MAARSSEN, Netherlands, July 24 /PRNewswire/ --

The global pharma ingredients and services community's largest annual gathering, CPhI Worldwide, returns this year to Frankfurt on Tuesday 30 September - Thursday 2 October.

With the integrated ICSE contract services and P-MEC machinery and equipment events, the exhibitions will be conveniently located in the adjoining Messe Halls 3, 4, 5 and 6. Frankfurt has a long association with the events and 2008 marks the fifth time that the city hosts CPhI.

The industry has seen major growth since the event was last here in 2003. Five years ago there were 1,200 exhibitors: this year will see close to 1,800. The 2003 attendee total of just over 16,000 will likely be at least 50% up, at 24,000 or more for 2008.

LONDON, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- OCADO, the independent online grocer, has triumphed in a national awards scheme to find the greenest retailers in Britain.

The OLGAs (Online Green Awards) have recognised Ocado, which processes over 12,000 customer orders every day, for its commitment to environmentally sustainable retailing and inherently green approach to doing business. Ocado won the 'Large Retailer' accolade beating competition from Ebay, easyJet, Marks & Spencer, Kelkoo and Ebuyer.

A panel of environmental experts from the OLGAs drew up a shortlist of the six firms and then asked the public to select the most impressive green online retailer by voting on msn.com.

ZURICH, Switzerland, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Solianis' new patents cover the basic technology to monitor changes in the hydration of skin at different depths and to evaluate the impact of cosmetic products: "Device and method for determining at least one characterizing parameter of multilayer body tissue" and "Method and device for characterizing the effect of a skin treatment agent on skin."

This novel technology has been developed on the basis of the Solianis' multisensor approach: it measures various parameters of human skin, e.g. the parameter moisture in different skin depths.

BRISTOL, England, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Austin Adams, former CIO for JPMorgan Chase, spent most of his 35-year career in banking overseeing technology and operations. In a period of dramatic consolidation, he was involved in more than 90 mergers and responsible for almost 28,000 employees and a multi-billion dollar budget.

On Wednesday 20 August, the man Business 2.0 magazine called "one of the 16 most influential technology people in the world" will be sharing his accumulated knowledge with a host of senior financial executives in a unique, online and interactive interview on MeettheBoss.com, the next generation business-networking tool dedicated to finance.

Surcharges. those annoying fees like shipping and handling, have been around since the advent of catalogs and remain in the days of the Internet. Everyone hates them but how many of us base our purchasing decision on these bothersome fees?

Quite a lot, it seems. And not just on Ebay, where sellers make a habit of tacking on outrageous handling charges, but in all aspects of commerce. Basically, the less trustworthy the seller, the more inclined a buyer will balk at surcharges.

The new research published in The Journal of Consumer Research was conducted by Amar Cheema, Ph.D., assistant professor of marketing at Washington University in St. Louis, and he suggests that consumers pay more attention to surcharges overall than previously thought.

NEW YORK, July 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- EU-5 mobile music retail revenues to exceed US$1.4 billion in 2012

Europe's mobile music scene is more advanced than that in the US. While the UK is the biggest individual mobile music market in the EU-5, the other countries -- France, Germany, Italy and Spain -- are reporting sharp growth as well. eMarketer predicts that mobile music retail revenues in the EU-5 will reach over US$1.4 billion by 2012, up from US$267 million in 2007. eMarketer expects ad-supported mobile music in the EU-5 to reach US$170 million in 2012, up from US$4.6 million in 2007.

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CD4+ T lymphocytes, or simply CD4 T cells, are the "brains" of the immune system, coordinating its activity when the body comes under attack. They are also the cells that are attacked by HIV, the devastating virus that causes AIDS and has infected roughly 40 million people worldwide. The virus slowly eats away at CD4 T cells, weakening the immune system.

But the immune systems of HIV/AIDS patients face another enemy as well — stress, which can accelerate CD4 T cell declines. Now, researchers at UCLA report that the practice of mindfulness meditation stopped the decline of CD4 T cells in HIV-positive patients suffering from stress, slowing the progression of the disease. The study was just published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.

LONDON, July 24 /PRNewswire/ --

Nearly half of lazy UK fellas believe they come up with their greatest ideas whilst resting on their mattress, whilst 1 in 10 think they find their most useful inspiration on the loo.

The poll also found Britons picked the internet (36%) as the greatest invention or discovery in the world, followed by antibiotics (27%) and computers (20%).

Themis was the blindfolded Greek goddess of order and justice. It's also a NASA-funded mission which stands for Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms - and, using it, UCLA space scientists and colleagues have identified the mechanism that triggers substorms in space; wreaks havoc on satellites, power grids and communications systems; and leads to the explosive release of energy that causes the spectacular brightening of the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights.

For 30 years, there have been two competing theories to explain the onset of these substorms, which are energy releases in the Earth's magnetosphere, said Vassilis Angelopoulos, a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciences and principal investigator of THEMIS.