Science Education & Policy

An international collaboration is creating an innovative "freely-accessible, high resolution" digital interactive archive of William Shakespeare's pre-1641 quartos; living artifacts that tell the story of how Shakespeare's Hamlet, Henry V, King Lear, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet, to name just a few, first circulated. The University of Maryland's Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Director Neil Fraistat says, "The quartos themselves offer crucial evidence about what actually was performed" by Shakespeare's troupe. Because Shakespeare himself did not authorize…

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- - Agreement with Medca Japan extends network of CAP-certified laboratories Quintiles Transnational Corp. today announced an agreement with Medca Japan to provide central laboratory services, further extending the Quintiles global network of laboratories certified by the College of American Pathologists (CAP). Quintiles will have its own staff at the CAP-certified Medca Japan laboratory in Saitama, a city in the Greater Tokyo area. The lab will support clinical trials in Japan. "Recent changes in legislation are allowing…

WASHINGTON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Academic health center leaders from around the world will be taking a Voyage of Discovery addressing the visions, growth, and strategic partnerships of academic health centers in a global environment and speaking to vital infrastructure issues that impact education, research, and patient care innovations at the 2008 International Forum of the Association of Academic Health Centers. WHO: THE NEED TO GO GLOBAL: Victor J. Dzau, MD, Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University, and President and CEO, Duke University Health System IN SEARCH OF THE U.S. MODEL…

LONDON, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- FIS Software is pleased to announce that Columbian Financial Group (CFG) in Binghamton, NY has selected ALIS as its strategic policy administration platform. CFG will utilise ALIS to support its new business initiatives as well as its in-force policies. ALIS will administer the insurer's complete product offering including participating and non-participating whole life, pre-need, final expense, universal life, annuities and worksite. "Following a very thorough system evaluation that included the highest rated policy administration systems on the market today…

Results from a recent survey conducted by a University of Missouri professor reveal that the U.S. public prefers to act locally and nationally on environmental issues and that may be why appeals to global warming are not more successful. “The survey’s core result is that people care about their communities and express the desire to see government action taken toward local and national issues,” said David Konisky, a policy research scholar with the Institute of Public Policy. “People are hesitant to support efforts concerning global issues even though they believe that environmental quality…

New research suggests political freedom and geographic factors contribute significantly to causes of terrorism, challenging the common view that terrorism is rooted in poverty. "There is no significant relationship between a country's wealth and level of terrorism once other factors like the country's level of political freedom are taken into account," says Alberto Abadie, public policy professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Abadie's review of the World Market Research Centre's Global Terrorism Index found no clear correlation between terrorism and poverty. Abadie's…

LOS ANGELES, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - Musician Latest to Join Chorus Expressing Support for Presidential Hopeful Barack Obama with New Web Site www.ObamaRocks08.com and Free Music Download "Obama, Yes We Can" Andy Fraser, legendary musician, songwriter and activist best known for penning the rock anthem "All Right Now" for the 70s British Rock Band, Free, and Robert Palmer's mega-hit "Every Kinda People" has officially come out to support Senator Barack Obama's run for President in song. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080325/CLTU057 ) "Like other citizens of the world, I am…

A new study reviewing 75 group-randomized cancer trials over a five-year stretch shows that fewer than half of those studies used appropriate statistical methods to analyze the results. The review suggests that some trials may have reported that interventions to prevent disease or reduce cancer risks were effective when in fact they might not have been. More than a third of the trials contained statistical analyses that the reviewers considered inappropriate to assess the effects of an intervention being studied. And 88 percent of those studies reported statistically significant intervention…

LOS ANGELES, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - Musician Latest to Join Chorus Expressing Support for Presidential Hopeful Barack Obama with New Web Site www.ObamaRocks08.com and Free Music Download "Obama, Yes We Can" Andy Fraser, legendary musician, songwriter and activist best known for penning the rock anthem "All Right Now" for the 70s British Rock Band, Free, and Robert Palmer's mega-hit "Every Kinda People" has officially come out to support Senator Barack Obama's run for President in song. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080325/CLTU057 ) "Like other citizens of the world, I am…

WAYNE, Pennsylvania and LONDON, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - Global Trade Routing and Connectivity Solutions Support Buy-Side and Sell-Side Automation Initiatives SunGard (http://www.sungard.com) today announced that the SunGard Transaction Network's (STN's) trading and connectivity solutions are now available to corporate treasurers and asset managers in the United Kingdom, following STN's recent approval by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). As an authorized U.K. broker, STN will exercise passporting rights, allowing the company to trade and conduct brokerage business in 30…