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PRA Health Sciences expands its response to COVID-19 with pharmacovigilance solutions for authorized vaccines and therapeutics

RALEIGH, N.C., April 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PRA Health Sciences (NASDAQ: PRAH) announced today the expansion of its pharmacovigilance solution to offer full post–marketing services for authorized COVID–19 vaccines and therapeutics, including post–authorization safety studies (PASS) delivered by Real World Solutions. With more than 25 years of experience executing comprehensive pharmacovigilance and patient safety services in all key therapeutic areas including infectious diseases, PRA can work closely with drug developers and manufacturers in ensuring long–term safety and efficacy of COVID–19 vaccines and treatments.

With thousands of COVID–19 vaccines, therapies, and new and complex modalities under research around the world, drug developers are in an extraordinarily unique environment that requires speed, accuracy, and transparency of pharmacovigilance and safety data monitoring.

"As more COVID–19 vaccines and therapeutics are approved, Marketing Authorization Holders will have massive volumes of safety data to review and report in almost real–time," said Sabine Richter, Ph.D, Vice President, Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety, PRA Health Sciences. "Our pharmacovigilance solutions enable clients to adhere to regulatory reporting and compliance standards and perform ongoing safety surveillance to ensure the highest level of patient safety."

With a global team of more than 800 pharmacovigilance and patient safety experts, along with the Center for Vaccines and Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Real World Solutions team, PRA provides a range of services to detect, assess, understand, minimize, and prevent adverse effects or other drug–related risks. PRA continues to invest in novel approaches and technologies, such as artificial intelligence, automation, and data analytics that can manage large amounts of pharmacovigilance data and ensure near real–time monitoring of safety information.

In addition, using PRA's Mobile Health Platform, participants can self–enroll into a PASS at the time of vaccination "" providing an easy way to report symptoms and provide access to a nurse–led coordination center to report symptoms that may require follow–up with a healthcare provider.

"The global COVID–19 vaccination and therapeutic response is one of the largest public health programs of our lifetimes. Near real–time safety data and analysis is critical to quickly identifying, assessing and preventing drug–related risks," said Greg Licholai, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer, PRA Health Sciences. "PRA's Mobile Health Platform and pharmacovigilance solutions are examples of PRA's commitment to patient–first approaches to clinical research and healthcare delivery."

Since the onset of the pandemic, PRA has launched several initiatives to support the global COVID–19 response. PRA Health Sciences' leadership in digital health enables us to quickly and proactively manage COVID–19 studies and programs, including:

  • Expanding the Mobile Health Platform, PRA's decentralized clinical trials platform, to address sponsors' needs for virtual COVID–19 studies.
  • Managing an unprecedented study start–up timeline that was days rather than months. In 2020, PRA took one study from final protocol to first patient dosed for a COVID–19 therapeutic in just five days "" a timeline unheard of in the industry. Within 15 days, the trial scope expanded outside the US and ended with 2,000 patients across 280 sites in 35 countries.
  • Launching the COVID–19 Monitoring Program, an end–to–end commercial solution that supports patients and administrators in mitigating impacts of COVID–19 "" from education, exposure, testing, monitoring and through recovery. Recently, the program was enhanced with at–home COVID–19 testing capabilities and an AI–based bot service to answer patients' COVID–19–related questions.
  • Conducting ongoing, real–world data analysis of more than 26 million patients who have been exposed, tested, diagnosed with COVID–19, or received a COVID–19 vaccination. By using de–identified medical and prescription claims data, PRA longitudinally tracks patients and uses these insights to improve study design, such as validating protocol inclusion/exclusion criteria against real–world care patterns and identifying physicians who manage high volumes of COVID–19 patients for potential investigator sites.

Please visit PRAHS.com for more information about PRA's pharmacovigilance solutions, patient safety solutions specific to COVID–19, and ways PRA is helping clients navigate COVID–19.

About PRA Health Sciences

PRA Health Sciences is one of the world's leading global contract research organizations by revenue, providing outsourced clinical development and data solution services to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. PRA's global clinical development platform includes more than 75 offices across North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, Australia and the Middle East and more than 17,500 employees worldwide. Since 2000, PRA has participated in approximately 4,000 clinical trials worldwide. In addition, PRA has participated in the pivotal or supportive trials that led to U.S. Food and Drug Administration or international regulatory approval of more than 95 drugs. To learn more about PRA, please visit www.prahs.com.

