Science Education & Policy

SEATTLE, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- - WatchGuard Worldwide UTM Shipment Growth Leads Entire Industry with Record Setting Pace of 190 Percent for 2007; Leads with 196 Percent UTM Shipment Growth for Western Europe WatchGuard(R) Technologies, a global leader in extensible network security and connectivity solutions, today announced that it has been confirmed as the worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) shipment growth for 2007, leading the industry with a whopping 190.2 percent rate of growth. Additionally, the company was crowned as the leading UTM shipment growth leader for…

NEW YORK, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- - Largest electricity investment in Togo's history will double the Country's generating capacity ContourGlobal Togo, a subsidiary of international power company ContourGlobal, received approval today for US$209 million in financing and political risk insurance from the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) for the construction and operation of a power plant in Lome, Togo. ContourGlobal's Togo project is the largest electricity investment ever made in the Republic of Togo. The innovative "tri fuel" 100 MW project, expected…

LONDON, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite members across the NHS will today (Friday 18th July) send a strong message to government to say: "Cut my pay - No Way!" In a national day of protest NHS staff will be making clear their anger against the derisory three year pay offer of 7.99 per cent. This action will mark the start of the Unite campaign against the imposition of the pay deal, this includes the possibility of Unite balloting its members on industrial action. Union members are angry that the proposed three year award, worth 2.75 per cent in year one, 2.54 per cent in year two and 2.5 per…

LONDON, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Becoming a mum changes a woman's life irrevocably, and a new research report out today highlights a massive change which is often overlooked - how friendships alter to fit the new mum status. The Friendship Report, commissioned by the leading Child Trust Fund provider, The Children's Mutual (http://www.thechildrensmutual.co.uk), found that women with children make eight more lifetime friends as a direct result of becoming a parent. The report, conducted by the Consumer Analysis Group, found that if mums attended every parental group, from fertility clinic to…

NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- - Identity-Enabled Applications in the Healthcare, Financial Services, Telecom and Open Source Sectors Receive Identity Deployment of the Year Awards Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more trust-worthy internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced Aetna, Citi, Deutsche Telekom AG and UNINETT have won the 2008 IDDY (Identity Deployment of the Year) Award. This year the judging panel awarded IDDYs in three categories covering Liberty-based deployments, Liberty-based emerging applications and…

FRIMLEY, England, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- - New Report Highlights Dangerous Responses to Stress Among Employees UK workers are most likely to turn to alcohol, smoking and comfort eating to help them deal with the stress of their occupations, according to a new 'Stroke in Business' report* from The Stroke Association, in association with Siemens. The report highlights the high levels of stress felt in many industries and the often unhealthy ways in which workers respond, potentially leading to serious health problems including increased risk of stroke. The 'Stroke in Business report' calls…

LONDON, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- - Educational Service Uses Avoco's Secure2trust and Secure2email to Protect Student Academic Forms From Cyber-Predators and Other Threats The Christian Center for Learning Development is an educational service based in North Carolina, USA, specialising in the development of student inquiry skills though a program of strong mentoring. The center requires the use of academic forms which contain specific and personal details of students. The center has an obligation to guarantee the confidentiality of these forms as they contain student authored material and…

It's no secret that the Commonwealth Fund doesn't like private health care and their new national scorecard states that scores on access have declined significantly since the first national scorecard in 2006. Despite spending more on health care than any other industrialized nation, they state, the U.S. overall continues to fall far short on key indicators of health outcomes and quality, with particularly low scores on efficiency. In the report, Why Not The Best? Results From The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2008, their scorecard rates the US an average of 65 out of a…

There are currently great needs and great opportunities for improvement in post-secondary science education. As world education improves, we need to provide more students with complex understanding and problem solving skills in technical subjects to allow them to be responsible and successful citizens in modern society. Emerging research indicates that our colleges and universities are not achieving this. However, there are great opportunities to improve this situation using advances in the understanding of how people learn science and advances in educational technology. Students Are…

Of course the flip side, meaning the benefits of the sunk-cost fallacy, need to be addressed. One example can be found in a January 12, 2007 article in the “Freakonomics” section of the New York Times titled “What does Barack Obama Know about Behavioral Economics?” In the article, Obama is quoted as having said about sending more troops to Iraq as having used the notion of the fallacy. “And essentially the administration repeatedly has said: ‘We’re doubling down; we’re going to keep on going … because now we’ve got a lot in the pot and we can’t afford to lose what we put in the pot.” In…