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	Review \| Platform by Michel Houellebecq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Houellebecq's novel will not offend people who practice genuine virtues, but rather the false moralizers who pretend to practice values that they clearly do not intend to defend in their daily actions.
		Thus, it goes without saying that Platform is a novel that is not suited for all readers due to its desire to shock and its graphic use of sex.
		The second part of the novel has Michel and Valerie return to Thailand where they have opened a resort that is called "Eldorador Aphrodite." At that stage in the novel Michel seems to discover an inner tranquility that none of Houellebecq's previous characters ever managed to attain.
	www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/http://www.nefarious-tales.com/fiction/platform.html (2452 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Books - Platform
		And though critics have managed to overlook the fact, "Platform's" attack on Islam is part of a sweeping indictment of all monotheist faiths, starting with Judaism.
		In the logic of "Platform," Islamic terrorism has a special role to play; it is world's coarse, murderous way of saying thanks but no, thanks to globalization.
		In his previous novel, "The Elementary Particles," he blamed the generation of 1968 -- sometimes known in France as the "soixante-retards" -- for his country's ills.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2003/49632_20031119.asp (1082 words)

	Platform - Michel Houellebecq
		"It is a novel of ideas, but if that phrase makes you want to reach for your pistol, it also comes with a well-crafted plot, a cast of fully fleshed characters and sex scenes that could stop the traffic.
		The novel ends in resignation and despair, but along the way it accommodates a skewed and lyrical vision of romantic longing and fulfillment.
		But Platform does not contain an "idea" to keep a mayfly awake at night, and Houellebecq is no more a novelist of ideas than Benny Hill.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/houelbqm/platform.htm (2709 words)

	Random House Academic Resources \| Platform by Michel Houellebecq
		At the end of the novel, Michel says, “If by chance it had been my intention, when I began writing these pages, to lessen the feeling of loss, or to make it more bearable, I would by now be certain of my failure: Valérie’s absence has never been more painful to me” [p.
		Platform has generated a good deal of controversy in France and elsewhere, with readers, critics, and fellow writers being sharply divided about both the literary merits of the novel and what some feel to be its deliberately offensive or shocking passages.
		When Valérie voices her incomprehension of masochism, Michel reflects that “the things people do, the things they are prepared to endure.
	www.randomhouse.com /acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400030262&view=rg (677 words)

	Novell and MySQL Partner to Ship MySQL Database with NetWare
		Part of Novell Nterprise™ - a set of services that improve communication, simplify and automate network management, and allow workers to be productive regardless of location, device or platform - NetWare integrates with existing networks as one Net, empowering new services and maximizing current technology investments.
		Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) is the leading provider of Net business solutions designed to secure and power the networked world.
		Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks and Nterprise is a trademark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
	www.novell.com /news/press/archive/2002/10/pr02073.html (823 words)

	NeuroMolecular Pharmaceuticals : R&D : Technology Platform
		NeuroMolecular has developed an integrated in vitro and in vivo assay platform for the evaluation of both activity and safety of uncompetitive NMDAR channel antagonists.
		These assays have been applied to a wide range of novel leads, compounds under development and approved compounds with excellent predictive value.
		Added to this assay platform is a novel synthetic chemistry route to reliably derivatize the memantine's adamantant core to produce several libraries of novel compounds.
	www.neuromolecular.com /research/platform.html (124 words)

	Proprietary Platform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Plexxikon's novel drug discovery approach starts with a unique screening filter applied to Plexxikon's core collection of "scaffold-like" compounds, combining both low-affinity bio-chemical assays and high-throughput X-ray crystallography, to select the best scaffold compounds for lead development.
		Thus, Plexxikon is mining a novel part of the chemical universe.
		Due to the structural similarity, or homology, between targets in a protein family, Plexxikon is able to apply a systems approach to drug discovery and highly leverage its investment in discovery research as well as chemistry.
	www.plexxikon.com /proprietary-plat.shtml (557 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Platform: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Platform is hard hitting and is very easy to read, it's drive is the artful delivery by Houellebecq of a wonderful acute sense of internal justification (no longer his - it becomes yours) when faced with a decision on how to feel and respond when something tragic has happened.
		The story of Platform (without giving any too much away) is not exclusively (as sometimes criticised) about a clash of religion, sex, culture - it's a clash of the modern European mind, yet still running to a romantic 'boy meets girl, boy loses girl' tragedy.
		The beauty of novels is that this kind of digression is possible, whereas in a movie script, for example, it is not.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099437880 (1038 words)

