Science Education & Policy

PHILADELPHIA, May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- - NiQuitin 4 mg lozenge helps reverse symptoms associated with nicotine withdrawal including difficulty concentrating, attention deficit, memory deficit and selective attention deficit The United States' Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced yesterday that it has removed a prescription anti-smoking pill from their approved list of safe medications for pilots and air-traffic controllers. This announcement followed a new analysis of adverse event data from the non-profit Institute for Safe Medication Practices which linked the medication to mental…

Video games that energize players and induce a positive mood could also enhance creativity, according to media researchers. However, the study also finds that players who were not highly energized and had a negative mood, registered the highest creativity. "You need defocused attention for being creative," said S. Shyam Sundar, professor of film, video and media studies at Penn State. "When you have low arousal and are negative, you tend to focus on detail and become more analytical." Sundar and Elizabeth Hutton, a Penn State graduate student, are trying to understand the value of video games…

NEW YORK, May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- - Global Identity Experts to Evaluate Established and Emerging Enterprise, Web 2.0 and Multi-Protocol IDDY Award Nominations Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more trust-worthy internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced the judging panel for the 2008 IDDY (IDentity Deployment of the Year) Awards. This year judges will be evaluating nominations in three categories: a Liberty-based deployment, a Liberty-based emerging application and a new multi-protocol application category. The call for…

NEW YORK, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- - 'Sense and Sustainability: What Strategies Will Really Work to Create a New Energy Future?' Platts, a leading global provider of energy and commodities information and a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), today announced that Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, principal of the Albright Group, former U.S. Secretary of State and distinguished American diplomat, will be a featured speaker at its second annual Platts Lecture on December 3, 2008 at Deutsche Bank, 60 Wall Street in New York City. As the world struggles with surging population, the rise of…

Some people interested in mathematics have curiosity about how mathematics is used in finance, and perhaps even have an eye toward a career in quantitative finance. Others are already pursuing a career in finance and the capital markets, and have an interest in learning more of the underlying mathematics. All around the world Financial Mathematics and Financial Engineering programs are appearing, filling a growing educational need, and the umbrella organization for these programs is the International Association of Financial Engineers (http://www.iafe.org/home.php). The proliferation of…

MANCHESTER, England, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The launch of The Co-operative Insurance Sexy Green Car Show at the Eden Project in Cornwall today, (22 May) will see leading eco-insurer urge the rest of the motor insurance industry to take action and give more consideration in the claims process to repairing rather than replacing plastic components such as bumpers and bonnets following an accident. By focussing more on the repair of parts, carbon emissions are reduced as less demand means a reduction in the amount of parts produced in factories, fewer parts are transported across the world and a…

WASHINGTON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) issued the following statement in response to President Bush's veto of the Farm Bill: The President's veto of the Farm Bill is an opportunity for Congress to reexamine the 54 cent per gallon secondary import tariff on ethanol. With gasoline and corn prices at record highs and the summer driving season right around the corner, this tariff prevents Americans from recognizing the price savings that increased ethanol imports would bring consumers. Greater utilization of sugarcane ethanol would…

It is no exaggeration to call evolution “the central concept of biology.” So why is the fact of evolution denied by half of our population? A new article in PLoS Biology by Michael Berkman, Julianna Pacheco, and Eric Plutzer suggests it might be on account of their lack of education at the high school level. Since only ~25% of the US population obtains a college degree, it is the duty of high school teachers to provide a proper scientific education to our citizens. Model high school curriculum guidelines provided by the National Science Teachers Association, the National Research Council…

YOKNEAM, Israel and PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pennsylvania, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- - The New Best Practice Statements Were Presented at the AUA Annual Meeting Being Held in Orlando, Florida Galil Medical, a global leader in cryotherapy, announced today that the American Urological Association has introduced clinical guidelines with best practice statements for prostate cryotherapy. The guidelines state that cryoablation is a treatment option for men with clinically confined prostate cancer of any grade and that salvage cryoablation is a treatment option in men who have failed radiation therapy.…

LONDON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Internet developments that brought us sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia are now set to revolutionise healthcare, according to a new research report from online news service and publisher, E-Health Insider. Titled 'Web 2.0 in the Health Sector: Industry Review with a UK perspective' the report concludes that new applications based on social health networks and content generated by health service users themselves - such as reviews of doctors and hospitals - will rapidly evolve to challenge existing healthcare systems and create new ways of delivering…