This research examines critical success factors that influence the ERP systems implementation in a Middle-Eastern country and compares the results with findings in South-East Asia. Four critical success factors (top management support, teamwork and composition, enterprise-wide communication, and project management program) were recognized and employed to gather practical evidence. Moreover, org...

Nutrient runoff from the Everglades Agricultural Area resulted in a well-documented gradient of phosphorus concentrations in soil and water, with concomitant ecosystem-level changes, in the northern Florida Everglades. It was recently reported that sulfate-reducing prokaryote assemblage composition, numbers, and activities are dependent on position along the gradient (H. Castro, K. R. Reddy, an...

• EPI MAESTRO, Sophia-Antipolis: Eitan Altman, Coordinator, Senior Researcher (Direciteur de Recherche) at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis. Has been working on economic modeling of the Internet as well as on the interplay between information technology, culture and society [1, 2]. Expert in networking, game theory and music composition. Graduated in the Composition Department of Tel-Aviv University, and...

Here, we summarize the composition and uses of Schizosaccharomyces pombe media and discuss key issues for consideration in the generation of S. pombe cultures. We discuss the concept of "culture memory," in which the growth state and stress experienced by a strain during storage, propagation, and starter culture preparation can alter experimental outcomes at later stages. We also describe the t...

A revised enzyme synthesis rate expression for cybernetic models of bacterial growth is presented. The rate expression, which is comprised of inducible and constitutive contributions, provides for a basal enzyme level that is necessary to predict certain types of commonly observed continuous culture transients. The response of a continuous culture to a step change in feed stream composition is ...

There is increasing demand for automated and quantitative cell culture technology, driven both by the intense activity in stem cell biology and by the emergence of systems biology. We built a fully automated cell culture screening system based on a microfluidic chip that creates arbitrary culture media formulations in 96 independent culture chambers and maintains cell viability for weeks. Indiv...