Science Education & Policy

LUGANO, Switzerland, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- - Award and Lecture Mark Anniversary of Monoclonal Antibodies Today, physicians and patient group representatives from around the world celebrated the presentation of the San Salvatore Foundation award for outstanding achievement in the field of malignant lymphoma and the Henry Kaplan Memorial Lecture at the 10th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma (ICML) in Lugano, Switzerland. Previous recipients of the award joined this year's winner, Professor Bertrand Coiffier, for a special event to reflect on the progress that has been made in the…

Traditional attitudes of masculinity, such as physical toughness and personal sacrifice, are valued in Mexican culture. A University of Missouri researcher found that Mexican-American men, as a group, are more likely to endorse traditional 'macho man' attitudes than European-American or black men. Certain factors influenced this attitude, including socioeconomic status (SES). The higher the SES, the greater the likihood that Mexican-American men held tightly to traditional masculine roles, even at the expense of emotional pressure. According to the study, Mexican-American men who embraced…

UTRECHT, The Netherlands, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Utrecht (Gemeente Utrecht) deployed Finjan's award winning Secure Web Gateway to secure its infrastructure and data and to ensure the availability, integrity and confidentiality of its communications. Utrecht is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands with a population of close to 300,000 citizens. The City's 4,000 users are divided into different user groups, depending on their particular responsibilities and department. Departments include public services such as the Fire Department (Brandweer), Municipal Healthcare Services (…

Acts of piracy at sea are on the rise but there is little evidence to support concerns from some governments and international organizations that pirates and terrorists are beginning to collude with one another, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today. Piracy - boarding a ship to commit theft or another crime - totaled 2,463 actual or attempted incidents between 2000 and 2006, according to the report. The overall problem is almost certainly even greater than the figures suggest as researchers suspect nearly half of all piracy attacks are not reported, usually because of fears about…

President Bush is having a tough 2008 but one group in Europe thinks the USA is the model of conservation when it comes to Cormorant management. The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) is regarded by fishermen in Europe as the "black plague" that steal their fish and eat them in front of their eyes, while conservationists celebrate the increase in the number of cormorants as proof of the fact that the conservation measures of recent decades have been successful. The Cormorant breeds in the North and the Baltic Sea area but winters in the proximity of the Mediterranean - therefore it is an…

ATLANTA, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- - New Members Join Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis, Former McDonald's Executive Bill Lamar and Recording Industry Pioneer Clarence Avant in Consumer Empowerment Coalition The Alliance for Digital Equality held its Mid-Year Board Meeting in Atlanta, May 30-31, 2008 and Chairman Julius H. Hollis and The Board of Directors of The Alliance for Digital Equality today announced the appointment of two new Board members -- Harold Henderson and Brian Bradford. The Alliance, an Atlanta, Georgia-based national non-profit organization, is currently engaged in the…

LONDON, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- - Dr Ian Gibson MP Hosts House of Commons Reception for All Party Parliamentary Writers Group - 2 June 2008 Dr Gibson hosted a reception on the House of Commons Terrace last night attended by Members of both Houses who had the opportunity to meet some of the nation's best known writers. "It is vital that we engage the widest possible parliamentary community with the nation's writers to discuss the key issues around their rights at this time," said Dr Gibson. "Writers are eagerly embracing a new world where their work can be distributed to a global audience via…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- - 115 Embassies and Consulates in 95 Countries Unite Under Verizon Private IP The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has chosen Verizon Business to consolidate its global communications over a single IP network. Through its fully managed Verizon Private IP solution, the company will provide a secure, centralised communications infrastructure for the ministry's employees around the world, helping to reduce administration and provide cost efficiencies. The ministry has also deployed video conferencing over the network, enabling employees to…

As I wrote a few days ago, if we agree that the nature of science is along the lines I have described, next we need to ask why it is so. Platt, in his classic 1964 article on strong inference, briefly mentions a number of answers, which he dismisses without discussion, but that I think are actually a large part of the reason "hard" and "soft" sciences appear to be so different. These alternative hypotheses for why a given science may behave “softly” include, as Platt puts it, “the tractability of the subject, or the quality of education of the men [sic] drawn into it, or the size of…

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Advanced Wound Management Division of Smith & Nephew (LSE: SN; NYSE: SNN) announced today that its negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) products will be available in nine of the ten designated metropolitan areas included in the first phase of the competitive bidding program administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the U.S. The program, which is scheduled to take effect in July 2008, was established, in part, to ensure that Medicare patients have access to quality homecare products and services and that…