SYDNEY, Jan. 25--AsiaNet/InfoQuest DBM APPOINTS... PHILADELPHIA: DBM, a global human capital management andtransitions firm, has announced the appointment of John J."Jack" Gavin as President and Chief Executive Officer,effective immediately. http://www.dbm.com CITATION TRACKER... AMSTERDAM: Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citationdatabase of research information and quality Web sources, hasannounced the Scopus Citation Tracker, a new feature availableto all subscribers that enables researchers to easily evaluateresearch using citation data. http://www.info.scopus.com http://www.news.scopus.com http://www.sciencedirect.com http://www.mdconsult.com http://www.elsevier.com http://www.reedelsevier.com NEWISYS DISTRIBUTOR... AUSTIN: Newisys, a Sanmina-SCI Company and leading developerof enterprise-class server and storage designs, has announcedthe appointment of Avnet Computing Components, a business unitof Avnet, Inc., as its distributor in Australia and NewZealand. http://www.sanmina-sci.com http://www.newisys.com http://www.avnet.com PHARMACEUTICAL JV... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.: Quintiles Transnational Corp.announced that it has signed an agreement to join a jointventure to commercialize pharmaceutical products in the AsiaPacific region. http://www.quintiles.com EUROPEAN CAPITAL... PARIS: European Capital, S.A. SICAR announced it hasinvested euro 13 million (US$16 million) in the mezzaninefacility of Poliris, the leading French online publisher ofreal estate housing listings for real estate agencies. http://www.americancapital.com http://www.EuropeanCapital.com http://www.seloger.com http://www.immostreet.com WESTINGHOUSE SALE... WARRINGTON: British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) announced thatit has selected Toshiba Corporation, the highest bidder, as thepreferred bidder for the sale of Westinghouse ElectricCompany. SECOND TERM... LEHIGH VALLEY: Tom Johnson, vice president of Air ProductsSan Fu in Taiwan, has been elected for a second term aspresident of American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Taipei byits Board of Governors. www.airproducts.com RESEARCH AGREEMENTS... MILAN: Eurand, a specialty pharmaceutical company, announcedthat it has signed research agreements with the University ofMilan (Italy) and the University of Sassari (Italy) to evaluatea new class of analgesic compounds. http://www.eurand.com ALLOPTIC INTRODUCES... LIVERMORE: Alloptic, Inc., a global leader in thedevelopment and deployment of Gigabit Ethernet Passive OpticalNetworks, the most widely deployed next generation accessnetwork solution, have announced the availability of theindustry's first redundant Gigabit Ethernet Optical NetworkTerminal the Xgen6000. http://www.alloptic.com INDIA BASE... MUMBAI: Checkpoint Systems, Inc., the leading provider ofradio frequency-based product identification and shrinkmanagement solutions for retailers and consumer package goodsmanufacturers worldwide, has announced the opening of itsIndian subsidiary, Checkpoint Systems India Pvt. Ltd, andshared its plans for the Indian Market. www.checkpointsystems.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)