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BitWats release Most Profitable ASIC Miners

NEW YORK, April 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitwats (www.BitWats.com), a team of technology leaders working relentlessly to bring the latest crypto–mining technology to the public, has just released the market's most powerful and profitable crypto miners. The company's product range currently comprises of BT, DBT, and GBT, three multi–algorithm miners capable of delivering lightning fast hash rate, maximum energy efficiency, and fastest possible return on investment.

All the miners from Bitwats are built around the latest ASIC technology. An ASIC or application–specific integrated circuit is a microchip designed for a special application. Powered by 5nm ASIC chips, the mining rigs from Bitwats offer extraordinary hash rates and energy efficiency for mining bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, and monero. As a result, the profitability of these miners is second to none in the current crypto market.

DBT offers hash rates of 750 TH/s, 70 GH/s, 5 GH/s, and 5 MH/s, for bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, and monero respectively. On the other hand, for GBT Miner, the hash power in the same order are 2250 TH/s, 210 GH/s, 15 GH/s, and 15 MH/s. The power consumptions for these two units are 900W and 2200W respectively

Based on figures mentioned above, monthly profit making potential of the two units is as mentioned below.

  • DBT Miner: $7,500 (Bitcoin), $13,000 (Litecoin), $13,000 (Ethereum), and $15,000 (Monero)
  • GBT Miner: $22,500 (Bitcoin), $39,000 (Litecoin), $37,000 (Ethereum), and $45,000 (Monero)

Bitwats designed its crypto miners with the goal of making crypto mining easy and profitable for all, including the newbies. Once these miners are delivered, anyone can start mining simply by connecting the unit to a power socket and accessing it through WiFi or cable, and entering the pool data. Users also have the option of joining Bitwats' own mining pool that has a 0% fee. Also, the company covers the delivery and custom fees for its customers.

To find out more, please visit https://www.bitwats.com

About Bitwats: Bitwats was founded in 2016 by a team of technology leaders with a track record of working for the world's most prodigious companies in the past. Dedicated to bringing the latest crypto–mining technology to the public, the company has recently introduced its exquisite line of advanced ASIC miners. Unlike most other crypto mining hardware manufacturers, Bitwats continuously works towards making crypto mining easy and profitable for all regardless of their experience and knowledge.

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Bombardier’s Worldwide Network of Line Maintenance Stations Expands to its Tenth Location – Geneva, Switzerland

  • New Bombardier Line Maintenance Station in Geneva is the tenth to open worldwide and will provide enhanced service capabilities in Europe
  • Facility is the latest addition to the quickly expanding Bombardier customer service network, which is in the process of growing its footprint by 50%

  • Located at a major hub, the station is set to satisfy maintenance demands of Bombardier's growing fleet of Challenger and Global business jets

MONTREAL, April 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bombardier is pleased to announce the opening of a new Line Maintenance Station at Geneva Airport. This most recent addition further complements the tip–to–tail maintenance services provided by Bombardier's rapidly growing Services and Support network in Europe and worldwide.

Located at Geneva Airpark, Bombardier's new Line Maintenance Station offers customers line maintenance services by highly–skilled technicians who are certified to maintain Challenger 300, Challenger 350, Challenger 604, Challenger 605, Challenger 650, Challenger 850 and all Global series business jets, including Bombardier's flagship Global 7500 aircraft.

"This addition is an integral part of our overall mission to enhance OEM support for our operators in Europe, and we are very pleased to offer our customers turn–key service solutions for aircraft and crew members," said Jean–Christophe Gallagher, Executive Vice President, Services and Support, and Corporate Strategy, Bombardier. "In keeping with our commitment to offer an exceptional customer experience, we are delighted to provide our customers with expanded support in Europe."

The new Line Maintenance Station in Geneva offers customers access to 10,000 sq m (over 107,000 sq ft) of hangar space and is ideally situated adjacent to business aviation terminal C3 and its handling agents. Geneva Airpark personnel also offer premium services such as hangaring aircraft in clean, temperature–controlled conditions, tire pressure checks, oxygen tank refills, fuel tank drainage, and 24/7 cleaning of aircraft interiors.

