Science Education & Policy

SAN FRANCISCO, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - Seven Organizations Participate in Interoperability Scenarios to Meet Multi-Protocol Digital Identity Management Use Case Requirements in the Education, Enterprise and Government Sectors The Concordia Project, a global cross-industry initiative formed by members of the identity community to drive harmonization and interoperability among identity initiatives and protocols, today announced its first interoperability event taking place at RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco on Monday, April 7 from 9:00am - 12:30pm. The event will include FuGen…

UTRECHT, The Netherlands, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- www.studychoice.nl The Netherlands is an increasingly popular study destination for students from around the world who are looking to earn a bachelor's or master's degree. The www.studychoice.nl website provides detailed information on English-taught bachelor's and master's programmes available in the Netherlands. Transparency is an important aspect of the education system in the Netherlands, and that's why the website also allows visitors to compare the quality of the various study programmes. According to the 2007 THES-QS World University…

DUBLIN, Ireland, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- - Seminar Will Provide Practical and Comprehensive Training On Efficient Datacentre Cooling Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), a leading owner and manager of corporate datacentres and Internet gateways, will host a two-day seminar in Dublin on 16 and 17 April 2008 that will provide datacentre professionals with practical information about best practices for datacentre cooling. The seminar will feature three of the industry's most respected experts in datacentre operations and efficiency: -- Robert "Dr. Bob" F. Sullivan, PhD., the Uptime…

As we learn more and more about the human genome and delve into specifics about what makes certain people healthier than others at the genetic levl, it becomes possible for health care providers, insurers and even employers to use genetic information against individuals even when no health issue exists. A policy monograph highlighting the need for federal protections against genetic discrimination in employment and insurance practices was released today by the American College of Physicians (ACP). The six policy positions ACP believes should be included in the federal protections are the…

Experts estimate that $9 in productivity, health and other benefits are returned for every dollar invested in installing toilets for people in countries that today are off-track in meeting the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for sanitation. Achieving the sanitation goal – to simply halve the number of people without access to a toilet by 2015 – would cost $38 billion, less than 1% of annual world military spending. That investment, they say, would yield $347 billion worth of benefits – much of it related to higher productivity and improved health. According to UN figures, meeting the…

A recent survey by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harris Interactive, as part of their ongoing series, Debating Health: Election 2008, finds that Americans are generally split on the issue of whether the United States has the best health care system in the world (45% believe the U.S. has the best system; 39% believe other countries have better systems; 15% don’t know or refused to answer) and that there is a significant divide along party lines. Nearly seven-in-ten Republicans (68%) believe the U.S. health care system is the best in the world, compared to just three in ten (…

When did rabbits and hares diverge in evolution? The answer just got a little clearer. Last spring, Johns Hopkins anatomy professor Kenneth Rose was displaying the bones of a jackrabbit’s foot as part of a seminar when he noticed something familiar about the shape of the bones. That led to the discovery of the oldest known record of rabbits. The fossil evidence in hand, found in west-central India, predates the oldest previously known rabbits by several million years and extends the record of the whole category of the animal on the Indian subcontinent by 35 million years. The investigators…

GAINESVILLE, Florida, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Institute for Public Relations today introduced the Essential Knowledge Project, an online guide to the best research into how organizations build and manage relationships with customers, communities, employees and other stakeholders. "There is science beneath the art of public relations -- a tremendous amount of research conducted over the years on all aspects of creating and sustaining public opinion, attitudes and relationships," said Frank Ovaitt, Institute president and CEO. "Our goal is to make that knowledge more accessible not only…

LONDON, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- - Findings Reveal That a Third of Data Centre Managers are Failing to Prioritise the Reduction of Power According to research announced today by Global DataCenter Management (GDCM) and Quocirca, organisations in Europe and the US are failing to meet green objectives due to an apparent breakdown in communications between the corporate board and IT management level. Of those organisations surveyed, more than a third (35 per cent) of companies that have a carbon footprint reduction policy do not pass it onto IT as a formal objective. In fact, 55 per cent of data…

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 19 -- Professor John Anthony Allan from King's College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies, a pioneer of concepts key to the understanding and communication of water issues and how they are linked to agriculture, climate change, economics and politics, was named the 2008 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate. People do not only consume water when they drink it or take a shower. In 1993, Prof. Allan invented "virtual water," a controversial measurement of the water that is 'embedded' in the production of foods and consumer products. Behind that morning cup…