	Entelos Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Detailed target validation protocols were delivered to Organon for conducting in vitro and in vivo experiments to establish the functional relevance of the novel targets before moving the targets to highthroughput screening.
		With the 2nd generation platform researchers will be able to evaluate an expanded set of potential drug targets, including those involved in angiogenesis, T cell recruitment and bone erosion.
		We have multiple PhysioLab® platforms in immunology and metabolism and are currently developing new platforms in cardiovascular, CNS and oncology.
	www.entelos.com /news/pressArchive/press53.html (845 words)

	Frenchculture.org \| Books \| Platform by Michel Houellebecq (Knopf 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Platform is, as Anita Brookner has written, "a brilliant novel, casting a prescient eye on the abuses and inequalities that lead to wider trouble."
		This makes the career of Michel Houellebecq all the more impressive, in that he actually seems to have convinced his countrymen he is really pornographic, and moreover seems to have convinced himself he is so reviled he must live abroad - the exiled prince of French letters.
		"Platform [...] is a novel of ideas, but if that phrase makes you want to reach for your pistol, it also comes with a well-crafted plot, a cast of fully fleshed characters and sex scenes that could stop the traffic.
	www.frenchculture.org /books/events/03platformcontest.html (1257 words)

	AGY Therapeutics Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Urfer will discuss the discovery of two novel stroke targets, one in the area of acute neuroprotection and the other in post-stroke functional recovery enhancement – the two areas of stroke therapeutic intervention to which AGY applies its functional genomics research technologies.
		Detailed functional genomic analysis of brain tissues from these animals led to identification of a novel target that is up-regulated in response to this enriched environment, and AGY researchers have demonstrated that a compound binding to this target enhances functional recovery from stroke-induced brain trauma.
		AGY Therapeutics' proprietary ImAGYne™ platform defines the intra- and extra-cellular signaling pathways that underlie the pathological progression of central nervous system (CNS) diseases, so novel, high-quality targets can be carefully selected and functionally validated with the most valuable targets advanced into drug discovery and development.
	www.agyinc.com /03_9_15.html (581 words)

	Method and apparatus for controlling geometrically simple parallel mechanisms with distinctive connections (US5179525)
		The dimensions of the base platform and the movable platform, as well the lengths of the support legs, are provided to a control system.
		The control system is suitable for controlling known 3-3 or 6-3 Stewart platforms in a novel manner, as well as controlling the novel special 6-6 parallel mechanism.
		Also disclosed is a method for reducing the novel special 6-6 parallel mechanism to a Stewart platform equivalent, which is then controlled by the disclosed closed-form forward displacement control system.
	www.delphion.com /details?pn=US05179525__ (547 words)

	Beyond the Spine with Sarie Morrell: So What's Your Platform?
		While these phrases don’t summarize the plot nuances and character developments necessary to sustain the interest of film-goers (and which are crucial aspects of their blockbuster successes), they are what hook us into buying a movie ticket or purchasing a DVD to be entertained.
		CREEPERS is a cross-genre novel containing elements of mystery, horror, thriller and suspense – I describe it as a dark-suspense thriller.
		A platform can’t be forced and an author should never compromise their artistic integrity or vision to force a book into a “mold”, it should come naturally.
	www.readersroom.com /2006/01/so-whats-your-platform.html (1023 words)

	April 16, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The company is integrating cutting-edge technologies, including structure-driven chemistry, in the lead-finding process to rapidly discover novel chemical scaffolds and high-quality drug leads using a protein-family approach.
		Plexxikon's novel scaffolds are low molecular-weight chemical compounds that act broadly on multiple protein family members, targeting their conserved regions.
		These chemical scaffolds serve as a foundation from which novel drug leads for specific targets can be developed.
	www.plexxikon.com /release-041602.shtml (360 words)