The new Line Maintenance Station builds on Bombardier's series of announcements regarding enhancements to its worldwide customer service network. These announcements include the expansion of Bombardier's service centre network in: Berlin, Miami, London–Biggin Hill, Singapore and the recently announced new service centre to be built in Melbourne, Australia. Additionally, new Line Maintenance Stations are open to customers at strategic locations in the U.S. and Europe, while new products and services are constantly being developed and released, including the Smart Link Plus connected aircraft program.

As the seventh European Line Maintenance Station and tenth worldwide, the new facility in Geneva joins Bombardier's award–winning network of nine service centres and a total of 30 Customer Response Team mobile units around the globe, all equipped to support Bombardier Learjet, Challenger and Global business aircraft. Since 2017, Bombardier began rapidly expanding its service centre footprint worldwide and is currently on the way to growing its Services and Support infrastructure footprint by 50%.

About Bombardier
Bombardier is a global leader in aviation, creating innovative and game–changing planes. Our products and services provide world–class experiences that set new standards in passenger comfort, energy efficiency, reliability and safety.

Headquartered in Montral, Canada, Bombardier is present in more than 12 countries including its production/engineering sites and its customer support network. The Corporation supports a worldwide fleet of approximately 4,900 aircraft in service with a wide variety of multinational corporations, charter and fractional ownership providers, governments and private individuals.

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TigerGraph Continues to Drive Graph Analytics and AI Market Momentum, Unveils TigerGraph Cloud on Google Cloud Platform and Expanded Global Developer Community

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TigerGraph, provider of the leading graph analytics platform, today announced that the company continues to accelerate the adoption, application, and use of graph analytics on the cloud with broadened support across all cloud providers. TigerGraph Cloud is accessible with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and now, GCP. The company also announced connectors for Snowflake and Tableau, meaning users can access relationship analytics directly from their Snowflake and Tableau dashboards; valuable data insights are now just a few clicks away. TigerGraph made these announcements and shared details about its growing global developer community and more at Graph + AI Summit 2021, the industry's only open conference devoted to accelerating analytics, AI, and machine learning with graph algorithms.

"AI augmentation will create nearly $3 trillion in business value in 2021, with graph being recognized as a foundational capability within today's organizations," said Dr. Yu Xu, founder and CEO of TigerGraph. "Businesses have struggled to capitalize on AI because it requires contextual awareness and an understanding of the data across multiple entities. Graph technologies can answer these critical business questions in minutes, where it takes weeks with other data management systems. Our vision behind hosting Graph + AI is to unite the ecosystem, and we're seeing more of these attendees this year. The fact that there is a 200% increase in Graph + AI Summit registrants "" just six months after the first Graph + AI World event "" speaks to the ever–increasing appetite for graph among today's forward–looking companies."

Expanded Product Functionality

TigerGraph has expanded its product functionality with new TigerGraph Cloud support for Google Cloud Platform workloads. Just two months after announcing a $105 million Series C funding round, the largest funding round to date within the graph database and analytics market, TigerGraph Cloud is now the only distributed graph database–as–a–service available on all three major cloud platforms "" AWS, Azure, and GCP.

TigerGraph's distributed native graph architecture helps organizations scale fast and analyze many different aspects of data to form new models and generate new insights. TigerGraph Cloud users can:

  • Use TigerGraph Cloud for free using free tier instances
  • Preserve their investment in a graph platform that is designed to scale as their business grows
  • Choose their preferred cloud platform for graph workloads (no vendor lock–in)
  • Buy TigerGraph Cloud credits for additional discounts and pay using their pre–paid or committed spend on GCP
  • Connect their TigerGraph platform with other data services and applications, including Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, Tableau, SageMaker, and developer services including Python (PyTigerGraph)
  • Build analytics or machine learning applications with industry use case library of 20+ starter kits with pre–built schema, sample dataset, and queries for all major use cases including fraud, anti–money laundering, entity resolution, customer 360, recommendation, knowledge graph, cybersecurity, network analysis, influencer detection, and others

As transactional and analytical workloads move to the cloud, TigerGraph has become the graph database of choice to connect, analyze, and learn new insights from data. The company's release of new connectors for Snowflake and Tableau (Salesforce) make it even easier for companies to integrate TigerGraph with both upstream and downstream data services. Connector capabilities include:

  • TigerGraph's Snowflake connector, which simplifies and speeds up data transfer from Snowflake data warehouse to TigerGraph
  • Dedicated drivers for Tableau and Microsoft Power BI provide users with a rich capability for no–code analytics and visual dashboarding
  • Standard JDBC and ODBC database connectors provide the foundation for a wealth of integrations

