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UK Identity and Passport Service and IBM Sign 7-year National Biometric Identity Service (NBIS) Contract

LONDON, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) and the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), an executive agency of the UK Home Office, have signed a seven-year agreement for IBM to provide a core element of the Government's plans to upgrade to biometric passports and enhance ...

Troutlodge, University of Miami sign aquaculture agreement

Seattle, Wash. -- The University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science has entered into an agreement with Seattle-based Troutlodge Marine to cooperate on the research and commercialization of cobia and other tropical marine fish species. The agreement calls for the joi...

VistaGen, WARF sign license agreement for human embryonic stem cell technology

MADISON, VistaGen Therapeutics and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) have signed a license for human embryonic stem cell patents for the development and commercialization of stem cell-based research tools. VistaGen, a biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, is one of ...

Springer and the Physiological Society of Japan sign publishing agreement

The Physiological Society of Japan (PSJ) has chosen Springer to publish its official publication The Journal of Physiological Sciences , starting in January 2009 with Volume 59, Number 1. The bimonthly journal was previously published by Society and Medical Tribune Co. Ltd. The journal will joi...

Arbor Vita and WRAIR sign CRADA for traumatic brain injury collaboration

Sunnyvale, CA September 8, 2008 The U.S. Department of Applied Neurobiology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and Arbor Vita Corporation (AVC) have signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) for research and development of treatments for traumatic brain i...

Bad sign for global warming: Thawing permafrost holds vast carbon pool

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Permafrost blanketing the northern hemisphere contains more than twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, making it a potentially mammoth contributor to global climate change depending on how quickly it thaws. So concludes a group of nearly two dozen scientists in a p...

Dying frogs sign of a biodiversity crisis

BERKELEY Devastating declines of amphibian species around the world are a sign of a biodiversity disaster larger than just frogs, salamanders and their ilk, according to researchers from the University of California, Berkeley. In an article published online this week in the journal Proceeding...

USP Convention and Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission sign Memorandum of Understanding

Rockville, Md., March 6, 2008 The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) and the Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission (ChP) this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the purpose of working together to strengthen the quality of medicines and foods in the United States and China. Roger...

Top physics laboratories sign up to open access with PhysMath Central

PhysMath Central, the Open Access publisher for Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science, today announced membership agreements with the CERN and DESY high-energy physics laboratories. Under these agreements the organizations will centrally cover article-processing charges for all research publi...

Silicon Valley Technology Leaders LaserCard Corporation and Tesla Motors Sign LaserPass Secure Access Deal

LaserCard Launches ID Badge Fulfillment Service MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LaserCard Corporation (Nasdaq: LCRD ) and Tesla Motors announce the successful implementation of an optical memory card-based LaserPass Secure Access System for Tesla's corpora...

Osteoarthritis may be sign of faster 'biological ageing'

Osteoarthritis, the degenerative inflammatory bone disease, may be a sign of faster "biological ageing," suggests research published ahead of print in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. The authors base their findings on a study of almost 1100 people, aged between 30 and 79. Most of them were...

New Report Just Published: World Solid-State, Fiber, Gas and Dye Lasers Market Report

...th ITT II-42 Laser Photonics Partners with FANUC Robotics II-43 IPG Laser Receives Supply Contract from BMW Group II-43 Zecotek and T.E.M. sign Distribution Agreement II-43 Rofin-Sinar Takes Over Nufern II-43 Quantel Acquires WaveLight Aesthetics II-44 AMO Acquires IntraLase II-44 ...

Elsevier announces 2008 journal impact factor highlights

...onfirms the depth and excellence of our health sciences journal publishing program. The superior performance of so many of our journals this year is a sign of the strong partnerships we have with our journal editors and our societies. This year's impact factor growth is one indication of the hard work and...

Elephant-size loopholes sustain Thai ivory trade

...hailand has consistently been identified as one of the world's top five countries most heavily implicated in the illicit ivory trade, but shows little sign of addressing outstanding issues," said Tom Milliken, of TRAFFIC, which oversees a global monitoring programme, the Elephant Trade Information System ...

A research work will be the reference to characterize the climatic impact of desert dust

...e atmosphere, interacts with the particles in suspension and afterwards, collects the radiation returned to the instrument to study from that received sign the features and the position of particles". The research work, which has required a four-year effort, was organized in three main lines: the fine tu...

Striata and CIC Launch Integrated eSignature, eDelivery, and eBilling for the Financial Services Industry

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The evolution of gene regulation

... a repressor. Only one key fits the lock to this protein, to detach the repressor from the lactase gene: a lactose molecule, as a single, unmistakable sign that this sugar is present and now available as food. Other genes, however, are regulated without the use of repressors: these genes are directly acti...

Early identification of dementia increasingly difficult

...individuals participated in the study, of which 17% had developed dementia three years later. 'We can't say that memory loss is the only meaningful sign of future dementia among 85-year-olds, since other symptoms, such as difficulties finding words or drawing a geometric figure, were needed for their r...

Non-wovens as scaffolds for artificial tissue

... This release is available in German . When someone's knee hurts with every step it's a sign that the cartilage has been so badly damaged that the bones rub together when walking. Medical scientists are developing a technique to produce cartil...

Striata and CIC Launch Integrated eSignature, eDelivery, and eBilling for the Financial Services Industry

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First jaguar photo taken at Smithsonian Research Station in Panama

...stan adult jaguar tripped the camera's sensor at 3:07 a.m., thus creating a self-portrait photograph. "Our photo of a jaguar on Barro Colorado is a sign of hope," said Jackie Willis. "It proves jaguars are still in this area." Greg Willis spotted a jaguar on the island in 1983, but there have been very...