	Generex Biotechnology - Generex Biotechnology Presents Proposal to Interested U.S. Senators to Accelerate Development ...
		The vaccine being developed is based on a proprietary platform technology whereby protein fragments (epitopes) from a novel antigen are identified and modified to enhance T helper cell stimulation.
		The nature of the platform is such that any novel infectious agent can be analyzed rapidly for identification of MHC class II epitopes and subsequent modification for increased potency in stimulating T helper cells in an antigen-specific fashion.
		The core platform technologies of Antigen Express comprise immunotherapeutics for the treatment of malignant, infectious, allergic, and autoimmune diseases.
	www.generex.com /news-management/templates/press.asp?articleid=235&zoneid=2 (782 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		No French writer could begin a novel “Father died last year” without specifically invoking Camus’s “The Stranger.” Houellebecq’s narrator is called Renault, perhaps hinting that such a man has become a mere cog in a mechanized society; but the name also chimes with Meursault, Camus’s narrator.
		“Platform” begins very much in the mode of “The Elementary Particles,” with a radically detached male narrator, a child of the information age, excoriating the falseness of the world.
		Sentimental in that the novel’s really nice, straightforward characters are Oriental masseuses and prostitutes, who are presented as being without flaws, diseases, pimps, addictions, or hangups.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books?030707crbo_books (2765 words)

	A national research and development platform for novel drug development from indigenous medicinal plants
		A clinical trial platform will be established in order to bring the evidence to the point of proof of concept.
		Subsequent pharmaceutical and manufacturing development, after establishing proof of principle, will be conducted in collaboration with pharmaceutical chemists and with the pharmaceutical industry (industrial collaboration will be with South African partners, and in particular with the generic pharmaceutical industry will happen).
		The 24 000 southern African terrestrial plants, of which 4 000 have medicinal significance, and the diverse marine plant flora of which little medicinal application is known, have the potential to expand enormously the search for novel anti-disease compounds.
	www.sahealthinfo.org /noveldrug/novelpamphlet.htm (797 words)

	ArQule - Activated Checkpoint TherapySM Platform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Further, compounds resulting from the ACTSM platform are designed to apply to a broad spectrum of cancers and counteract cancer heterogeneity.
		ArQule's Biomedical Institute has initiated a series of research and drug discovery programs designed to identify novel targets within checkpoint pathways and exploit the Company's chemistry capabilities to discover and develop novel drugs targeting checkpoint pathways.
		Of equal importance is the effect of checkpoint activation in normal cells.
	www.arqule.com /wt/arc/act (1067 words)

	Entelos Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Inc., the leader in the emerging field of systems biology, and Organon, an international pharmaceutical company that is developing immune and anti-inflammatory therapies, announced today that Entelos received a milestone payment for delivering novel targets for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
		Detailed target validation protocols were delivered to Organon for conducting in vitro and in vivo experiments to establish the functional relevance of the novel targets before moving the targets to high-throughput screening.
		The Diabetes Research Forum is a groundbreaking collaboration between Entelos, the American Diabetes Association and a select number of pharmaceutical companies to advance research in the diagnosis and treatment of Type 2 diabetes.
	www.entelos.com /news/pressArchive/press60.html (878 words)

	Plastics & Rubber Weekly
		The Arbroath, Scotland, firm is a leader in high speed machinery that assembles polymer and metal parts into, for example, hypodermic syringes.
		It has previously made bespoke machinery, but is now launching a flexible modular platform that makes it quicker and easier for manufacturers to achieve mass production.
		The system will be demonstrated at the show using pick and place automation and a five-axis robot, but it can be customised by AGR — or by the client — to do welding, printing, joining or whatever operation is desired.
	www.prw.com /main/newsdetails.asp?id=5116 (223 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| Platform by Michel Houellebecq
		After his father’s death, Michel embarks on a Thai Tropic tour, where he indulges his enthusiasm for Thai prostitutes, makes wry observations about the social habits of his fellow tourists, and keeps his distance from Valérie, a young employee of the tour company who, for reasons he cannot quite fathom, seems interested in him.
		Michel’s plan turns out to be highly successful, but not everyone is happy about it, and as the novel pushes towards its dramatic conclusion, Michel feels the full force of the violent antipathy his idea has created.
		In the tradition of Camus and Dostoevsky, Houellebecq has written a novel unflinching in its depiction of a world where not even capitalism, art, literature, religion, travel, or sex can offer any lasting escape from the bleakness of the human predicament.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400030262&view=rg (1092 words)

