Science Education & Policy

PARIS, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- - Students address environmental sustainability with innovative technology; torch passes to Egypt for Imagine Cup 2009. Microsoft Corp today announced the winners of Imagine Cup 2008 at the Musée du Louvre, after a week of intense competition among finalists chosen from a pool of more than 200,000 students from over 100 countries and regions. Celebrating first place, Australia's Team SOAK won the worldwide Software Design invitational, Singapore's Team Trail Blazers won the Embedded Development invitational, and Brazil's Mother Gaia Studio won the Game…

BASEL, Switzerland, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- With their nine-month extra-occupational intensive course in "Business Administration" the Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut und Seminar Basel (http://www.business-education.ch) addresses managers and self-employed professionals who require the management tools of Business Administration for the advancement of their careers. The start of the winter term for this flexibly structured Distance Learning Course is on 15 October 2008. According to Dr. Ralf Andreas Thoma, Director of Studies, "Nowadays receiving a consolidated, practice-oriented education…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Centrify Corporation, a leading provider of Microsoft Active Directory-based auditing, access control and identity management solutions for non-Microsoft platforms, today announced that Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) has selected Centrify DirectControl for a pilot deployment to optimize the efficiency and manageability of its UNIX- and Linux-based computing systems. Using Centrify DirectControl, SG CIB will be able to further optimize its IT management control by leveraging its existing, robust Microsoft Active…

Ground cover may be one workable method to reduce the effects of erosion that future biomass harvests are predicted to bring. Iowa State University researchers are looking at ways to use ground cover, a living grass planted between the rows of corn, in production farming. Government subsidies and mandated minimum usage for ethanol has the industry looking beyond the kernel to the entire corn plant for more fuel because corn is the source of most of the United States' ethanol so turning corn stalks and leaves into ethanol is the target of much research. The U.S. Department of Agriculture…

UPPSALA, Sweden, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- RADI Medical Systems today announced improvements to their latest generation pressure sensing guide wire, PressureWire(R) Certus, which will begin shipments immediately. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080708/311790 ) The latest generation of the PressureWire(R) Certus features a new ergonomically designed proximal connector which provides three key advantages for physicians. The new large entry funnel allows for fast and easy wire reconnection into the proximal connector, while also exhibiting less insertion friction. In addition, the…

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- - CSC and LOMA Extend Relationship to Jointly Promote Insurance/Financial Services Education in Region CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced that LOMA, a leading trade association in the international insurance and financial services industry, has selected CSC to conduct LOMA's industry-specific examinations in India. The offering is part of a collaborative effort between the organizations to promote insurance and financial services education in the country, and extends CSC's longstanding relationship with LOMA in the U.S. CSC is the only company in…

CALGARY, Alberta, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Calgary will play host for the second year to the Oil Sands and Heavy Oil Technologies Conference & Exhibition, July 15-17 at the Calgary, TELUS Convention Centre. The inaugural show, held in July 2007 in Calgary, drew over 880 oil sands executives and senior personnel to a two day conference along with over fifty exhibitors. Len Webber, Parliamentary Assistant of Energy, Alberta, will address the second annual Oil Sands and Heavy Oil Technologies Conference & Exhibition July 16 at the Calgary TELUS Convention Centre. He will speak on the…

BALTIMORE, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Physicians Practice, America's Leading Practice Management Journal today announced the promotions of Pamela L. Moore, Ph.D to editorial director, Steven Gottshall to associate publisher, and Eric Temple-Morris to associate publisher. The promotions are reflective of the company's overall strategy for the continued growth of brand awareness, expansion into new physician focused markets and circulation growth. Pamela L. Moore, Ph.D, formerly senior editor of practice management, who sets the editorial direction and is a widely recognized speaker at industry…

Violence between partners, friends and acquaintances appears prevalent both before and during college, according to results of a survey of students at three urban college campuses published in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The transition from living at home to attending college may increase adolescents' vulnerability to relationship violence, according to background information in the article. Factors associated with this risk include less parental monitoring and support, isolation in an unknown environment and a strong desire for peer acceptance that can…

Paying rural landowners in Oregon's Willamette Basin to protect at-risk animals won't necessarily mean that their newly conserved trees and plants will absorb more carbon from the atmosphere and vice versa, a new study has found. The study, to be published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analyzed hypothetical payments that were given to landowners to voluntarily take their acreage out of production for conservation. Scenarios conserving different types of land were also developed. The study then examined the relationship between the absorption of carbon, a…