ERIC is an important component of the U.S. Department of Education’s dissemination activity. It has been a source of innovation, and is a powerful tool that supports a range of user services. However, largescale adoption of the Internet into the program has lead to a fragmented ERIC that finds its greatest value, service, marginalizing its biggest product, the ERIC database. This chapter examin...

The presence of enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) sequences was demonstrated for the first time in the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis; these sequences have been found in transcribed regions of the chromosomes of gram-negative bacteria. In this study genetic diversity among clinical isolates of M. tuberculosis was determined by PCR with ERIC primers (ERIC-PCR). The stu...

This study aimed to characterize Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in 2 intensive care units in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. P. aeruginosa isolates from patients' and staff hands and environmental samples were typed using antibiotyping and ERIC-PCR. In Egypt, isolates from suction apparatus tubing and drainage containers (A7) and AV tubing (A8) were linked to those from patients who had these antibiot...

This study evaluates the effectiveness of three different molecular techniques, repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR (REP-PCR), enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus sequence PCR (ERIC-PCR) and the random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD-PCR) for rapid typing of Photobacterium damselae ssp. piscicida strains isolated from different species of marine fish and geographic areas. The resu...

1 We thank Alejandro Manelli, Lones Smith, Peter Sørensen, Len Mirman, Eric Balder, Nicholas Yannelis, Mark Machina, an associate editor, and two anonymous referees, and seminar participants at Illinois, Wisconsin, Arizona, Arizona State, Alabama, Western Ontario, Paris, and at the Southern California Economic Theory Conference at Santa Barbara, Society for Economic Dynamics 2000, Fall 2000 Mid...

It has long been accepted within the information technology (IT) research community that IT should have a profound impact on industrial organization. However, there has been as yet on the changes to be expected in the design of firms or industries; rather, there is an apparently inconsistent collection of conjectures and analyses. We are now able to offer an integrative framework for describing...

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background and objective : the genus xanthomonas is composed of phytopathogenic bacterial species. in addition to causing crops diseases, most of the xanthomonas species especially xanthomonas campestris produce xanthan gum via an aerobic fermentation process. xanthan gum is, an important exopolysaccharide from xanthomonas campestris, mainly used in the food, petroleum and other industries. the...