Prostate Cancer Patient in Montpellier Becomes First Cancer Patient in France Treated with Varian's RapidArc(TM) Radiotherapy.
MONTPELLIER, France, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A 60-year-old prostate cancer patient from Montpellier has become the first person in France to be treated using RapidArc(TM) technology from Varian Medical Systems for fast and precise forms of intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). Each of his treatments at the CRLC Val D'Aurelle...

Research and Markets Offers: Music & Video in France.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-26 November 2008-Research and Markets Offers: Music & Video in France(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Music & Video in France" report to its offerings. In a release, Research and Markets noted that report highlights include:...

BancTec Expands Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Presence in France With Document@Work Transaction.
PARIS, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- BancTec, a global provider of advanced, high-volume, document and payment processing solutions and services, has announced that it has reached an agreement to assume all of the contracts and employees of BPO services provider Document@Work. The agreement will enable BancTec to grow its global...

Essilor Cancels 1,600,000 Shares.
CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, December 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On November 28, Essilor cancelled 1,600,000 shares, in line with its commitment to shareholders to offset the dilutive impact of Oceane bond conversions and the Company's stock option plans. These latest cancellations concerned shares acquired under the 6.9 million share buyback...

Nathalie Vanfasse. Charles Dickens. Entre normes et deviance.
Nathalie Vanfasse. Charles Dickens. Entre normes et deviance. Aix-en-Provence, France: Publications de l'Universite de Provence, 2007. Pp. 255 + 17 ill. Paper 25[euro]. At the time of writing, the book under consideration is presently one on a shortlist of four chosen from 31 studies in competition for...

Probing Deeper into System Response.
BALLSTON SPA, N.Y., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Magsoft Corporation announces the release of Portunus V3.1. Portunus is system level simulation software which is developed in cooperation with Adapted Solutions of Chemnitz, Germany and Cedrat of Grenoble, France. Portunus is a coupled system simulator which allows both analog...

Entrepreneurship "Only way to Avoid Global Recession" Says EMLYON Business School, Leading International Business School.
LYON, France, November 26 /PRNewswire/ -- "Entrepreneurs need to understand how to do business in global, rather than just domestic markets if they are to fulfill their true potential," says Patrice Houdayer, Dean of the leading European business school, EMLYON. "In fact this type of entrepreneurship may be the...

Clip & save art notes.
ABOUT THE ARTIST In today's art world, French painter Henri Rousseau would be considered an "outsider artist," a term that describes those who create art despite a lack of formal art training. This son of an ironmonger from Laval, France, would become the father of outsider art,...

Classroom use of the art print.
THINGS TO KNOW Henri Rousseau was born in France and lived there all his life, despite spending four years in the French army in his early 20s. After his brief stint in the army, he got a job with the French customs office, where he worked as...

NicOx Signs Agreement With DSM for the Commercial Manufacture of Naproxcinod Drug Substance.
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France, December 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NicOx S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris: COX) today announced it has signed an agreement with DSM for the commercial manufacture and supply of naproxcinod drug substance (or API, active pharmaceutical ingredient). Naproxcinod is NicOx' lead investigational product and the first compound in the...