sleep scientist, the question of what constitutes sleep is so complex that scientists are still trying to define the essential function of something we do every night.

The search for the core function of sleep can seem as elusive as the search for the mythological phoenix, says Chiara Cirelli, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison.

Some scientists argue that sleep is merely a way to impose a quiet, immobile state (rest), and isn't important by itself in mammals and birds. This is the so-called "null hypothesis," and Cirelli and co-author Giulio Tononi reject it.

When it comes to predicting the rate of inflation, consumers know what they spend and that helps them be as accurate as professional economists, according to research by a Kansas State University professor.

Lloyd B. Thomas, head of the department of economics, says that household surveys predict the inflation rate fairly accurately. While pros employ statistics like the unemployment rate, money supply growth and exchange rate changes, consumers participating in surveys are more likely to think about how much they spent at the grocery store that week.

"Surprisingly, the median household is just as good as the average professional economist," said Thomas. "I'm a little surprised because economists are using sophisticated models. But the consumers know what's happening with milk prices."

Overton's Rule says that the easier it is for a chemical to dissolve in a lipid (fat) the easier and faster it will be transported into a cell. The Rule was first outlined in the 1890s by Ernst Overton of the University of Zürich. He declared that substances that dissolve in lipids pass more easily into a cell than those that dissolve in water. He then set forth an equation that predicted how fast that diffusion would happen.

One of the key parameters in that equation is K which defines the lipophilicity (oil-liking nature) of the chemical. The higher the value of K, the faster the predicted cell permeation rate. For over a century, medicinal chemists have used this relationship to shape their studies and clinical trials.

A new study by research chemists at the University of Warwick has challenged that century old rule of pharmacology that defined how quickly key chemicals can pass across cell walls. The new observations of the Warwick researchers suggest that the real transport rates could be up to a hundred times slower than predicted by the century old Overton's Rule. This could have major implications for the development and testing of many future drugs.

HOUSTON, August 25 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (Amex: END) (LSE: ENDV) announced today that Barry J. Galt, a member of the board of directors, died on August 22, 2008. Galt served as a director of the corporation since 2004 when Endeavour was first established as a North Sea-focused oil and gas exploration and production company.

The perfect clean, renewable energy will utilize the sun's light energy for efficient conversion into fuels and electric power and so attention is focusing on one of the most ancient groups of organism, the cyanobacteria.

3.7 billion years ago photosynthesis evolved in cyanobacteria that used water molecules as a source of electrons to transport energy derived from sunlight, while converting carbon dioxide into oxygen. The light harvesting systems gave the bacteria their blue ("cyano") color, and paved the way for plants to evolve by "kidnapping" bacteria to provide their photosynthetic engines, and for animals by liberating oxygen for them to breathe, by splitting water molecules.

Humans are only now coming close to tweaking the photosynthetic reactions of cyanobacteria to produce fuels we want such as hydrogen, alcohols or even hydrocarbons, rather than carbohydrates.