Science Education & Policy

BERLIN, January 22 /PRNewswire/ -- - Company expands the impact of Partners in Learning program over the next five years, reaching up to three times as many students, teachers and schools. Microsoft Corp. today announced a renewed commitment over the next five years to Partners in Learning, a program that provides the education community with resources and training to help students reach their full potential. Through Partners in Learning, Microsoft is leveraging the transformative power of software to create innovative educational experiences that remove limitations, create opportunities,…

MILAN, Italy, January 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier has acquired Edra S.p.A, an online publishing company in the healthcare field. Together, Elsevier and Edra will be able to provide professional and promotional support to pharmaceutical companies by combining Elsevier's content and services with Edra's electronic capabilities and online delivery channel. An important tool is Medikey, the largest online medical and healthcare professional community in Italy. Elsevier Masson S.r.l, based in Milan, is the market leading provider of scientific and medical content and services, in the form of…

The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately impacts poor nations and costs them more than their combined foreign debt, according to a first-ever global accounting of the dollar costs of countries' ecological footprints. The study, led by former University of California, Berkeley, research fellow Thara Srinivasan, assessed the impacts of agricultural intensification and expansion, deforestation, overfishing, loss of mangrove swamps and forests, ozone depletion and climate change during a 40-year period, from 1961 to 2000. In the case of climate change and ozone depletion…

Climate scientists are teaming up with economics experts to improve forecasting models and assess more accurately the economic as well as environmental impact of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Although there is broad consensus that there will be a significant rise in average global temperature, there is great uncertainty over the extent of the change and the implications for different regions. To provide a sound basis for major policy decisions and to ensure that politicians and the public get accurate information, the climate modelling community has turned to some of the…

ARNHEM, The Netherlands, January 21 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design and engineering company, today announced that Mark Zellenrath (46) has been appointed to the position of Director Corporate Communications for ARCADIS. In this new position he will work on enhancing the name awareness of the ARCADIS brand. A core point will be the further professionalisation and internationalisation of the communications function at corporate level and in the global operating companies of the firm. In addition, ARCADIS wants to be a source of record and…

Like last year, the North Carolina Science Blogging conference was a hit. I moderated a session on public scientific data with Xan Gregg. Both of our talks were recorded and available here. (I used SciVee this time to store the screencast and was even able to use their supplementary document option to store the mp3 that Feedburner properly processed in the podcast feed.) We spent about half the session with presenting then there was an active discussion. (Hopefully someone got some decent audio on that part and I'll post a link here if possible.) The usual issues of scalability,…

HYDERABAD, India, January 21 /PRNewswire/ -- - FY2008 Revenue Now Estimated at US$2.1 Billion Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE:SAY), a leading business and information technology services provider, today announced the results of the company for the quarter ended December 31, 2007 (Q3). Consolidated Indian GAAP Highlights - Revenue was Rs. 2195.56 crore; a year-over-year increase of 32.2% and a sequential increase of 8.1%. - Volume growth for the quarter was 9.4%. - Net Profit after Tax was Rs. 433.63 crore; a year-over-year increase of 28.6% and a sequential increase of 6%. - EPS was Rs.…

ZUG, Switzerland, January 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Swiss Hawk AG is proud to announce that overall the Company's seven investment portfolio participations performed very well during 2007 and are on course for significant growth in value during 2008. The company expects to start a disposal from its holdings in quoted companies from March 2008 and onwards. It is expected that all unquoted investment holdings will be quoted on a recognised stock exchange or will be disposed through trade sales during the coming three months. At the time of listing of the unquoted companies a disposal plan will be…

LOS ANGELES, January 21 /PRNewswire/ -- - Following FDA Approval, Company Announces US$7,800 Wholesale Price for Lifesaving Drug AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today urged Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a division of Johnson & Johnson, to reconsider and reduce its steep price for its newest AIDS drug, etravirine (TMC 125), a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, (NNRTI), which received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval on Friday after a fast track or 'priority review' and approval process granted to companies for medications and therapies intended to treat life-…

A new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research says that women should avoid caffeine during the first trimester of pregnancy - caffeine equivalent to two cups of coffee per day was linked to a doubled risk of miscarriage compared to women who had no caffeine. The study controlled, for the first time, pregnancy-related symptoms of nausea, vomiting and caffeine aversion that tended to interfere with the determination of caffeine’s true effect on miscarriage risk. The research appears in the current online issue of American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. While previous…