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August 21st, 2009 ABERDEEN, Scotland - Global offshore wind farm capacity will grow at a compound annual rate of 32 per cent in the coming decade, according to a new report by energy consulting firm ODS-Petrodata. The International Offshore Wind Market to 2020 report predicts that by the end of 2020 global offshore wind farm capacity will have soared to 55 gigawatts, or enough to power almost 37 million European homes.

August 19th, 2009 NEW YORK and LONDON - Globalpark (www.globalpark.com), a leading provider of panel, community and survey software, continues its pattern of strong growth with second quarter 2009 revenues at EUR2.5 million. This represents an increase of 35% compared with the same period in 2008.

July 21st, 2009 LONDON - Under its new online travel marketing and promotion division, bigblueroad.com, Discover the World Marketing recently developed an information web site for Princess Cruises in South Africa. Discover partnered with Infused Projects of South Africa to create www.princesssa.co.za that launched this week.

July 14th, 2009 HALIFAX, Canada - Scientists in Atlantic Canada have found a gene that may play a role in skin aging. Researchers were investigating the genetic cause of a rare disorder known as cutis laxa type 2 (CL2), which causes skin on the hands, feet and face to be loose and older looking, as well as growth and developmental delays including effects on the brain.

June 11th, 2009 AMSTERDAM - Improving Research Discoverability and Productivity Elsevier today announced a new partnership agreement with NextBio, provider of an innovative platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data to enrich ScienceDirect content. This agreement allows for an integration of NextBio's unique set of ontology-based semantic tools and a compilation of high quality sources of public data on ScienceDirect, providing health science, life science and chemistry researchers with a dynamic platform to improve discoverability and research productivity.

June 1st, 2009 REDWOOD CITY, California - Integromics, S.L. and Ingenuity Systems announced the integration of RealTime StatMiner(R) and Integromics Biomarker Discovery(TM) (IBD) for TIBCO Spotfire(R) with Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA).

May 4th, 2009 REDWOOD CITY, California - Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, today announced a multi-year agreement with AstraZeneca. AstraZeneca plans to expand the utilization of IPA in its research and target discovery programs to gain deeper domain knowledge of disease-related pathways and targets.

April 7th, 2009 PARIS - Uzbekistan's permanent representative to UNESCO, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, launches "Uzbekistan 2020" - a charity fund dedicated to developing cultural, intellectual and human exchanges between Western Europe and Uzbekistan. "Uzbekistan 2020" will be inaugurated on April 8th 2009, during a gala dinner with many eminent personalities, at Paris' Museum of Modern Art: amongst them, Former First Lady Mrs.

March 24th, 2009 AMSTERDAM - Innovation Explorers Unites 300 Researchers From 69 Countries Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of Innovation Explorers, an online community of 300 researchers from 69 countries. Through online activities ranging from facilitated chats to one-on-one interviews, the members will help Elsevier identify, design and deliver relevant products and services that resonate with and inspire research scientists around the world.

March 10th, 2009 NEW YORK - Brendan Light, Senior Vice President of Research and Product Development at BuzzBack Market Research will host two free Webinars: New Ways to Improve Online Consumer Research, on Wednesday, March 18 at 2 PM Eastern and Thursday, March 19 at 10 AM Eastern. Better understanding of consumer wants and needs are crucial to improving product development, advertising and communications in today's competitive environment.

September 15th, 2009 LONDON - Teenage girls find men with deeper voices more attractive, while younger girls find them intimidating and prefer those with low-pitched voices, according to new research from St Andrews University. While younger girls felt lower-pitched voices reminded them of scary characters like Darth Vader, older girls preferred deep voices like that of American singer Barry White.

June 29th, 2009 SYDNEY - Researchers have hit upon a new and simpler way of manipulating light to enable quicker, more secure data transfer. The discovery is based on existing optical technology, but uses it in such a way that fewer components and light beams are required, said research leader Jiri Janousek, from the Australian National University (ANU).

August 19th, 2009 SYDNEY - Researchers have warned of a surge in online trading and 'anti-retail movement' that could doom retail outlets over the next 10 years. Some traditional retailing is likely to become obsolete by 2020, as manufacturers choose to sell directly to the public and consumers prefer to deal directly with wholesalers.

August 18th, 2009 LONDON - An exhaustive study by scientists has concluded that flamingoes stand on one leg to regulate their body temperature. According to a report by BBC News, the study was carried out by Matthew Anderson and Sarah Williams, who are comparative psychologists based at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, US.

August 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Inspired by how the blow fly's extremely quick eyesight helps to keep it from losing orientation as it makes "lightning-fast" movements to and fro, scientists in Germany have created an unusual research environment. Members of a Munich-based "excellence cluster", called Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys), describe their invention as a flight simulator for flies.

March 18th, 2009 EDINBURGH - A new study has suggested that online shopping for books, clothes, CDs and DVDs is 24 times greener than taking the car to the shops and seven times greener than taking the bus. According to a report in The Scotsman, researchers at the Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, carried out the study.

August 31st, 2009 LONDON - In what may eventually prove very useful in human health research, scientists at Michigan State University have come up with a more efficient method to clone zebra fish. What makes this work an important achievement is the fact that zebra fish, which have served as an excellent model for understanding normal development and birth defects for more than 20 years, are quickly becoming the animal of choice for many researchers.

May 4th, 2009 LONDON - Do you often get angry? Well, then, blame your genes, says a new study. German researchers say that a gene called DARPP-32 may help explain why some people fly into a rage at the slightest provocation, while others can remain calm.

February 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - 'Major' depression is a severe and widespread psychiatric disorder which is on way to becoming a killer disease worldwide. However, despite extensive investigations, the exact mechanisms that lead to major depression or MD have not been identified.

March 21st, 2009 LONDON - Online shopping sites in Britain are flooded with fake goods such as counterfeit designer clothing and computer softwares. According to a research was carried out by the online marketplace Price Minister, these fake goods are worth a whopping 800 million pounds.