Science Education & Policy

LONDON, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- - The Competition Provides a Forum Where Electronic Design Engineers and Students can Design Products That are Environmentally Friendly Using Electronic Components. Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), the leading multi-channel, high service distributor supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals globally, today announced the selection of the expert judging panel for the international design competition, 'Live EDGE' - Electronic Design for the Global Environment. This year's esteemed and accomplished 2008 Live EDGE competition panel of judges to…

ROME, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Italian Institute for Privacy (www.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it/en/), a public policy think tank focused on improving privacy protection in the digital age urges the European Parliament to enhance protection of personal privacy online for all Europeans. Today, the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament will vote on a proposal from the European Commission that aims to strengthen consumer data protection online in the European Union. "The European Parliament must take greater steps to protect the personal data of Europeans," said Luca Bolognini,…

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- diaDexus, Inc. today announced the release of a supplement to The American Journal of Cardiology, Vol. 101, No 12A June 16, 2008 that includes an expert consensus panel recommendation to include testing for lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2), a vascular-specific inflammatory marker, as an adjunct to traditional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment. These recommendations are consistent with and build on the Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines (ATP III) for the use of inflammatory markers in patients at moderate…

LONDON, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite, the UK's largest trade union, has criticised the Government for reneging on a proposal that would have given workers the right to paid time off for training. Under new proposals outlined last week, from 2010, employees will be entitled to request time off work for training after six months in a job. However, Skills Minister David Lammy has stated that employers would not be obliged to pay an employee's salary while they were undertaking training, neither would they be obliged to organise or pay for the training. Commenting on the minister's statement…

COPENHAGEN and TALLINN, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- - European Health Ministers Meet to Focus on Link Between Health and Economic Success. New Charter on Health Systems Expected to be Signed It has long been accepted that greater wealth allows people to make better health choices, but does the reverse apply? Does greater health lead to greater wealth, both on a personal and a national level? This week (25-27 June), ministers of health, international experts, and over 500 delegates from the 53 countries (1) of the WHO European Region will meet in Tallinn - at the WHO European Ministerial…

LONDON, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to today's announcement of a Healthcare Commission-regulated website selling contraceptive pills online, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) recognises that there are some benefits to such a service. When used safely and appropriately, online access to medicines and healthcare advice can offer benefits to patients in terms of convenience and accessibility, especially for people who are busy and can not get to the doctor. However, it is important that patients undergo necessary health checks, such as blood pressure monitoring…

ORLANDO, Florida and CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- - Application Performance Management; Security and Compliance; WAN Management; CMDB Discovery; and Data Center Consolidation and Migration Revealed as the Most Pressing Initiatives for IT Executives in 2008; Checklists Provide Overview of Key Capabilities VPs Need to Address Each Initiative - CISCO LIVE 2008 -- Mazu Networks, the leading provider of behavior-based, enterprise-class performance and availability solutions, today published VP Checklists to provide an overview of the key capabilities teams need to address the…

LONDON, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to the recent statement from the CBI that Government plans for academic diplomas in England are 'an unnecessary distraction' The Work Foundation argues that far from being a distraction, diplomas should eventually replace GCSE's and A levels as the major route into employment, further and higher education. As Nick Isles, Director of Advocacy at The Work Foundation says, "The Government missed a trick in 2005 in not implementing the recommendations of the Tomlinson review of the 14-19 curriculum. Tomlinson's recommendations had at their heart a new…

SAN DIEGO, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- - Consortium Releases CARML (Client Attribute Requirements Markup Language) and Privacy Constraints Draft Specifications to Protect Personally Identifiable Information Across Applications and Networks Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more trust-worthy internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced the first public release of components of the Liberty Identity Governance Framework. Developed with wide cross-industry support, the Liberty Identity Governance Framework (IGF) is the industry's…

SAN DIEGO, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- - Framework Drives Trust Across Identity-Enabled Applications Based on Standardized and Certified Identity Assurance Levels Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more trust-worthy internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced the first public release of the protocol independent Liberty Identity Assurance Framework (IAF). The IAF details four identity assurance levels to ease and speed the process of linking trusted identity-enabled enterprise, social networking and Web 2.0 applications together…