	Alltracel Successfully Develops Novel Nano-Fibre Delivery Platform for its Patented m.doc(TM) Woundcare Technology
		Elmarco (http://www.elmarco.cz) is a specialist R&D and manufacturing company that has developed, in conjunction with the Technical University of Liberic, a novel proprietary & patented process for spinning polymers into nano-scale fibres for a range of industrial, chemical, micro-electronic and bio-medical applications.
		This novel nano-fibre based m.doc(TM) delivery platform enables not only the development of new m.doc(TM) products and delivery systems but also the cost effective re-engineering of existing m.doc(TM) delivery systems.
		Within the Cardiovascular Health market Alltracel (http://www.alltracelcvh.com) has developed a novel bioactive compound that, following two years of scientific research including in vitro, pre-clinical and clinical trials, indicates cardiovascular health (CVH) benefits on its own and in combination with existing CVH products.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-16-2006/0004321264&EDATE= (680 words)

	BioSpace News for ACADIA Pharmaceuticals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		ACADIA scientists reported that they have discovered novel compounds that are potent and highly selective for a specific insect G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR), but are inactive at the closely related human targets.
		This demonstrates the utility of ACADIA's chemical-genomics platform in the discovery of novel chemistries for various applications where differentiation between mammalian and non-mammalian targets is desired, such as agriculture and infectious disease.
		The presentation was made by ACADIA scientists at the Orphan Nuclear Receptors Biology and Ligand conference in Sunnyvale, California, which focuses on the state-of-the-art knowledge on orphan nuclear receptors, an important class of drug targets whose natural ligands are currently unknown.
	www.acor.org /drugs/pipeline/companies/news/old/1657.news.orig (882 words)

	Novel binding site for epilepsy drug provides new platform for drug discovery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A major advance in understanding the mode of action of the novel anti-epilepsy drug, Keppra (levetiracetam), appears to confirm it as the first of a new class of central nervous system (CNS) drugs.(1)
		It provides an innovative and unique drug discovery platform to identify new drugs with improved characteristics at UCB Pharma — one of Europe’s leading speciality pharmaceutical companies — and provides molecular evidence that Keppra is different from all other anti-epileptic and CNS drugs.
		Monotherapy studies are ongoing for Keppra, and preliminary results show that the drug is a well-tolerated, effective and rational choice for the treatment of partial seizures.(4,5) UCB Pharma hopes to gain a monotherapy indication for Keppra in Q2 2006.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=10320 (805 words)

	Amazon.com: Platform: Books: Michel Houellebecq,Frank Wynne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He has some fundamental insights and pursues them with an unstinting through the novel, and whether in the end one agrees or finds them persuasive or not, it must be granted that he is putting more on the table than the vast majority of contemporary novelists.
		Platform is one of the only books I have read in the last ten years that has given me, as a writer, the energy (and a bit of a boost to acerbic wit) to write precisely what I feel, uncensored and to the point.
		Platform is not exclusively about a clash of religion and culture - it's a clash of the modern European mind.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375414622?v=glance (2122 words)

	Avalon Pharmaceuticals: News and Press: Press Releases: Phylos and Avalon Pharmaceuticals to collaborate on ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The resulting drug-protein interaction assays will be incorporated into Avalon's novel genomics technology platform for screening large libraries of small molecule chemicals to determine their effect on multiple markers for drug activity.
		Formed in 1997, Phylos is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the exploitation of its cutting-edge drug discovery platform to develop novel products for understanding life and improving human health.
		Currently, Avalon is focusing its efforts on identifying therapeutics with novel mechanisms of actions that counteracts or arrest the malignant transformation of cancer cells.
	www.avalonrx.com /news/pr_020513.html (593 words)

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