Expanded Global Developer Community

In addition to extending its product capabilities, TigerGraph is listening to its developer community by rolling out new support and services. TigerGraph's Developer Community is a global network for developers that fosters a collaborative, supportive, and developer–centric environment. Developers are invited to join a virtual ecosystem located on TigerGraph's website (community.tigergraph.com) where they can share information, ask questions, and collaborate with developers at all skill levels. While other technology companies rely on their users to share troubleshooting information in their communities, TigerGraph is actively engaged with its product team to interactively answer questions. This ongoing effort is led by TigerGraph's manager of developer relations and liaison to the product team, Jon Herke.

TigerGraph enables developers to work in a team–like environment rather than troubleshooting issues alone without resources. Developers can share the courses they created, hackathon entries, blogs they are writing, and ask general questions about using TigerGraph. Herke runs a daily session on digital distribution platform Discord where developers ask impromptu questions, discuss clever solutions, or simply chat. In fact, other companies and products have replicated TigerGraph's Discord Community due to its success in attracting and maintaining a lively, active developer community.

If you would like to be immersed in the latest TigerGraph ecosystem activities, join the developer relations team on TigerGraph Discord (Developer) Community every weekday at 8:15 a.m. CST to listen in or become active in current open–source efforts including:

  • tgcloud–jupyter – a JupyterLab extension allowing data scientists to interact with TigerGraph services while staying in their data science environments
  • TG–RASA–Pipeline – a data pipeline tool that connects TigerGraph to RASA (chatbot platform) allowing RASA users to have knowledge graph machine learning pipelines
  • pyTigerGraph – a Python connector to TigerGraph allowing users to integrate TigerGraph into their data science workflows or operational services
  • TigerFlow – a flow–based (low to no–code) data pipelining orchestration tool that enables users to drag and drop nodes onto a canvas allowing them to quickly set up data flow that streams into TigerGraph

Expanded Developer Community Event Participation

The strength of TigerGraph's community is on full display at Graph + AI Summit 2021, which features 40+ sessions, live workshops, and speakers from JPMorgan Chase, NewDay, Pinterest, Jaguar Land Rover, and more. The virtual conference, April 21–23, features keynotes, speakers, real–world customer case studies, and hands–on workshops for data, analytics, and AI professionals.

TigerGraph's Graph + AI Summit Web App Hackathon attracted 200 developers from over 30 countries. Participants used one of TigerGraph's 20+ Cloud Starter Kits to design innovative web application solutions on top of TigerGraph Cloud. TigerGraph teamed up with industry leading partners Streamlit (UI dashboarding solution for data scientists), Graphistry (Graph visualization product), and Galvanize (education training company). The winners, both women, will be presenting their projects at Graph + AI Summit: Linxiu Jiang and Qi Chen created Graph Shortest Path & Centrality based on "Airport Dataset: Explore the Graph and Network Analysis for Airports Around the World." TigerGraph's Web App Hackathon developer participants have remained actively involved with the TigerGraph Developer Community even after contest results were announced.

New "Graph–Powered Analytics and Machine Learning with TigerGraph" Book

TigerGraph is also announcing the early–release version of its O'Reilly book, "Graph–Powered Analytics and Machine Learning with TigerGraph." This practical guide shows data scientists, data engineers, architects, and business analysts how to get started with a graph database using TigerGraph.

The early–release version includes multiple chapters with hands–on exercises that will teach readers how to combine machine learning with graph. Readers can run the exercises on TigerGraph Cloud free tier and other free tools. Readers will also receive additional chapters throughout 2021.

To access the early–release book version, visit: https://info.tigergraph.com/oreilly–book

For more information on Graph + AI Summit and to view the agenda, please visit: https://www.tigergraph.com/graphaisummit/#day1

Register and secure your complimentary spot: https://www.tigergraph.com/graphaisummit/

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About TigerGraph
TigerGraph is a platform for advanced analytics and machine learning on connected data. Based on the industry's first and only distributed native graph database, TigerGraph's proven technology supports advanced analytics and machine learning applications such as fraud detection, anti–money laundering (AML), entity resolution, customer 360, recommendations, knowledge graph, cybersecurity, supply chain, IoT, and network analysis. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA. Start free with tigergraph.com/cloud.

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Offleash PR for TigerGraph
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