The selective cultivation of bacteria by incorporating chemicals in the media depends on supplying a substance which either stimulates the growth of the species to be isolated or inhibits unwanted species. Tetrathionate is a good selector of Salmonellae in faeces culture, and is believed to act in both ways. Tetrathionate reducers, such as Salmonellae, flourish in broth containing it, whereas a...

The emergence of Web 2.0 technologies has moved our social activities online, and revolutionised the way we meet people and how we communicate with each other on a day-to-day basis. In turn, this has developed new platforms for artists to create and present work in, to network with other practitioners, and for participatory work to flourish, with opportunity for worldwide collaborations. Online...

This paper argues that challenges faced when implementing a nation brand can be better understood and visualised through a simulation approach. A conceptual model of the collective learning process triggered by branding is formulated and its properties are investigated through a Monte Carlo simulation. The implications of the model are illustrated through two different branding projects in the ...

The considerable value of CRM is well documented in the literature, and it is further exemplified in today’s highly turbulent, competitive, and fragmented markets. Nevertheless, the conceptualisation and operationalisation of CRM remains an area of intense debate, and hence, by reviewing and synthesising literature from the various relational research traditions, the chapter offers a critical p...

Immune suppression associated with morbillivirus infections may influence the mortality rate by allowing secondary bacterial infections that are lethal to the host to flourish. Using an in vitro proliferation assay, we have shown that all members of the genus Morbillivirus inhibit the proliferation of a human B-lymphoblast cell line (BJAB). Proliferation of freshly isolated, stimulated bovine a...

Ineffective strategies of communicating about organizational change (e.g., corporate restructuring, mergers, downsizing) are earmarked by the presence of pervasive rumors that flourish in a climate of uncertainty. Using 15 structured field interviews with management and public relations personnel from multinational corporations, this article posits that successful programs of change communicati...

There is a need for new metaphors from immunology to flourish the application areas of Artificial Immune Systems. A metaheuristic called Obesity Heuristic derived from advances in obesity treatment is proposed. The main forces of the algorithm are the generation omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. The algorithm works with Just-In-Time philosophy; by starting only when desired. A case study of data...

With the rapid development of e-commerce, online transactions are becoming more and more popular, which causes the flourish of logistics industry in turn. But the high rate of returning has become a great challenge to companies, thus leaving floor to considerations of the effects of reverse logistics. Starting from the connotation and characteristics of the reverse logistics in e-commerce, the ...

“Cloud computing” gradually flourish, a wide range of distributed storage systems are increasingly diverse, Like of Gluster, Ceph, Lustre, as well as Hadoop, etc.. In this paper, we propose a personal cloud storage system Integrated with pNFS, it can be accessed in parallel for scalable performance. Besides, data backup and failover mechanism are designed. We expect that the function of the pro...

Factory farming continues to grow around the world as a low-cost way of producing animal products for human consumption. However, many of the practices associated with intensive animal farming have been criticized by public health professionals and animal welfare advocates. The aim of this essay is to raise three independent moral concerns with factory farming, and to explain why the practices ...