Science Education & Policy

AMSTERDAM, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- - Online Resource to Support Journal Editors Handling Publishing Ethics Issues Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today the launch of its Publishing Ethics Resource Kit (PERK) (http://www.elsevier.com/publishingethicskit). Launching PERK at the Elsevier Editors' Conference in Singapore, Mark Seeley, Senior Vice President and General Legal Counsel, described PERK as being "a single point of access for information and guidelines on publishing ethics providing our Journal…

PARIS, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- - The International Transport Forum, 28-30 May in Leipzig Transport and Energy: The Challenge of Climate Change "The International Transport Forum offers a unique opportunity for the transport sector to say how it will deal with global warming," said Jack Short, Secretary General of the International Transport Forum in Paris on Tuesday, while introducing the programme of the Forum 2008. "The Forum will bring together Ministers, politicians, key industry actors, top researchers as well as high level representatives of NGOs and civil society from around the world…

ZUG, Switzerland, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Swiss Hawk AG's portfolio company Motion Network Holding Plc ("MNH") continues its policy to implement local partnerships in Europe to create country platforms in charge of domestic advertising sales, local content production and e-commerce solutions. MNH has announced that it has concluded a local partnership deal with Komuna to create a Balkan regional platform for the exploitation of the following territories: Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania and Romania. Mr Maksa Catovic (prominent Serbian producer) will run…

SAN JOSE, California, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- - Superior Computational Performance, Scalability, and Power Efficiency Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high performance server solutions, today announced that its dual-processor (DP) SuperBlade(TM) servers were recently chosen by CERN (one of the world's largest research labs) for part of a significant upgrade of its computing capacity for the new LHC (Large Hadron Collider) project in Geneva. High computational performance, excellent scalability, superior energy efficiency and a competitive price/…

REDMOND, Washington, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- - Customers get immediate access to the new service that extends Microsoft Office, provides anywhere access to documents and enables sharing functionality. Microsoft Corp today announced the public availability of Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta (http://workspace.officelive.com), the new web-based extension of Microsoft Office that lets people access their documents online and share their work with others. Office Live Workspace was among the first entries in the new wave of online services in Microsoft's software plus services vision…

SAN RAMON, California, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Prodiance Corporation, the leading provider of enterprise spreadsheet management solutions, today announced that it will host an online seminar with Microsoft and Ventana Research for senior executives entitled: "21st Century Spreadsheets: Business Value Driver or Clear &: Present Risk?". The seminar will last approximately 60 minutes, and will be held on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 at 1:00 pm EDT. It will feature industry experts from Microsoft's Financial Services industry group along with leading industry analysts to discuss the key…

Older men with lower free testosterone levels in their blood appear to have higher prevalence of depression, according to a new report. Depression affects between 2 percent and 5 percent of the population at any given time, according to background information in the article. Women are more likely to be depressed than men until age 65, when sex differences almost disappear. Several studies have suggested that sex hormones might be responsible for this phenomenon. Osvaldo P. Almeida, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P., of the University of Western Australia, Perth, and colleagues studied 3,987 men age…

Throughout the world, amateurs, experts and the media agree that prolonged jogging raises people's spirits. And many believe that the body’s own opioids, so called endorphins, are the cause of this. But in fact this has never been proved until now. Researchers at the Technische Universität München and the University of Bonn succeeded to demonstrate the existence of an ‘endorphin driven runner’s high’. In an imaging study they were able to show, for the first time, increased release of endorphins in certain areas of the athletes' brains during a two-hour jogging session. Their results are…

WASHINGTON D.C., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- With oil prices exceeding US$100 a barrel, the United States, and the world, is being forced to recognize that fossil fuels may not only be damaging the environment, but also losing their competitive edge regarding price. Germany is pioneering solutions to this problem. It has demonstrated that renewable energies can play an important role in a sustainable industrial policy - providing jobs, returns to investors, and carbon emission reductions. Results from Germany and how to benefit from them will be presented to investors at WIREC 2008, the…

LONDON, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Disciplinary Committee of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons has this week decided to further postpone its decision on the sanction of a Lincolnshire veterinary surgeon who had appeared before the Committee a year ago, charged with serious professional misconduct. In October 2006, Joseph Holmes MRCVS, of the Waltham Veterinary Clinic near Grimsby, was found guilty of disgraceful conduct in a professional respect for performing inappropriate and out-of-date veterinary treatment. Judgment was postponed for a period of two years subject conditions that…