Science Education & Policy

Elsevier's "ScienceDirect" Articles Surpass Nine-Million Mark

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, July 14 /PRNewswire/--- Platform's Online Content Doubled in Less Than Five Years Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, today announced that its online scientific research pl ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 14 2008 - 6:32am

Diabetes Online Health Guide Released On NHS Choices

LONDON, July 14 /PRNewswire/-- An online NHS Health Guide for people with diabetes has been launched on the national NHS website, NHS Choices http://www.nhs.uk The guide, http://www.nhs.uk/Pathways/diabetes/Pages/Landing.aspx, takes patients through each ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 14 2008 - 6:32am

First European Privacy Seal Awarded To Search Engine Ixquick

BRUSSELS, KIEL, Germany and ZEIST, The Netherlands, July 14 /PRNewswire/-- EU Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx presented the first European Privacy Seal to search engine Ixquick (http://www.ixquick.com) today. Ixquick is now the first search engin ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 14 2008 - 7:31am

Germany Institutes Gender Quotas In Science, Says They Are Voluntary

The topic of gender in science has been a hot one this decade. While women have equal representation in biology and an overwhelming majority in social sciences, they are lacking in the hard sciences and sparse at the professor level. Germany has implented ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2008 - 8:11am

Study: Global Business Performance Significantly Improved Through Project Management

WARSAW, Poland, July 14 /PRNewswire/-- Preliminary findings from a landmark independent, academic study on the value of project management, released today at the Project Management Institute's biennial research conference, clearly demonstrate that bu ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 14 2008 - 2:32pm

89 Percent Of Kid's Food Products Are Nutritionally Lousy (But 62 Percent Lie About It Anyway)

Nine out of ten regular food items aimed specifically at children have a poor nutritional content – because of high levels of sugar, fat or sodium- according to a detailed study of 367 products published in the July issue of the UK-based journal Obesity Re ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2008 - 6:14pm

New Carbon Sequestration Location- Undersea Volcanoes

A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide captured from power plants or other source ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2008 - 10:16pm

Tata Interactive Systems' Story-based Learning Wins The Emerald Literati Award.

MUMBAI, India, July 15 /PRNewswire/--- Former Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) Director Receives Commendation for Outstanding Paper on Rediscovering the joy of Learning Through Stories. Jon Revelos, former Director- Story-based Learning at TIS has been hono ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 15 2008 - 12:32am

First International Cancer Film Festival Announces Finalists

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 15 /PRNewswire/--- Global Line-up Drawn From Over 250 Entries The finalists for Reel Lives: The Cancer Chronicles, the first ever international documentary film competition on cancer, are announced today in a line-up that include ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 15 2008 - 1:31am

Agendia And Ferrer Announce Exclusive Agreement For Sales Of Cancer Diagnostic Services In Four Major European Markets

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands and BARCELONA, Spain, July 15 /PRNewswire/-- Agendia BV and Ferrer inCode today announced an agreement that will give Ferrer exclusive rights to sell two of Agendia's signature cancer diagnostic services-- MammaPrint(R), a prog ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 15 2008 - 3:31am