CCNY, CSHL biologists find birdsong of isolates reverts to norm over several generations

... among deaf children in Nicaragua. There, children developed a rudimentary sign language in the home that spontaneously evolved into a more sophisticated sign language when they were placed in a school with other deaf children. Dr....

Laughing hyenas, wailing levees, the sound of cheese and blaring bagpipes

...oes not laugh when it is having a good time. Rather, field biologists have noticed that hyenas make the sound when competing for food. The giggle is a sign of frustration, a call made by a subordinate animal when dominated by one of its peers. To find meaning in the giggle, Nicolas Mathevon and his col...

Scientists give a hand(edness) to the search for alien life

...developed* for detecting life elsewhere in the universe will not spot aliens directly. Rather, it could allow spaceborne instruments to see a telltale sign that life may have influenced a landscape: a preponderance of molecules that have a certain chirality, or handedness. A right-handed molecule has the ...

Global alliance of leading technological universities to address global societal issues

...projects. The secretariat function will be rotated among the seven universities. NTU is the secretariat for the Alliance from 2009 to 2011. As a sign of close and forward looking relations between member institutions of the Alliance, NTU and Imperial College London yesterday signed a Memorandum of U...

Men are the weaker sex

... Nurses in the maternity ward often say that a difficult labor is a sign of a baby boy. Now, a Tel Aviv University study provides scientific proof that a male baby comes with a bigger package of associated risks than his fe...

In troubled economic times, BioSquare 2009 successfully serves as business and innovation starter

...edge and know-how effectively, to determine which sectors are most favourable in terms of growth, to set up strategic partnerships, and to know how to sign the right contract… By enabling biotech companies to get advice from renown experts in these key areas, through its thematic sessions, BioSquar...

Communication Intelligence Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2008 Results

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Study suggests salt might be 'nature's antidepressant'

...ow to find it and how to conserve it. But today scientists are finding evidence that it's an abused, addictive substance -- almost like a drug. One sign of addiction is using a substance even when it's known to be harmful. Many people are told to reduce sodium due to health concerns, but they have trou...

APS commends President Obama's memorandum on scientific integrity

... WASHINGTON, D.C. The American Physical Society today commends President Obama's decision to sign a Memorandum on Scientific Integrity that will ensure that fact-based, scientific evidence is used in the development of solutions to the nation's mos...

CSHL researchers pinpoint structure-building role for 2 non-coding RNAs

...ENε and MENβ are structural organizers The paraspeckles were larger in differentiated muscle cells than in their stem-cell precursors a sign that their structure might depend on ncRNAs, whose levels are also higher in muscle cells. The team proved this point by inserting into the cells mole...

Scientists discover why teeth form in a single row

... formation starts early in development. Teeth develop from the epithelium and mesenchyme, two key tissue layers within the mammalian embryo. The first sign of tooth development in mammals is the thickening of the epithelium along the jaw line to form a band of cells called the dental lamina. Because all t...

Study examining role of genetics and environment in type 1 diabetes

...lopment of the disease in which the immune system attacks insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Children have their blood examined for the earliest sign of attack at multiple visits with study coordinators each year. Parents also keep detailed records of what their children eat, when they get sick or v...

No longer a gray area: Our hair bleaches itself as we grow older

...opean scientists have finally solved a mystery that has perplexed humans throughout the ages: why we turn gray. Despite the notion that gray hair is a sign of wisdom, these researchers show in a research report published online in The FASEB Journal ( http://www.fasebj.org ) that wisdom has nothing to do...

A revolutionary new model for Alzheimer's disease

...protein (APP) which are concentrated at the points where neurons connect. Even though the sticky amyloid plaques which have been viewed as a hallmark sign of AD result from APP, it seems unlikely that APP exists simply to cause Alzheimer's disease. In their study, scientists from the Buck Institute and t...

Cleaning the atmosphere of carbon: African forests out of balance

... shows that not only do trees in intact African tropical forests hold a lot of carbon, they hold more carbon now than they did 40 years ago--a hopeful sign that tropical forests could help to mitigate global warming. In a companion article, Helene Muller-Landau, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical...

Shark attacks decline worldwide in midst of economic recession

...ected dive in shark attacks, says a University of Florida researcher. Shark attacks worldwide in 2008 dipped to their lowest level in five years, a sign that Americans may be forgoing vacation trips to the beach, said George Burgess, ichthyologist and director of the International Shark Attack File, wh...

10 new amphibian species discovered in Colombia

...h many species impacted by climate change. "Without a doubt this region is a true Noah's Ark. The high number of new amphibian species found is a sign of hope, even with the serious threat of extinction that this animal group faces in many other regions of the country and the world," said Jose Vicent...

TGen and ASU researchers find drug that could reduce risk of Alzheimer's

...he form of a pill. Rats were tested on a water radial-arm maze, which assessed how well they remembered which of the radiating arms had a reward, a sign of accurate spatial learning and working memory. Rats given a high dose (0.3750 mg per kg of weight) of hydroxyfasudil successfully remembered more i...

Entrust Announces Financial Results for Fourth-Quarter and Fiscal 2008

...tal certificates in support of Adobe's Certified Document Services (CDS) program. Entrust Certificates for Adobe CDS enable organizations to digitally sign Adobe PDF files with confidence. Recipients will be able to take advantage of visual trust indicators to verify who published the document and confirm...